Food and Drink

Blue Spoon Coffee’s BEC Sandwich Is Eggcellent

Blue Spoon Coffee’s BEC Sandwich Is Eggcellent

When you’ve been in a neighborhood for as long as Blue Spoon has been in Lower Manhattan, you know a thing or 10 about converting casual visitors...

Here Are 19 Lower Manhattan Restaurants Participating In Restaurant Week

Here Are 19 Lower Manhattan Restaurants Participating In Restaurant Week

Local eateries made the best of a bad situation back in the cold, cold winter quarantine months by transforming Restaurant Week into Restaurant Week...

Can’t Pass Up a Burger and Fries for Under $11 at Mister Dips Seaport

Can’t Pass Up a Burger and Fries for Under $11 at Mister Dips Seaport

When our team got peckish during a recent photoshoot, we needed to order something quick and close by. The winning spot was Mister Dips, one of...

Get a Taste of Spain at Stone Street’s Tapas Spot Gran Via

Get a Taste of Spain at Stone Street’s Tapas Spot Gran Via

You don’t need to purchase a cross-Atlantic plane ticket for a European vacation this summer travel season, thanks to newcomer Gran Via. This...

A Handy Guide For An International Food Tour Right Here In Lower Manhattan

A Handy Guide For An International Food Tour Right Here In Lower Manhattan

Josh Katz, our Explorer In Chief, recently took some friends along this delicious route. Follow in their footsteps with this map right here, and...

The Corkery, a Must-Visit for Any Wine Lover

The Corkery, a Must-Visit for Any Wine Lover

The Corkery stocks some of the rarest wines in New York. The small business made it through the pandemic by offering free one-hour delivery anywhere...

Where To Grab A Bite After The Ticker-Tape Parade

Where To Grab A Bite After The Ticker-Tape Parade

The ticker-tape parade — the first major city-sponsored event post-Covid — is set to make its way through Lower Manhattan on Wednesday, July 7....

Get Bulgogi And Glass Noodles To Go With A K-Box From Battery Place Market

Get Bulgogi And Glass Noodles To Go With A K-Box From Battery Place Market

For a quick lunchtime stir-fry feast, head to Battery Place Market (240 Murray Street), where you can get a “K-Box” to go. For $12.50, the market...

The Aroma Is Intoxicating: Behind The Scenes At Eataly Downtown’s Bakery

The Aroma Is Intoxicating: Behind The Scenes At Eataly Downtown’s Bakery

Explorer in Chief Josh Katz recently followed Eataly Downtown’s lead baker Roger Flores, whose shift begins at 4 a.m.…  In the early...

Recommendation: Funny Face Bakery’s Gooey Chocolate Chip Cookie

Recommendation: Funny Face Bakery’s Gooey Chocolate Chip Cookie

On a quiet afternoon, in a reasonably low-key patch of the Seaport, a soft and chewy cookie from Funny Face Bakery has the perfect antidote to that...

Documenting An Entire Thursday Shift At The Iconic Dead Rabbit

Documenting An Entire Thursday Shift At The Iconic Dead Rabbit

Explorer in Chief Josh Katz recently observed an entire Thursday-night shift — 3 p.m. to 1 a.m. — at the iconic Dead Rabbit (30 Water Street)....

13 Affordable Downtown Lunch Spots We Can’t Stop Thinking About

13 Affordable Downtown Lunch Spots We Can’t Stop Thinking About

With workers returning to the office at long last, the debate over bringing versus buying lunch is beginning to reignite. On the one hand, bringing...