BITE will keep you in touch with what I’m eating and what I love and what I left on my plate. I’ll share dialogues I have with heroes and divas, princes and barracudas and what I overhear from the next table. Not every day will I have a meal worth writing about, I suspect, not good enough, not bad enough. Dear friends have asked me if I could try to be meaner so I fit in better on the net. I intend to try. As any man who has lived with me will tell you, I was born to be a critic. Of course, isn’t it the critic who has the thinnest skin of all? I must admit to a certain anxiety. It’s been a long time since I wrote without an editor, a fact checker and a copy-reader to catch my errors, misspellings and typos. I apologize in advance. I’m left-handed and that can sometimes be confusing. I might have stopped reviewing restaurants twenty-five years ago when my first novel, Blue Skies, No Candy lingered on the best seller list. But I am addicted to instant gratification. So I’m still here. On my death bed, I am sure my last words will echo those of the sister of Brillat Savarin:
“Bring on dessert.”
August 14, 2019 | BITE: My Journal
Seaside Escape
It’s Nice to Have Someone Along with the Same Accent in a Foreign Country...
August 5, 2019 | BITE: My Journal
Shun
The lush summer taste of my chilled corn veloute comes rushing back...
July 29, 2019 | BITE: My Journal
River Café
Occasionally dinner is a rare and
delicious indulgence...
July 22, 2019 | BITE: My Journal
Unforgettable Chanterelle
A stylish Sally Bowles gets up from a handsome writing desk to greet you…
July 16, 2019 | BITE: My Journal
Not so Innocent Times
I was asked to choose the ten most important restaurants of the four decades…
July 8, 2019 | BITE: My Journal
Best So Far 2019
Here are places that I discovered this year where I’m sending my pals…
June 30, 2019 | About Gael
Drifting: What I Ate
It’s a taco joint that moved into the space where
Sugar and Plumm used to be…
June 24, 2019 | BITE: My Journal
Little Spain Diner
I fear getting lost in Nordstrom’s while
trying to
find dinner...
June 17, 2019 | BITE: My Journal
Born-Again Pastis
Tonight’s crowd is dressed in everything from clinging gowns to rompers…
June 3, 2019 | BITE: My Journal
701 West
A cocoon of
sound-muffling blue velvet,
full
of
promise...
May 27, 2019 | BITE: My Journal
Terrace Edition
Almost everything on the menu tempts us to order more than we should...
May 20, 2019 | BITE: My Journal
Paladar Brazilian
"What's new uptown on the East Side?" I asked Google ...
May 13, 2019 | BITE: My Journal
Fairway 74th Street Café
That left room for an innocent crush on Fairway’s David Sneddon…
May 6, 2019 | BITE: My Journal
Avena Downtown
Finally I spot it behind a formidable barricade…
April 29, 2019 | BITE: My Journal
Il Divo
Sweeping through the velvet curtain is like entering another world…
April 15, 2019 | BITE: My Journal
Standard Grill
Rocco is in the kitchen. Can Anna Wintour
be
far behind?
April 8, 2019 | BITE: My Journal
Mercado Little Spain
Andrés had not yet grown into the
feeding hero of catastrophes...
April 1, 2019 | BITE: My Journal
Feroce
Devotedly Italian with pastas graded DOP, made locally in Italy…
March 18, 2019 | BITE: My Journal
Lights On: Hudson Yards
I got to explore, get lost and taste a free steak last Tuesday…