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First Taste: Txikito

With Txikito, Alex Raij has carved a small corner of west Chelsea into an outpost of northern Spain.
11.19.08
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First Taste: West Branch

While most celebrity chefs wrote New York’s Upper West Side off as a hostile culinary wilderness, Tom Valenti strode in and claimed it as his own.
11.18.08
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First Taste: Bouley

If you can’t afford a trip to France right now (and who can?), the next best thing is a trip to the new Bouley.
11.17.08
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First Taste: The Publican

This restaurant is a place of worship for perfect mollusks, housemade sausages, and, of course, beer. Yet what tops them all is the crisp, juicy chicken.
11.14.08
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First Taste: Honey Bee Bakery

Cupcakes are overexposed. Cupcakes are overwrought. Now let me tell you about the breakfast cupcake I’ve recently come to love.
11.14.08
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First Taste: Tom Tuesday Dinner

In this quirky restaurant, Tom Colicchio has created a perfect dream: small, comfortable and unpretentious.
10.31.08
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First Taste: More Cupcakes

I’m going to call a moratorium on writing about cupcakes. Right after I finish writing about a cupcake shop called More.
10.30.08
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First Taste: Animal

This tiny neighborhood bistro is a full-on salute to pork, and that doesn’t seem to bother the owners of the kosher bakery next door.
10.21.08
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First Taste: Drink

This sparse space is the perfect backdrop for the mixology show being swizzled, shaken, and poured by John Gertsen and his team.
10.16.08
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First Taste: Tarry Lodge

Joe Bastianich and Mario Batali have looked to the suburbs and transformed this historic building into a warm, sparkling restaurant.
10.13.08
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