The steakhouse, that most American of restaurant genres, has in recent years been co-opted by foreign interests. To be a steakhouse with an unstamped passport will simply no longer do. There are Korean steakhouses, Japanese steakhouses, Thai steakhouses, and Spanish steakhouses; there’s an English steakhouse and…
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If there’s one thing worse than too much of a good thing, it’s too little of it. That was the knock on Ha’s Snack Bar, which opened last year to such instantaneous acclaim that word spread the proprietors were immediately looking for a larger second…
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Doyers Street is a one-block strip in Chinatown that starts off perpendicular to the Bowery and then curves ninety degrees, like a lowercase “r,” to terminate against the bustle of Pell Street. A notorious battleground for gang fights in the early nineteen-hundreds, it has, in recent decades,…
This could have easily been chaos, but it reads as mere idiosyncrasy, thanks to the sheer force of Wild Cherry’s appeal as a place to while away a few stylish hours. The music is hopping (when was the last time you heard “Ca’-Ba’-Dab,” by the Soul Swingers,…
