The Highliner

The next morning – a bright, unseasonably warm Sunday – found me really craving brunch.  It’d been a while since I’d had brunch (as you can see by that tag, which is used mostly by TT), but I’d recently read about The Highliner on Tasty Eating.  Perfect for its proximity to both DLS’s apartment and our next stop, Chelsea Piers for the batting cages!  (And I now have video of me hitting 5 balls in a row!  No editing required.  I fouled them all, but I still hit them!)  A brisk walk down the Highline and we decided to sit [...]

Num Pang (Fall 2011)

Last month, CT took a random Monday off from work. Since she works up in Stamford, she obviously doesn’t have even half of the lunch options that we have in Manhattan. When she has the rare weekday off, she likes to take full advantage of a lunch she otherwise would normally not be able to get. On this day, she decided to make a return visit to Num Pang since she liked it so much last time and they had some new menu additions. Since I work nearby and it was a slow day in the office, I joined her. [...]

Eisenberg’s

After our quick bite post-Vinitaly, Beer Boor mentioned this place nearby that he described as “old school and very good” – so of course I wanted to go there.  Plus I’d been standing and drinking wine for about 4 hours at this point and I REALLY wanted to sit down, and he seemed to still be hungry.  Beer Boor used to visit Eisenberg’s “when [he] worked at Yahoo” – a phrase you hear a lot when you hang with Beer Boor as much as I did – since the office was only a few avenues away.  After browsing the menu, [...]

Crook’s Atrium Cafe

Whimsy would be my middle name, had I an English middle name.  Perhaps I’ll name my daughter that… In any case, I recently got a huge bug in my butt to leave town for a few days.  I’ve not been on any trips in about a year, and I’m the type who likes to travel a few times a year – locally (road trips) and farther (cross country and beyond), so I packed up my stuff, threw Keywee in the car, and headed off into the sunrise.  Of course, how do you pick a destination when you’re rather poor, you [...]

Sunswick 35/35

I’m not in Queens very often, and when I am it’s typically food- or beverage-related. So when I can combine the two, well, heck, why not, right? One place that doesn’t let me down has a rather easy address to remember, and it’s easy to find its corner of Astoria. Sunswick 35/35 is situated at the corner of 35th Avenue and 35th Street, just a few short blocks from the subway. If it looks dark inside, that’s because it is; I apologize in advance for less-than-stellar photographs as a result. Rotating up to 25 taps, Sunswick is generally regarded as [...]

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