Brooklyn: Brooklyn Heights
Posted by Carey Jones, December 7, 2009 at 11:00 AM
[Photos: Robyn Lee]
We've gone all over Manhattan, but now it's time to head out to Brooklyn in search of the best chocolate chip cookie. After our customary preliminary taste-offs, we've done a blind taste-test of our favorite cookies all over the borough.
While we've had plenty of lively office debates about the merits of different chocolate chip cookies, this was the first week we had a true consensus. The winner was unanimous. The second-place cookie was also a unanimous vote—and every taster decreed it a very, very close runner-up. Third and fourth place? Also unanimous. It made for a very interesting blind test.
The contenders: Jacques Torres, Almondine, The Chocolate Room, Cocoa Bar, Baked, Pennylicks, Bklyn Larder, and Colson Patisserie.
The good, the burnt, and the gooey—plus a surprise bonus round!—after the jump.
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Posted by Kathy YL Chan, June 30, 2009 at 2:00 PM
This city is flooded with blueberry muffins. Plain ones, sugar-dusted numbers, big ones, itty bitty ones, and others still, paired with everything from bran to corn. We loved some, hated others, and passed on a few. Our conclusion? There's one we can honestly call "the best" and many others which are simply great and worth a detour. In the end, blueberry muffins, like most sweets, are totally subjective. Taste is personalized, so we've made sure to included seriously delicious muffins on all ends of the spectrum.
Where to begin? See the list after the jump for our picks for the city's finest blueberry muffins.
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Posted by Barbara Hanson, September 11, 2008 at 11:45 AM
When I first started writing about New York food markets for Serious Eats, I asked friends to recommend stores for me to explore. Three-quarters of them answered: Sahadi’s. Well, I thought, no need to go there if everyone knows about it. Then, one of those friends brought bags of Sahadi’s goodies to the house that we share at the Jersey Shore. I sampled the hummus, which was fantastically creamy and nutty. I bit into a sweetly hot Peppadew pepper. Then, I stuffed the hummus into a Peppadew. I caved. To Sahadi’s I went.
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Posted by Ed Levine, June 13, 2008 at 6:15 PM
At Serious Eats New York, we love movies almost as much as food, so it's no surprise that we love the idea of the second annual NYC Food Film Festival, which begins tomorrow night at Water Taxi Beach.
Food film festival organizers George Motz and Harry Hawk have found movies about many foods close to every serious eater's heart, including pizza, cheesesteak, and currywurst. They'll be serving up what they've found for an entire week, along with thematically appropriate food that promises to be way better than that stale popcorn and fake butter you get at most movie theaters.
On Tuesday June 17, they're taking their act to the parking lot next to Grimaldi's under the Brooklyn Bridge to screen pizza movies and, of course, eat pizza. After the jump check out the festival's trailer. I promise it will make you hungry.
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Posted by Ed Levine, December 6, 2007 at 10:30 AM
Today is the second day (and the third night of Chanukah), and I feel like I should share what I know about latkes in New York. The Manhattan latke world suffered a great loss recently when the Polish coffee shop Teresa's on First Avenue closed. Thank God the Teresa's in Brooklyn Heights is still open. Teresa's makes crisp, thin, oniony latkes that were to die for. Thin, crisp and crunchy on the outside, and soft and oniony on the inside. That is my latke Platonic ideal, and I hope you agree. I don't want my latkes to be more than an inch think. That's why I have so many problems with latkes at kosher-style delis. They make them too thick and they often don't fry them to order. That is a major latke sin. In fact, I think those deli owners are commiting latkecide. That's why you're likely to do so much better at Polish coffee shops, where they wouldn't dream of trying to get away with serving reheated latkes. So where does one go just such latkes worth the calories, the cholesterol, and the carbs?
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