Usually the words “Blue Ribbon” don’t conjure in my mind a very high-class image.  I think instead of the watery but much-beloved Pabst Blue Ribbon, which kept me and Liz nice and tipsy throughout our college years.  Note that PBR was actually cheap and hickish back in Tucson; in New York, it carries with it [...]

Liz, Chris and I have been searching for a halfway-decent Mexican restaurant in New York for going on three years now, as you might know if you’ve been reading our other Mexican food reviews.  I’m pleased to announce that we may have found the answer to our prayers in Tacos Matamoros Restaurant.  A fairly new [...]

One of the awesome things about living in the South Slope/North Sunset Park/Greenwood Heights area is the abundance of Mexican cuisine.  It took us a while to get used to it, coming from Tucson where Sonoran, Oaxacan and Mexico City style Mexican food is the norm.  Here in Brooklyn, the restaurants offer not the refried bean-and-cheese [...]

Beet (or beet, in that stylish lower-case style so many restaurants seem to be adopting these days) is a chic, beautifully designed Thai restaurant that is as narrow as a hole-in-the-wall joint, but looks like a stylish lounge.  Indeed, with the large selection of liquor, this wouldn’t be a bad place to hang out on [...]

Perhaps it wasn’t in the stars that we would have anything resembling a good time on the fateful evening we ventured to Sahara East.  We chose this East Village hookah bar as our very own Chris’ birthday celebration location, and on paper this place seemed to offer quite the time. What better place to ring [...]

One of my favorite new places to get coffee is Café Sutra, and not just because it’s close to home. Okay, it’s mostly because of that. But it’s still a pretty sweet place. The decorations and drink names revolve around Hinduism, and though the place is freakishly narrow, the decorations make the most out of [...]

De Guerreros Taqueria is an offshoot of the popular taco stand contained within the Guerrero Food Center across the street. Locals so adored the little pockets of heaven known as Guerrero’s tacos that, despite the owners continuing to run the counter taco stand at Guerrero, business is already bustling at the tiny new taqueria as [...]

So Chris and I decided to get some Indian food one night, as we are wont to do. We went down to Indian Alley/Curry Lane/Hindi Heights, i.e. 6th St., and surveyed the options. Everyone has their favorite, but I remembered liking Gandhi, which is larger, aboveground, and slightly cheaper than the other venues.We sat down [...]