Grub Street Sidewalk Tables map

200 of their favorite restaurants with sidewalk cafes.

Andrea Strong's Brunch Recommendations

Always on the quest for a good brunch spot? Check out Andrea Strong's list.

Check out the recipe for The Smith's poached eggs on potato waffles here. they're DELICIOUS!

Public Grilling in the City

The Kitchen has a roundup from the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation on where you can legally grill in NYC's public parks. below is the list of manhattan spots.

East River Park - Along FDR Drive at E. 10th Street
Fort Washington Park - North of W. 158th St. on the Hudson River
Highbridge Park - W. 177th Street and Amsterdam Avenue
Inwood Hill Park - Dyckman Ballfields at Dyckman Street & Hudson RiverMarcus Garvey Park
- 124th Street at 5th and Madison Avenues
Morningside Park - Morningside Ave. & W. 121st St.
Randall's Island - At the far end of Sunken Meadow ballfields
Riverside Park - West 145th Street on the Hudson River
St. Nicholas Park
- St. Nicholas Terrace at West 128th Street, and
- St. Nicholas Avenue between W. 133rd -135th Streets
Thomas Jefferson Park - First Avenue between E. 111th-114th Streets
Wards Island - East River & Hell Gate (near the children's playground)

Back with a Cheesy Post

In heat like today its hard to think about stinky cheese, but there is a festival coming up dedicated to just that. there will even be a stinky cheese eating contest! June 22, 11am-5pm.
Gothamist
Grub Street

Pizza Delivery in the Park

Daily Candy has the scoop on a great idea. Apparently Slice will deliver their organic pizza pies to Central Park. order at 212-249-4353 or on the web and meet the delivery guy at 72nd and 5th or Sheep's Meadow (66th-69th near the beach volleyball court entrance. Perfect for an impromptu picnic!

Foodie Walking Tour of Bleecker Street

The Kitchen has an excellent self-guided walking tour of Bleecker Street which covers some prime butchers, a cheese shop, bread shop, pastry bakery and specialty stores. Foodie heaven.

The Big BBQ

As summer is coming upon us its time for Madison Square Park's Big Apple BBQ, one of my favorite weekends of the year. For this 6th annual Big Apple BBQ Block Party (June 7-8), some of the best pitmasters from around the country will converge on the park to smoke up some of their best. This event is usually packed, so I highly recommend buying a Fastpass which will allow you to get on a shorter express line so you can try out everything. BBQ is meant to be enjoyed with friends anyway, so if you don't think you can stuff yourself with $100 worth of BBQ split one.

Ben & Jerry's Free Cone Day TODAY!!!

The Ben & Jerry's at 104th & Broadway, Macy's Herald Square Food Court, Rockefeller Center, 41 3rd Ave. and in Time Sq (680 8th Ave) will be giving away free cones today. I actually have no idea why, but who cares!!! via Gothamist

Shack Hours Extended

Its that time of year... the shake shack has begun its extended summer hours. the shack will now be open from 11am-11pm.

Delivery to your Door

New York offers the ultimate convenience with everything you could ever want within a block. But if you're too lazy to even leave your home. Gothamist covers some of your best delivery options. Besides the obvious seamlessweb for restaurant delivery, they highlight Wakozi a delivery service that seems to specialize in liquor store delivery and allows you to peruse inventory, and maxdelivery which has an impressive array of stores ranging from supermarkets and drug stores to dvd's and including some New York specialty store favorites such as Murray's cheese shop, Sugar Sweet Sunshine Bakery, and Sullivan Street Bread Bakery. Throw in freshdirect if you actually feel like doing some cooking, and you're all set!

Now you never need to leave home.

Gourmet Free Bar Snacks Roundup

Grub Street has a roundup of free bar snacks of a slightly higher standing than the cheese and crackers at McSorley's or the hot dogs at Rudy's.

Brooklyn Restaurant Week

March 24th through March 31st is Brooklyn's Restaruant Week. A 3-course meal is $23.00. More than 175 restaurants are participating.

Foody

All White Castle locations are giving away two free sliders to anyone who comes in between 1 and 2 a.m. this Sunday, in honor of daylight savings time. via Grub Street

Lombardi's, Naples 45 and Zero Otto in the Bronx made Forbest Traveler's list of best pizzerias in the country.

There'll be an erotic cooking workshop at sex toy purveyor, Babeland in Soho Sunday night.

Wowee Whoawee!

A new Shake Shack is coming to the upper west side. Lucky bastards, first a new Magnolia's and now this? Danny Meyers discusses his reasons here.

Dessert Truck Battle!

Tonight an epic battle goes down in front of the Whitney in honor of the first night of the Biennial. The Treats Truck and Dessert Truck will be standing off for 5 hours! via Eater

Savory on Video

Grub Street points us to Savory New York's web site that has online videos of tours of great New York Restaurants given by their proprietors.


Check out their video of Blue Hill, and once you're completely enticed, sign up for the actual tour of the grounds where the food is grown and raised, given by chef and co-owner Dan Barber. At $195 it seems expensive, but given the price of a meal at Blue Hill its actually not so bad.

Homemade Hummus Class

The New York Times says:
The finer points of making hummus will be taught by the chefs of the Hummus Place chain on Sunday from noon to 1 p.m. at the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam Avenue (76th Street). Reservations: (646) 505-5708. A tasting of hummus will be held from 1 to 3 p.m.

From 6 to 7:30, there will be a tasting of Israeli wines. All events are free.

I Dream of an Africa...

Time Out New York has a roundup of African restaurants in the city. Now THAT sounds like some excellent exotic food. There seems to be a lot of focus on this cuisine with the newcomer Merkato 55.

In the Cheese Caves

Gothamist takes a tour of Murray's cheese caves and finds the experience interesting and pungent. Tours are offered on the third Saturday of every month for $10 (including a tasting of two cheeses). Sounds like a great deal!

Foody

Author and TV personality Anthony Bourdain discusses the New York restaurant scene with Fodor's. You can also see him here kicking it with Eric Ripert (Le Bernadin) after a stint back in the kitchen at his restaurant, Les Halles, for his TV show No Reservations.


AM New York covers the top tasting menus in the city.