I recently discovered a great new outdoor hotspot. One hot Friday afternoon I was skimming through my Time Out New York magazine looking for a casual place to sit outside and have a drink and a snack. I stumbled across The Frying Pan and decided to head over there and try it out. Turns out [...]

I went to brunch at Serendiptiy 3 last weekend. The Upper East Side hot spot has been around for ages and seems to be as popular as ever. It is a great place to take out of town guests as long as they are willing to wait for a table. The restaurant opens at 11 [...]

If you are under 35 and live in New York City there is no reason why you shouldn’t be enrolled in HipTix. It is this great FREE program that gets people under thirty-five $20 tickets to all of the shows the Roundabout Theater company puts on. For those of you who haven’t shopped for Broadway [...]

I met an old friend at Malatesta for brunch last weekend and was very impressed. It is a small Italian restaurant in the West Village. I have never been to Italy, but I imagine that this is what the restaurants there are like. It was nothing short of fabulous. Malatesta is fairly far over on [...]

Ninth Avenue between 42nd Street and 54th Street is a Thai food mecca. For some reason that I have yet to understand, Thai restaurants pop up and flourish all along this stretch. That being said, it can sometimes be hard to choose which one to stop in if you are in the mood for Thai [...]

New York is a brunch town. What often makes brunch even better is the ability to drink early in the day without judgment. Some restaurants have embraced this idea fully, and offer to accompany your pancakes or eggs with unlimited amounts of the booze of your choice. Puttanesca, an Italian restaurant on 56th Street and [...]