This restaurant has been around for a while. Its popularity has followed the Food Network's Bobby Flay's meteoric rise into chefdom. A group from work crowded around a table at Mesa Grill over dinner during Restaurant Week the other...

Okay, Mario Batali was not there lying on a table, I don't think he was even at the restaurant. But he might as well have been! The food at Lupa was reasonably priced and bursting with flavour. We engorged...

The words "dim sum" literally mean "to touch your heart." And after eating through a mountain of these bite-size Chinese delicacies this morning, I did smile and pat my Singaporean friend Ron on the back to thank him for...

I saw a headline the other day proclaiming that early 20th century American artist Edward Hopper was the "dour bard of solitude." Hmmm... maybe a bit exaggerated. His figures are not solitary as much as they are contemplative and...

As a temporary yet full-time New York resident, I have a goal to eat my way through the best -- and cheapest -- the city has to offer. Many New York foodies will tell you that you might find...

If you've read about the Puerto Rico trip I took a year ago, you would know it was not my favourite travel experience. The food, however, was light with subtle fruitiness and delicate textures. So when my friend Alex and...

I like few things better than to discover an incredible restaurant. Finding a good place to eat in New York is sometimes as easy as asking a local. Walking around in Little Italy, having very little success actually finding...

We got a deal of a mid-town hotel on the web. A deal for New York City anyway. Taking advantage of their "Fifty Ways to Woo Your Lover" package, we booked a 1-bedroom suite at the Affinia 50 hotel...

New York, New York. There's a saying: it's so nice, they named it twice. With one day down, we had found nothing to contradict this. In fact, we surprised by the randomness of strangers. The previous night, Susan, a...

New York probably has one of the most incredible concentrations of delicious restaurants in the world. And for the artsy-fartsy, we headed to Greenwich Village. On a tip from a friend, I directed our gang through torrents of rain...

Our first order of business, our utmost priority in New York City, was to seek and devour. Our target: The Famous New York Hot Dog. Barb, Jeremy, Meredith and I set out from our hotel at Lexington and 50th...