I love the green roof at City Tap, and the abundant outdoors space and fire pits, even the spacious inside. I have to tell you though, that while they advertise a lunch special, their lunch waitstaff is slow on the draw, and won’t mention it to your first. So I’ll tell you. $10 for a [...]
Posts Tagged ‘pizza’
5 Aug
Pizza at Roberta’s, Brooklyn
If you happen to ever frequent Bushwick (Brooklyn) you have to stop by Roberta’s. A former garage with a great outdoor space, Roberta’s bakes their own bread and pizzas in a wood fired stove, grows their produce on the roof, and uses old shipping containers to create extra “rooms.” And the pizza is pretty damn [...]
4 Aug
Easy Asparagus and Mushroom Tart
Asparagus languishing in the refrigerator. Shitakes sitting unused. A hungry me, and a desire to combine the two. I took this recipe from epicurious.com and and tweaked it just a little bit. I substituted a whole wheat pizza crust (thank you, KitchenAid!) for the puff pastry and substituted some yogurt with lemon zest and a [...]
13 Apr
Garces Trading Company with the girls
Sometimes you just need a girls afternoon – a sunny day with maybe an out-of-town friend on a surprise visit and nothing to do but play. I got one of these delightful days and it corresponded to the opening weekend of Garces Trading Co., the new casual dining/gourmet food store by Jose Garces. The line [...]
20 Apr
Osteria
It was Senor Lanky’s birthday, and in keeping tradition with our trip to Vetri last year, we decided to go to Marc Vetri’s newest restaurant, and winner of the 2008 James Beard Foundation award for Best New Restaraunt, Osteria. Located in a large building with soaring ceilings on North Broad St., Osteria has a more [...]
