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Dinner at Kori

Kori’s exterior and interior of the dining room

Kori is a small, narrow, elegant Korean restaurant in TriBeCa. If you read their menu, they serve mainly traditional Korean fare but a few dishes does cater to the neighborhood.

They plating them a bit more polished and comparing to a couple of [...]

Dinner at Cherrywood Kitchen

Cherrywood Kitchen: Menu, Interior, and its namesake sangria with the housemade foccacia

Cherrywood Kitchen is a new restaurant that’s on Hudson Square or the far west part of SoHo on Spring Street. This restaurant has the potential to serve good food in a place that generally a food wasteland.

The space [...]

Matilda Restaurant

Some of the interior

I have grown a fondness and respect Mexican cuisine ever since I went to Cabo last summer. I do admit, I don’t normally make my way out to Alphabet City of East Village but a friend suggested heading out to Matilda.

Matilda is a small, family owned [...]

Dinner at Jo’s in Nolita, NYC

Interior of the dining room; Glasses of Anne Pinchon Rosé and The Narcissist

Jo’s is not a stranger to me, as I’ve eaten and written about this restaurant almost three years ago. Thinking back what I ate then and compared to what I had a few nights ago, the interior didn’t change [...]

Pounds & Ounces in Chelsea, NYC

Exterior, Interior & Drinks

Pounds & Ounces is located in Chelsea. This bar and restaurant looks like an Art Deco-inspired bar that looks quite handsome, especially when night sets in. The dining area is dark wood with an interesting boxing mural and dotted with two lounge tables with plush leather chairs.

While [...]

Dinner at Fishtag in the Upper West Side

A week or so ago, I had dinner with a friend at Fishtag, a Michael Psilakis restaurant. This was the former home of Kefi’s original location (also owned by Chef Michael Psilakis).

The difference between that restaurant and Fishtag was the more airier space, making me feel a bit calmer and [...]

101 Taiwanese Cuisine, Flushing, Queens

Menu, Interior and tea with edamame served on the side

On a recent Saturday, a friend and I went to Flushing, Queens for grocery shopping. Starving and craving for something different than dim sum, we thought of having Taiwanese food. My friend suggested 101 Taiwanese Cuisine as there’s word around that it’s [...]

Toby’s Public House, Nolita, NYC

Toby’s Public House: Exterior, Wood fire brick oven and menu

Over this long weekend, I visited Toby’s Public House in Manhattan’s Nolita for brunch with a friend.

It’s relatively new location, as they expanded from their South Slope, Brooklyn location. Inside is a rustic, homey kind of restaurant where there’s dark [...]

Dim Sum at Grand Restaurant

On the morning of Chinese New Year (which was Sunday, February 10th) my family and I carried on the tradition of having dim sum as the first important meal of the new year. We chose Grand Restaurant due to my mom’s curiosity of this place. This restaurant is located in the [...]