There are many types of celebrities in the food world, including chefs, restaurateurs, and network hosts. Another group, and one that is almost counterintuitive to include among these revered connoisseurs are the critics who write about food. One of the most well known critics in the United States is Ruth Reichl. Currently the Editor-in-Chief of [...]

After leaving our luggage with the Pod Hotel staff, we walked to Bar Americain, one of Bobby Flay’s three New York restaurants. Before Becco, before S’MAC, before any of the places I researched when it was decided that we were coming to New York, I knew I wanted to have brunch “with” Bobby Flay. In [...]

Our last full day in New York began with our earliest wake up call, and a journey to the Lower East Side. We had to wander a bit first, through what had to be the very (seedy) edge of Chinatown, to finally reach the place I had in mind for breakfast: Clinton Street Baking Company, [...]

If Wednesday was characterized by food, then Thursday will be remembered for the cold. To start off the day, we grabbed breakfast at McDonald’s, where they offer a Sausage Biscuit! Not really something to get excited about I suppose, especially when it really paled in comparison to Tim Hortons’ version (the biscuit itself was overly [...]

When we returned to the Pod that night, Mack’s first words were, “I feel like I’ve gained one hundred pounds today.” It was without a doubt our gastronomic peak in New York, but it started out innocently enough. Before heading over to the theatre district, we wandered over to the United Nations Headquarters, overlooking the [...]

A few observations: Native New Yorkers, like any familiar with the ebb and flow of traffic in their city, are unbelievably daring when it comes to crossing the street. Even before the cars are safely on the other side of the crosswalk, they’re off, and nonchalantly so. Mack had quite a bit of fun with [...]

To start off day 2, we snapped a few photos on the fourteen floor of our hotel, then made our way to the NBC Experience Store (in Rockefeller Centre) to pick up our Explorer Passes, something we purchased prior to our arrival in the city. While my main rationale behind buying the passes was to [...]

Our flights (first to Calgary, then to New York), were relatively painless. The in-flight entertainment system was glitched on our second flight, but I did manage to watch No Reservations (the head chef in a kitchen of that size wouldn’t also be the pastry chef). There wasn’t any food served, however, so I settled for [...]

Clearly, this is backdated, but I wanted to optimistically introduce what I hope will be a series of posts covering my trip to the Big Apple. I wasn’t so successful with blogging the details of my sojourn to Europe this summer (I made it to Day 4), but I will do my best to recount [...]

I’m leaving for New York tomorrow! It’s funny – I think I overdid the research and planning portion of this trip much too early; it’s been at least two weeks since I have really touched the set of travel guides on my desk. At any rate, we’ll see what happens when we get there. I [...]