Hrag Vartanian

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Entries Tagged as 'cuisine'

Home of the Piña Colada

December 15th, 2007 · No Comments

Old San Juan, Puerto Rico

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Tags: American · cuisine · pop culture

A Taste of Özkaya’s “Bring Me the Head Of…”

November 28th, 2007 · 1 Comment

This year’s PERFORMA 07 performance art festival has been a windfall of offbeat events that test the limits of a medium that is inherently irreverent. One of the most peculiar of the lot was Serkan Özkaya’s Bring Me The Head Of… at Freemans restaurant in the Lower East Side.
Working with Freemans chef Jean Adamson, Özkaya [...]

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Tags: New York · art · art criticism · cuisine

Feeling Like a Fat Pig at Williamsburg’s Fette Sau

May 24th, 2007 · 1 Comment

I don’t think I’ve come across a more hyped restaurant in New York in quite a while, and I don’t mean the high-end variety of hype that gushes over sushi flown in daily from Tokyo every day or $1,000 caviar omelets, but an average priced restaurant that is red hot in the press and blogosphere.
FETTE [...]

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Tags: American · New York · cuisine · pop culture

Klee Brasserie Brings a Germanic Touch to Chelsea

May 16th, 2007 · No Comments

Daniel Angerer’s new restaurant, Klee (German for clover) is the Austrian chef’s Chelsea lab for Continental cuisine. The simple white wood facade of the eatery leads into a pristine space dominated by a comfortable bar and an exposed-brick wall. The room is accented by leather-matted tables, swivel chairs, a daisy decorated ceiling, a vibrant tile [...]

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Tags: American · New York · cuisine