Restaurants Near Bowery Ballroom
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Freemans
Freeman Alley, New York, NYOur obsession with Freemans is truly an Immaculate Infatuation. This is a classic, and it’s worth the inevitably long waits – if even just for the famous artichoke dip.
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Freemans
End of Freeman Alley, Lower East Side, NYIt’s painful going back and reading a lot of the reviews I wrote two and a half years ago, especially this one. Freemans was not only the first review ever written for this website, but my first stab at a restaurant review period. There was nothing Immaculate about my writing skills back then. Although its [...]
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Torrisi Italian Specialties
250 Mulberry St., Nolita, NYRestaurants like Torrisi are the reason that we spend all of our free time eating and writing about food. If you enjoy consuming as much as we do and aren’t held down by underdeveloped taste buds, allergies or religious beliefs, you’re going to love Torrisi Italian Specialties. By day, Torrisi is the best new sandwich [...]
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Café Habana
17 Prince St., Nolita, NYAn amazing little place that’s worth the wait. Quite possibly the coolest eatery in New York City.
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Rubirosa
235 Mulberry St., Nolita, NYLately we’ve been hearing a whole lot of buzz about how Nolita is officially the new “it” neighborhood in New York for restaurants. I suppose we’re even guilty of helping create some of it. Also, note that I just used the term “it” neighborhood, which means we have officially jumped the shark. You might as [...]
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Osteria Morini
218 Lafayette St., SoHo, NYIf you read this website regularly, you are already aware that we’re Michael White junkies. Homeboy makes our favorite pasta on the isle of Manhattan. We’d rather eat at one of White’s fine establishments – Marea, Convivio, Alto and now Osteria Morini – than at a Batali joint any day of the week. So you [...]
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apizz
217 Eldridge St., Lower East Side, NYQuite possibly the best Date Night restaurant in town.
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Five Points
31 Great Jones St., NoHo, NYOne of the most reliable and universally likeable restaurants we’ve been to, coming through in the clutch time after time.
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Il Buco
47 Bond St., NoHo, NYEven some of the hottest restaurants have empty tables on “off” nights, but the fact that Il Buco is routinely slammed is a testament to the quality of the food and the unique character of the space. You won’t find another place in town quite like this.
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Parm
248 Mulberry St., Nolita, NYWe already know that the fellas behind Torrisi run our kind of restaurant and serve our kind of food, so it’s not big surprise that we love Parm, their new Italian sandwich shop. Simple Italian food is a lost art in NYC. You might find chicken parmesan, baked ziti and mozzarella sticks at your sh*tty [...]
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