The Soft Serve Fruit Co.
June 27, 2011 by BeerBoor
Filed under American, Americas, Around NYC, By Name, Cheap Eats, Cuisine, Desserts, Feisty Fun, Manhattan, Restaurants, The Beer Boor, Upper East Side
New York City, Manhattan especially, sports hundreds of boring, and in some cases terrible frozen yogurt and no-fat dairylike concoction places. What if there were a similar concept, but a completely different taste and texture, to choose instead? Recently Yvo and I represented The Feisty Foodie on the Upper East Side at The Soft Serve Fruit Co., (probably) New York’s first soft-serve fresh fruit location. It’s laid out like virtually every frozen yogurt place, but of course with a huge difference: it’s all fruit puree, organic cane sugar, and a bit of water. As such, it’s fairly low in calories, [...]
Top Ten Pastry Chefs in America 2011
June 20, 2011 by BeerBoor
Filed under Feisty Fun, The Beer Boor
Recently ICE hosted Dessert Professional’s annual awards ceremony, honoring the ten best pastry chefs in America. The Blind Baker covered this event in three parts last year, so yep, as Yvo’s not a huge fan of sweets and had another event to attend, she could only stop by for a short time, so I picked up the slack and made the huge sacrifice to eat my way through their confections. With some time before the ten winners were introduced, we were able to wander through the kitchens as the chefs and their teams set up for the onslaught. Here, Yoni [...]
Convivio (Closed)
April 7, 2011 by Feisty Foodie
Filed under Around NYC, By Name, Cuisine, Europe, Manhattan, Midtown, Restaurants, Seafood
Oh, Convivio. As I mentioned previously, after Matsugen and Lily O’Brien’s, I headed over to Convivio to meet up with the ladies of FBM for dinner. We’d made plans to have dinner there during February so we could eat the old menu with the new chefs after the ‘divorce’ – yes, Michael White and Chris Cannon split their restaurant partnership, and unfortunately, Convivio, my favorite of the group that I’d visited thusfar, wound up with Chris Cannon, who’d hired new chefs. Rumor was that the old menu would remain until post-February, when a new menu would be introduced, showcasing the new chef’s [...]
Craft Bar: Restaurant Week, Winter 2011
February 17, 2011 by Feisty Foodie
Filed under American, Americas, Around NYC, Bistro, By Name, Cuisine, Manhattan, New American, Restaurants
My BFF recently asked if I wanted to have lunch and gave me a list of ideas where we could go. (Ironically, perhaps, when I eat with friends, I generally refuse to pick a place because I feel responsible if the place sucks.) One of the ideas she mentioned was Restaurant Week. I mention this every time I write about Restaurant Week: I never make a point of going each time it rolls around, but someone inevitably asks me to hang out during that time and suggests it. I’m agreeable so I tend to wind up going to at least [...]
Sour Cream Lime Pound Cake
January 5, 2011 by BlindBakerNYC
Filed under Baked Goods, BlindBakerNYC, Desserts, Uncategorized
New Year’s Eve means different things to different people. For some, it’s not New Year’s Eve if it’s not spent in Times Square. For others, nothing is more horrific than spending December 31st with a huge group of drunken strangers in the bitter cold or in a club/bar. Count me among the latter; I vastly prefer socializing in smaller, more intimate gatherings, and I’m also A-OK with spending time alone. Which is how I rang in 2011 … with a lime pound cake. I happened to have a bottle of organic lime juice (yes, a bottle! It’s actually pretty decent- [...]
