FOREST HILLS, NY – Everything is turning up aces for New York City restaurant maven Tim Ducey, owner of the newest, hottest tavern in Queens, Acey Ducey. With wildly creative spins on typical American comfort food classics as well as modern dishes reflecting more upscale tastes, Acey Ducey is so much more than just a place to come watch the game and have a few...
[Editor’s Note: We interrupt Jay’s series on Casa de Campo…again…for another installment of his Golf Rum Diaries, this time on Cabo del Sol (Part 1). The Casa series will conclude shortly, further continuing his analysis of golf in the Mexico/Caribbean/U.S. Offshore/Central America region. In the meantime, here’s the first piece on Mexico...
We interrupt this sports page for another NYC restaurant review! “I changed everything,” Shelly Fireman told the New York Post’s Steve Cuozzo. He’s right – he changes everything for the worse, and now Redeye Grill is a mere shell of itself, pardon the pun. I often celebrated my life victories at Shelly’s famous Redeye Grill on 7th...
KEW GARDENS – Year in and year out, Forest Hills wins myriad accolades as New York City’s best neighborhood. The vibrant restaurant scene blends with hip yet sensible fashion, gorgeous Tudor architecture, and the highest level of safety for its residents in the entire city. But what about Kew Gardens, the idyllic sleepy sister of Forest Hills just a gap...
The only thing that surpasses how noisy, filthy, and empty Galik Ambarson’s “My Kitchen” restaurant is would be how much of an odious, despicable, drunken, violent, homophobic, morally bankrupt douchebag he is. As you might remember, he had many months of being not only a C rated restaurant from the NYC Department of Health, but one of the worst...
Charl Schwartzel, thank you for introducing us to South African BBQ and “Monkey Gland Sauce.” (Hat tip: Steve DiMeglio) “An iced seafood display kicks off the meal and includes shrimp, lobster, oysters, King crab legs and the aforementioned Jumbo lump crabmeat, all ready to be topped with an assortment of sauces. International cheeses and crudite is...
FOREST HILLS, NY – Forget the hockey player from Pittsburgh, the Italian video game character from Donkey Kong, and the former governor of New York, the real Super Mario is Mario Savvas, restauranteur extraordinaire from Forest Hills, because the hits just keep on coming at Nick’s Greek Bistro. Now Mario, Uncle Andy, Singh Jerry, and all the gang at...
FOREST HILLS, NY – There’s a new Mario dominating the food scene in New York City, so move over Mario Batali, you’ve got company at the top of the food chain. Meet Mario Savvas, restauranteur and bon vivant, and his Nick’s Bistro on Metropolitan Avenue in Forest Hills is giving both Manhattan and Astoria a run for their drachmas. In Spanish...
We interrupt this sports website for another New York City restaurant recommendation. Real New Yorkers know that there are many diamonds to be mined in the outer boroughs, but no region of New York City rivals sparkling Forest Hills, perennially the winner of the “best neighborhood” awards by nearly unanimous consensus. Tennis, golf, parks, dignified...
We’ll be live from the media tent at Bethpage Black for the 2009 U.S. Open starting Monday, with coverage at Cybergolf.com, GolfObserver.com, and here, (on a 24-hour delay for articles that originally ran at those two sites, and live with random short features and interviews). GolfObserver will shortly be running my hole-by-hole breakdown of the course as well...
Since I’m the hometown boy this year for the U.S. Open, the press gang are looking to me for recommendations. So channeling my best Marty Hackel, just with food, not clothes, we’ll review restaurants during down time before the U.S. Open…like Tuesdays…and PGA National Week…and Redstone…and TPC Nawlins, (Geaux Aints!). Today, park...
James Bond’s genius armorer, the legendary Q himself, would have trouble keeping up with the rapid-fire ingenuity and resourcefulness that Jean Gmerek and her sister-in-law Vesda demonstrate in their inventive Thai-Asian fusion menu. Rightly famous for their creative dishes, tony Forest Hills digs, and reasonable prices, Q Thai caught the eye of A-list foodie...
Bella Alle! That’s what grateful ragazzi e bellisime say to Italian ex=pat and now proud American Alessandro Speroni for opening the Sole Luna Cafe in San Diego, California. Hungry U.S. Open patrons who love Italian food and cappucino should run not walk to his cafe on Ash Street in the downtown quarter, especially if they are fans Italy’s worlds champion...
For something a little different today, let’s talk NYC restaurant reviews. After all, man cannot live by golf alone, frequently there must be dinner…and a beverage. That and I guess I’m channelling a little Patricia “Golf Girl” Hannigan today. On Saturday, Becca Schack and I did our best “Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen”...
As the old agage goes, in New York City the idea is not to find the great $60 steak, but to find the great $16 dollar steak. Well did I ever find one of the best values in town for Mexican…yes, in-deedy (or should I say Holy Frijoles?) Meet Gonzalez y Gonzalez, a corner-of-Broadway-and-Houston restaurant offering the freshest ingredients, the most inventive...