Just had lunch at Wayfare Tavern for Anita’s birthday (Happy Birthday Anita!) and we all loved it. The mac and cheese was rich and creamy, and the foie gras was, well, let’s just say the duck’s miserable life left four people happy. The steak and eggs was very comforting, the burger being one of the [...]
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The more I visit 5A5 Steak Lounge, the more I love it. I just went for happy hour. My favorite is their Kobe beef sliders. How many places let’s you choose how well/rare you want your sliders cooked? Their truffle fries – always a good choice. Oyster shooters with diced watermelon at the bottom of [...]
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I had the urge to splurge a little during my lunch hour so I had lunch at Globe. Anita and I went for their pork sausage and spring onions pizza, and surprisingly, we really enjoyed it. (I’m pretty picky when it comes to pizza!) It’s better than where we usually get our pizza in the [...]
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The first thing I thought after we finished lunching at 5a5 Steak Lounge was, that was a damn good burger! We all ordered our Kobe burgers medium, fearing that medium-rare would cause the patty to crumble, but when it came, it was red enough to be medium-rare but without it falling apart. It was nice [...]
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Aqua has been running a “business lunch” promotion and recently extended the offer, giving me the opportunity to check it out. A two-course meal for $20.10. The meal is set and you can’t choose what you want. I don’t know if it changes daily but when I went, the starter was an asparagus salad, which [...]
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We celebrated Andy’s birthday during lunchtime at Palio D’Asti. Another decent meal here. Their Pesce del Giorno (fish of the day) was halibut. It was on the dry side. Their Risotto del Giorno (risotto of the day) was pork. Not bad. Their Pizza Siciliana with Berkshire pork fennel sausage has always been our favorite of [...]
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I had a great meal at Wexler’s, in celebration of my birthday. (Thanks Andy, Anita and Candy!) We kicked off with a “Bowl ‘o’ Red”, which is a Texas-style chili with short ribs. It’s not your average chili – it’s even better. We all got a sandwich, and nothing disappointed. The Fulton Valley chicken, the [...]
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It’s about time a sit-down Korean restaurant opened up in the Financial District. After all, John’s Snack & Deli can only handle so many people at a time. Stone Korean Kitchen took over the Japanese restaurant Oishii Embarcadero, which I’m glad is gone because it was just not worth it. While Stone Korean Kitchen is [...]
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I had lunch with Anita at Bund Shanghai in Chinatown. In addition to our usual soup dumpling (小籠包) and noodle soup order, this time being the eight treasure noodle soup, we also got their pan-fried dumplings, or in Chinese, sheng jian bao (生煎包). It was amazingly good. It was moist and crispy at the same [...]
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I was just at Broadway Cafe in Chinatown last week and decided to go again this week, this time taking advantage of their Monday lunch specials: broccoli beef or black pepper sauce chicken steak for $4.75. I went with the latter. The chicken steak was pretty big – crispy and all sauced up. Add spaghetti [...]
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