As if Thanksgiving weren’t gluttonous enough, December 1st is National Pie Day! What better way to kick off the holiday season than by stuffing your pie hole with even more pie? Everyone knows that the best way to stay warm is to make sure to eat enough…and of course, drink enough! Which we will all have a great excuse for [...]
1. Welcome to the next chapter of gimmicky revolting food: cupcake-flavored vodka. Produced by Cupcake Vineyards Wines — according to Village Voice, “the U.S.’s fastest growing $8+ wine brand in 2010″ — the vodka comes in four yummy flavors: Original, Devil’s Food, Frosting and Chiffon. Mmmm, delicious. 2. In related news, artist Miriam Simun last week opened New York’s first [...]
One of the few things that makes the 5th floor walk-up studio worth the $1500 you pay for it is the sheer number of restaurants, cafes and bars littering the street just outside your window. For us here at Poor Taste, that means freedom from the tyranny of $25 entrees and $15 drinks. Always on the lookout for a deliciously [...]
1) Well, this is awful and enraging. Janet Kim, commis chef at the restaurant Gordon Ramsay at The London NYC filed a complaint with the state for sexual harassment, citing, among other abhorrent activities, that she was groped, called a whore, and propositioned for oral sex. The restaurant was founded by Gordon Ramsey but has since been handed back to the hotel. [...]
You and your friend and fellow photographer Kate are driving through the south, en route to New Orleans for a high profile cookbook photo shoot. You’ve been driving for a while now. Unsubtle hunger pangs suggest you to find the closest open restaurant and sit down to your first meal of the day. You pull into a greasy spoon a [...]
1. Making pizza in New York is dangerous business. Mark Iacono, owner of Lucali pizzeria in Brooklyn, found out firsthand last week when he was stabbed by a man with alleged connections to the mob. Benny Geritano, an ex-con who has been in and out of jail, and whose stepfather was close to John Gotti, stabbed Iacono outside his famed [...]
1. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you should have seen this coming. The newest New York trend, ladies and gentlemen, is the grilled cheese. Right on the heels of Gorilla Cheese and The Queens Kickshaw, Morris Grilled Cheese Truck will be rolling out at the end of May. With bread from Grandaisy and Balthazar and cheese from Saxelby [...]
Even in New York, being in an inter-dietary relationship can be challenging. Or maybe it’s challenging precisely because we’re in New York: whether you’re a meat eater or abstainer, being with a dietarily different significant other means that you miss out on the vast majority of culinary experiences that the city has to offer. But there’s good news at hand. [...]
1. In perhaps the most urgent news update of the week, President Obama ate dinner! Here, in New York! At the hip, yet low-key, upscale Southern joint Red Rooster! Clearly he’s been keeping up with the Times’ Style section. FYI, he had braised short ribs, lobster salad, cornbread, chocolate cake, and sweet potato doughnuts. The political implications are mind-boggling. 2. [...]
I had come to Gajyumaru at the recommendation of my friend Alex, a foodie and a serious Japanophile, who had conspiratorially informed me that he “knew a guy who knew a guy” who had discovered a “real” Japanese place in a very odd location. It was like I was in on a secret drug deal. When I visited Gajyamaru for [...]
