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We had a date with Team America. The movie. And the best part? It was a sing-along. Those of you who know the words to some of the songs in that movie probably understand: that’s bound to be a lot […]
Being in Pleasantville for a showing of Casablanca at the Jacob Burns Film Festival, we decided to give the new wine bar, Battonage, a try. It’s a nice alternative to the other restaurants in town, which are either pubs or […]
We got takeout barbecue for supper from Townline BBQ. You may remember Townline from such trips to Amagansett as 2009!
For our dinner out for the girls’ weekend, we went to South Edison in Montauk. It’s nice to finally have a casual, farm-to-table beach restaurant that doesn’t kill you with the bill, but surprises you with the food. We loved […]
Our friends Janet and Jerry finally got the chance to come over and see the Farm. After a quick tour and some drinks on the porch, we headed down to Cafe Barcel, where the food was as good as the […]
My favorite lunch spot in Amagansett, Clam Bar. Sometimes, like on this trip, we head there before we even go to the beach. Pooky enjoys her soup:
Louie & Johnnie’s Cheesesteaks and Clam Bar is a little like a booth on the boardwalk at the Jersey Shore: you can get cheesesteaks, raw and cooked clams and a very handsome order of fries. These are the “Housemade Mikey […]
Boulud Sud, Daniel Boulud’s latest restaurant, is devoted to the flavors of the Mediterranean. It’s on the Upper West Side, and so a great place for a pre-theater dinner before a show at Lincoln Center. The rabbit porchetta, below, is […]
Heirloom tomatoes, terrific chicken. Another winner.
What’s this you say? Fancy Chinese? In Westchester? Yes, the folks behind Lolita in Greenwich, which SCF fans may remember from a couple of summers ago, have opened a similarly hip, fun restaurant in Purchase (of all places) and, as […]
SCF fans might remember chef Andrew Carmellini from our trip to Locanda Verde a while back and also from this piece of mine on the future of dining in Arrive mag (which was nominated for best magazine feature by the […]
We just never have a bad meal at Barcel. Here, the whole branzino. Just deli shy.
We so enjoyed our lobster roll at Brooklyn Flea earlier in the day, and we couldn’t stop thinking about it. So after some hand-wringing (should we drive there? what is the traffic’s bad? what if it costs us another hour? […]
Caroline Fidanza was the chef who put Diner and Marlowe & Sons, two pioneering Brooklyn restaurants, on the map. After leaving those restaurants, she opened a new one with two partners, Elizabeth Schula and Rebecca Collerton. Saltie is a tiny little […]
My friend and former colleague Mary Lynn and I met for lunch at the Wobble Cafe in Ossining. I’ve written about it a thousand times, but never actually had the chance to go until today. Ham, brie and some other […]
We adored our lunch at ABC Kitchen. You just feel like you’re dining in New York. Something about it — the local farm-to-table menu, the relaxed but beautiful setting, the here-and-now feeling of the food — just make you feel […]
Our dinner at Harvest on Hudson was for a Restaurants We Love column for The Journal News, so I won’t go in to too much detail here. Instead, you can read the article over at LoHud.com on this link here. […]
Another fun trip to Tarry Lodge, by the request of Sarah. Kelli and Patrick star, too.
We noticed a lot of restaurants in old gas stations in Charlottesville — all over the place, really. The novelty of dining at one was appealing, but not if the food wasn’t tempting, too. At Zinc — yes, in an […]
After our tour of UVA and downtown Charlottesville, we were ready for a little pick-me-up. A Cherry Lime Soda and a seat at the soda fountain at Timberlake’s Drugs was, if you’ll excuse the saying, just what the doctor ordered.
Greg wins hands down on this one. He went for the BLT with artisan bacon from Nodine’s Smokehouse. I lost. Big time. I went for the biscuit and sausage gravy. On a 90-degree day. What, exactly, was I thinking? It’s […]
Dinner at Peter Chang’s China Grill was reason enough to come to Charlottesville. And I’m sorry to disappoint — especially since this is ostensibly a food blog above all else — but I must confess that it was not because […]
We had some rather bad luck at 202 Market, a restaurant in Roanoke, Va. that the local press has deemed worth of 5 stars. I feel bad for Roanokers if this is really the best restaurant in town. While the […]
July 6, 2011 was our 10th anniversary. Yikes! Time flies! We headed into town for a little celebration. Lunch at Public House, a farm-to-table casual restaurant in Chattanooga’s Warehouse Row shopping center. The beaming bride: No good photos of hunna […]
Some of the most revolutionary cooking in the country is going on in a tiny restaurant off Route 81 in rural Virginia. And frankly, it’s hard to imagine it could happen anywhere else. At Town House in Chilhowie, Va., chefs John […]
Sampling the menu at the new Fig & Olive in Scarsdale. A fun place!
Though we would have preferred to share a bottle of rosé around cocktail hour, while people watching and nibbling on French snacks, we had less than 24 hours in Philadelphia, so for our visit to Parc, we had to settle […]
I had no idea what I was in for. I’d never been to Tinto, the tapas restaurant owned by superchef Jose Garces. I’d never met one of the dinner guests. So how was I to know that by the time […]
Chef Michael Solomonov won the James Beard Award for Best Chef Mid-Atlantic this year, and now that I finally had a chance to taste a few of his dishes, I can easily understand why. His food at Zahav, his modern […]
The Bedford Post Inn is most famous for being owned by Richard Gere and his wife, the actress Carey Lowell. There are luxury rooms, two restauarnts, a yoga studio, a beautiful garden and patio and an events space. But even […]
My husband, Greg, and I are co-founders of SCF, which chronicles what we eat, drink and grow as we raise our daughter on a tiny plot of land in the Lower Hudson Valley.
