Even before my first trip to New York, I was somewhat obsessed with Bleecker Street. It all started while I was in college, studying visual communications. A very famous illustrator who probably made pretty good money was a guest speaker at my school. During his talk, he dropped the fact that he lived on Bleecker […]
Why I love Hersh’s in Baltimore Maryland. When I was much younger, Baltimore was a pizza wasteland. Sure, restaurants touting their nightmarish “fresh dough” pizza were all over the place, and yes, I ate my share of it, always hoping to find a slice that actually tasted good. The whole ‘fresh” dough thing was quite […]
In a recent blog post we highlighted some of the best gluten-free restaurants in New York City, now it’s Washington DC’s turn. As we mentioned in that post, eating gluten free is important to Jeni and me because our 3-year-old daughter has to eat gluten-free. So we know, all too well, how challenging it can be to […]
Modern “urban Italian” cuisine in a not-so-modern space Wm. Mulherin’s Sons has been around for a long, long time. The building dates back to the 19th century, when it operated as a whisky blending and bottling facility on the corner of Front and Master Streets. It wasn’t until only recently, when the ROOST Apartment Hotel brand chose to […]
The Shaw eatery opens with pizzas fashioned after the original colonies. The same restaurateur who brought us presidentially-themed eateries Lincoln and Teddy & the Bully Bar has created another edible ode to American politics: Declaration, now open in Shaw. The 52-seat restaurant from Alan Popovsky pays homage to the founding fathers with thin-crust pizzas (why not?), which represent the 13 colonies that […]