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Scenes from Chinatown: Odd Produce and Buckets of Crabs
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Do you shop in Chinatown? We're always intimidated by the markets there. The produce is often unfamiliar, and a language barrier doesn't exactly help. But we snapped some pictures while walking alon...

NYC: Still Time to Join a CSA in Chelsea

Was joining a CSA on your to-do list this spring? As we head toward August, most CSA slots in New York City have been sold out for months, but we have a find for you this afternoon. If you didn't fi...

NY Note: Bar Basics and Mixology Classes at the Astor Center

We're confident in our abilities to make a pretty gosh-darn good cocktail, but our creations look pretty humble when compared to the potables from the mixology wizkids at NYC's poshest bars. They brin...

NYC Best Food Stores: A Foodie Walking Tour of Bleecker Street

Whenever food-loving visitors come from out of town, we take them to our favorite markets and restaurants. And we're always sure to lead them on a foodie walking tour of Greenwich Village's Bleecker S...

NYC Store Review: Pearl River

Don't these plates look like the AT squiggle? We think so. There is plenty to buy at Pearl River besides plain, white plates and bowls. But those are always what we end up taking home. Click below f...

Store Review: Bonnie Slotnick Cookbooks

We admit it. We have a cookbook addiction. Our bookshelves are overflowing, and yet we keep buying them. In New York, our favorite place to feed that delicious addiction is Bonnie Slotnick Cookbooks. ...

NYC Store Review: Buon Italia in Chelsea Market

Last week we sang the praises of Arthur Avenue, that bastion of authentic Italian food in the Bronx. Today, an option for those of us living a little farther south. Buon Italia is just one small store...

Wine Store Review: Best Cellars

For the casual-yet-discerning wine drinker, perusing the jumbled aisles at the liquor store can be an antiseptic and uninspiring experience. And yet it's easy to feel intimidated and tongue-tied when ...

New York City Store Review: Russ & Daughters

Store Review: New York Cake & Baking Supply

This store is not unlike the act of baking itself - slightly messy, occasionally overwhelming, but ultimately satisfying in the sweetest way. On our last visit, we overheard the following conversa...

Integral Yoga Natural Foods: New York

If you live or work in Manhattan you've probably walked by it a hundred times. You may have even popped in to pick up the odd bunch of organic chard or carton of soy milk. But for those of us who l...

NYC: Where Do You Buy Your Coffee Beans?

Gorilla Coffee and Ninth Street Espresso are two of our favorites in New York City. Where do you buy your beans?...

The Strand Book Store Annex: New York, NY

Don't miss the inspiration for cooks and deals on books pinched between the office towers of Wall Street. The Strand Book Store Annex on Fulton Street sells a mess of discounted cookbooks, food memo...

Westside Market: New York, NY

A good jack-of-all-trades grocery store is vital. While Manhattan's Westside Market is not as elegant as some stores or as cheap as others, consider Westside Market as an everyday efficient way to ma...

Art of Cooking: New York, NY

The Art of Cooking is Manhattan's cook shop boutique. Look for the best here, darling: Rosle tools, Emile Henry bakers and All-Clad cookware. A dining table just inside the door, is always set for th...

Myers of Keswick: New York, NY

Molly the cat brought international attention to Myers of Keswick, a British food shop in the West Village. "Let Meow-ut" purred The New York Post while Myer's mouser was stuck inside a wall of their...

Western Beef: New York, NY

Another grungy New York City icon is gone. Western Beef supermarket recently moved from West 14th Street to West 16th Street and lost its personality in the process. In its old location, Western Bee...

Bowery Kitchen Supplies: New York, NY

Don't let the name confuse you. While Bowery Kitchen Supplies does maintain a "to the trade" location on the Bowery, their main retail operation is in the Chelsea Market. Bowery Kitchen Supplies se...

Ronnybrook Farms: New York, NY

Going to the dairy seems so retro, but just take a taste of the milk from Ronnybrook Farms and I bet it will become a part of your future. Ronnybrook's milk tastes seriously better than the grocery s...

MoMA Store and Muji

Museum stores aren't top of mind when it comes to shopping for kitchenware, but don't forget about the MoMA store, the retail arm of the famous New York modern art museum. The store charges itself to ...

Gourmet Garage: New York, NY

Who moved Gourmet Garage's cheese? For the past month or so, they've been offering some decent discounts on one kind of cheese each week. Last week it was imported English Stilton for $8.99 a pound, t...

Bottlerocket Wine & Spirit

Are you confused about food and wine pairings? Do you look at wine store shelves with blank stares and utter confusion? Fret no more because Bottlerocket Wine & Spirit is a new store that will solv...

Korin Japanese Trading Co.

Here's something sharp... This find in Tribeca "carries everything from high quality knives to fine porcelain china," is a "little cramped inside" but has "really interesting merchandise with a wide ...

Vintage New York

This review just in from Molly... "We fell in love with New York wine when in college upstate. Now we're starting to get that tingly feeling again – but this time, we're falling in love with Vintage ...