Eat. Drink. Live.
Anniversary, sort of? Just, Sam at her grammy’s with her cousins, nice chance to go out. Dinner. With cocktails. Out. At a restaurant! It’s funny coming from me, who, over the past 10 years has probably eaten at thousands of […]
A second round of this cool event, the lohudfood crawl. As I wrote on lohud.com, about 30 guests joined Megan and me for a guided tour of four great restaurants in Nyack. A moveable feast of sorts! Here’s the scene. […]
What a pleasure to discover a local craft brew pub in Dayton, Tennessee: Monkey Town Brewing! We stopped by to pick up a growler, and chose Road to El Dorado: Batch 3, an American saison. The tasting notes on the web site say […]
I tasted the Chinese food of dreams, the quality of which is hard to come by even in New York, at a pan-Asian sushi joint in Port Chester. The occasion was a tasting menu to introduce the press to a new chef, […]
We at lohudfood recorded our most recent podcast at Roc N Ramen, where we discovered some jaw-droppingly good pork buns. Seriously, these have some crazy secret ingredient that makes them irresistible! Owner Wayne Carrington wouldn’t reveal it, but we took […]
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Megan and I got a little tasting of a new restaurant about to open in Nyack: Sixty5 on Main. Here’s a link to the podcast where we talk about it: lohudfood cast. Related posts: Wooden Spoon, New Rochelle Saturday Night […]
Lunch with Megan at the bar at Wasabi. We shared: Yellowtail-jalapeno: Popcorn shrimp: Tuna-avocado roll: Tuna strawberry roll. (One of my faves.) Delicious! The 411 on Wasabi. Related posts: Sushi at Wasabi in Nyack Dinner at Wasabi: Sushi at Last! […]
The malawach is a good bet at the Art Cafe. Delicious — and quite filling. Related posts: Back at the Art Cafe in Nyack Lunch at Art Cafe in Nyack Lunch at Art Cafe in Nyack Shakshooka at Art Cafe […]
Megan and I recorded the lastest food cast at Taqueria La Picardia, one of our favorites in Port Chester, and reminisced about Megan’s taco tour through the Lower Hudson Valley and Liz’s hunt for the best artisanal bread. Listen to the […]
The annual Burger & Beer Bash by Westchester magazine. A good time for all. And we did a live podcast from the grounds. Here’s a link to the podcast! Ned! Related posts: Westchester Burger Company in West Nyack Bobby’s Burger […]
Tasting the burger that will be at the burger & beer bash! + recording some of the footage for “Chefs Read Mean Yelps.” Turkey wrap. And fun with snapchat: Related posts: Bobby’s Burger Palace: This Burger is Crunchified! Bobby’s […]
Couple random photos here. Not quite sure why I did not photograph the pizza at Martio’s, which is what we ordered, nor why I only have photos of food from the Ambulance Brew House. But here’s the link to the […]
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Lunch — and a podcast — today at The Boathouse in Ossining. (Listen to the podcast on lohud here.) Lobster roll. Delicious! Fried clams. Also yummy. It was my first time at the restaurants, so I took a lot of snaps […]
A day walking around Ossining, and I discovered some very delicious food. Super great Jerk Chicken and one of the best emapanada I’ve ever had. Both are mentioned in the roundup of the best things I ate this week over on […]
This bahn mi will change your life. It’s served, not at an authentic Vietnamese restaurant, or from a street vendor. But at an adorable (maybe even a little too twee) cafe in Katonah, N.Y. I present the Katonah Reading Room. […]
Another podcast recording, another winner of a restaurant. I can’t believe we’ve never been here; it’s a classic. Steamers, crusty bread. So garlicky and delicious. CHEESE-STUFFED ARTICHOKE! It’s such a throw-back and so good. Half rack of ribs. The signature […]
A little secret garden in Tarrytown! We recorded our lohudfood Cast in this adorable coffee shop this week, and discovered a real gem at Muddy Water Coffee & Cafe. The coffee was great, the setting is cozy and there’s a […]
Longtime SCF fans will remember our visit to Jake’s before it moved. Well, it new and improved, and still cranking out a very fine pizza pie. What an nice welcome to Minnesota. Related posts: Jake’s Stadium Pizza: A Last […]
Some killer, killer sandwiches at this new spot in Eastchester. Lou Bridley, a former chef from Fortina opened Mason Sandwich Co because, as he told Megan, the menu is the kind of food he likes to eat. Her story here: […]
A new series getting off the ground at lohudfood: neighborhood guides! Megan and I spent the afternoon reporting on several great must-hit spots in Dobbs Ferry, including The Parlor, The Cookery, Harper’s, and, one of my new favorites, the Dobbs […]
One of our favorite restaurants in Rockland is Roost. Chef Kevin Reilly is so very talented — his food bursts with flavor, and is always expertly executed. Tonight’s dinner was no exception. Longtime SCF fans may remember our many, many […]
bartaco is a cute little spot in Port Chester — the first of a chain of taco joints now found up and down the East Coast. They serve expert margaritas and mojitos, and a small menu of “tacos” and “not tacos.” […]
A new little pastry shop and espresso bar opened in New Rochelle last year. It’s been all over — literally all over — my Instagram feed. So when Megan and I went to New Rochelle to record our podcast at […]
The lohudfood team — that is, Megan and I — have started a podcast. We started it out in the office, but we found out quickly that the show is much more interesting if we record it at a local […]
A super cool event for lohudfood this evening: the lohudfood Crawl. We partnered with four local restaurants, all within walking distance from one another in Harrison. We planned out a four-course meal, and invited guests to be part of our […]
The lohudfood cast gives us a great excuse to get out and try the newest places on the food scene. Here we are at Exit 4, the new food hall that opened in Mount Kisco. Asian chicken salad Mushroom pizzs: […]
We love Maura’s Kitchen, the Peruvian restaurant in Nyack. We hadn’t been in quite a while, either. It was good to be back. A passionfruit margarita: The obligatory pisco sour: This is the first time we’d tried the salmon causa […]
Chicken sandwiches are taking over New York. I wanted to see what the fuss was about. At least at one famous spot. So after Picassso, Bill, Derek and I headed to Fuku, the casual David Chang spot on 56th Street. […]
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.
