Well, E & I figured it was time to hand out a review of something new, so we looked down the list of recent restaurant openings for one that struck our eye. Matilda was the one this time. It’s located down in alphabet city, and is an intriguing sounding blend of Tuscan and Mexican [...]
Entries Tagged as 'The Alex'
Matilda – The Alex
November 6th, 2007 · No Comments · Restaurants, The Alex
Tags: alex kobak·Burrata·italian food·matilda·mexican food·Restaurants·The Alex
Le Tub – The Alex
October 30th, 2007 · No Comments · Restaurants, The Alex
Down in Florida this weekend to attend the wedding of Julie Silver, a family friend (a lovely wedding btw) and to visit my Grandma (92 and going strong). We had a 8pm flight home on Sunday so while relaxing by the pool in my grandma’s building in Hollywood, I utilized the magic of the iPhone [...]
Tags: alex kobak·burger·florida·hollywood·le tub·Restaurants
Red Hook Ballfields & Optional Staircase – The Alex
October 22nd, 2007 · No Comments · Restaurants, The Alex
This weekend was the last of the season for the Red Hook soccer vendors – a collection of tents serving Central American cuisine adjacent to the soccer fields in Red Hook, so E, our friend Michele and I made a date to head down and check it out before they closed for the season. There’s [...]
Tags: ·brooklyn·central american food·Huaraches·mexican food·red hook
Chelsea Royal Diner – The Alex
October 17th, 2007 · No Comments · Restaurants, The Alex
So a quick playful one today. This past weekend E and I went up to her parent’s summer house in New Hampshire to help close things up for the season. On the way back to the city Sunday we met up with one of her high school friends Sarah and her husband Dan for dinner [...]
Tags: alex kobak·brattleboro·diner·new hampshire·Restaurants·The Alex·vermont
Osaka – The Alex
October 12th, 2007 · No Comments · Restaurants, The Alex
Out in Brooklyn last night looking at a potential apartment (no go – nice building but I’m not sure where they got their 1200 sq/ft measurement from, the place was tiny!), but we love the hood (cobble hill) so it only made sense to try some local food. I was in the mood for sushi, [...]
Tags: brooklyn·cobble hill·japanese food·osaka·Restaurants·sashimi·sushi
Jaleo – The Alex
October 11th, 2007 · No Comments · Restaurants, The Alex
Saturday in DC we had the pleasure of a visit from my father-in-law Mac, who was nearby on business so of course it would be criminal not to come visit little Stewart. This in turn meant a visit to the nicest restaurant in town that we felt was baby friendly. Enter Jaleo, a DC tapas [...]
Tags: Baby·jaleo·Restaurants·spanish food·stewart·tapas·washington dc·wine
Guapo’s – The Alex
October 6th, 2007 · No Comments · Restaurants, The Alex
Down in DC this weekend visiting Rob and Alison (sister in law) and really more importantly, our six month old nephew Stewart (on the right here obviously). Yesterday was Rob’s 31st, so after we arrived, they bolted to have a nice grownup meal, and in a very Freaky Friday vibe, we became the parents with [...]
Tags: Baby·guapo's·mexican food·Restaurants·stewart·washington dc
Artisanal – The Alex
October 6th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Restaurants, The Alex
Hot on the heels of my Babbo review will come a flashback quick review on Artisanal (sorry, with the wedding, the honeymoon, getting back to work, and never having written a blog before, I’m a bit slow on this – I promise I’ll get better and you’ll get some more really live and current reviews [...]
Tags: artisanal·artisinal·cheese·fondue·french food·Restaurants·wedding
Babbo – The Alex
October 3rd, 2007 · No Comments · Restaurants, The Alex
As I promised – more restaurant reviews!!! Last night we went to Babbo (Mario Batali’s used to be flagship (now he’s got Del Posto which is more upscale) restaurant), which many people might consider the best Italian food in new york, Myself among them – with caveats. It’s definitely not a traditional “italian” restaurant – [...]
Tags: babbo·batali·italian food·Restaurants
Mini-Moon Day 6 – The Alex
September 22nd, 2007 · No Comments · Restaurants, The Alex
Boy I hate mornings, but regardless up we were at 7:30 to take a walk down to the ocean for a morning swim. I was rather annoyed an unnerved by the unnecessary and unasked for *2nd* wake-up call from the hotel two minutes after the first. A little surprising given how well everything else was [...]
Tags: ·bahamas·bobby flay·caribbean·casino·gambling·mesa grill·Mini-Moon·the cove·water·wedding
Mini-Moon Day 5 – The Alex
September 21st, 2007 · No Comments · Restaurants, The Alex
Slept in a bit this morning, that was nice. Eleanor got up early to go exploring along the beach. I eventually rose, and went to lay out by the pool at Cain and read in the sun until Eleanor was done exploring.
She got back and we headed off to Mosaic (the upscale buffet at The [...]
Tags: bahamas·bobby flay·caribbean·casino·compass point·conch·gambling·mesa grill·Mini-Moon·the cove·water·wedding
Mini-Moon Day 4 – The Alex
September 20th, 2007 · No Comments · Restaurants, The Alex
So this morning we checked out of Compass Point and said our fond farewells to head over to it’s antithesis – the mega-resort Atlantis. I’ll admit, as nice as the secluded and calm environs had been, I was ready for the change of pace to the tourist activity mecca that we’d visited the other day. [...]
Tags: bahamas·caribbean·casino·compass point·conch·dune·gambling·jean-georges·Mini-Moon·ocean club·the cove·water·wedding
Mini-Moon Day 3 – The Alex
September 19th, 2007 · No Comments · Restaurants, The Alex
Well, we woke up this morning and it was still raining, but not heavily, and thankfully it started to clear fairly early (while we started up this blogging, so now I’m actually writing live on Wednesday night, the rest of the entries have been written today as well – is that cheating?), so we immediately [...]
Tags: bahamas·caribbean·compass point·conch·Mini-Moon·water·wedding
Mini-Moon Day 2 – The Alex
September 18th, 2007 · No Comments · Restaurants, The Alex
Boy, you’d think after how hard it was raining last night the sky would be empty. No such luck. It was actually raining harder this morning. This time with intense thunder and lightning. On the positive side I’m feeling about 90% recovered. But here we discovered the flip side of being in a small isolated [...]
Tags: atlantis·bahamas·caribbean·craps·gambling·Honeymoon·Mini-Moon·nobu
Mini-Moon Day 1 – The Alex
September 17th, 2007 · No Comments · The Alex
Boy did I come down from the wedding hard. About 20 minutes after getting home from dinner at Artisanal Sunday night (review to be situated in our soon to be constructed restaurant section – although our meals in the Bahamas will be dual-situated (just as soon as I have the time to figure out how [...]