With Restaurant Week extended until Labor Day, a few of my friends and I decided to check out Michael Jordan’s Steakhouse for lunch on Sunday.  As I’ve said before, I think a steakhouse is an incredible value for Restaurant Week, especially for lunch, simply because steak can be at least $30 or more, and during [...]

The day following All Jacked Up, my roommate and I thought we might be a bit sluggish, so we took the day off from work.  With Restaurant Week going on, we figured we’d spend the afternoon taking in a nice lunch at a steakhouse, since steakhouses usually provide the best value during this week.
Certain steakhouses [...]

To kick off Restaurant Week, I headed to Park Ave Summer on Monday with a few of my girlfriends.  I’ve raved about Park Ave Winter before and have claimed that it was one of my better Restaurant Week experiences.  As a result, I was looking forward to trying their summer menu, since the menu happens [...]

About two weeks ago, Caryn (thoughts in italics) and I were invited to try Le Perigord, a French restaurant in Midtown.  While Le Perigord was a classy French establishment, I went in with the mindset that this is a place I’d take my parents (or have them take me) or go on an anniversary date [...]

For the past few months I had been invited to try Don Coqui, a Puerto Rican restaurant up in New Rochelle.  One of my friends, Mike, works up there, so with a built-in taxi driver, I decided to take the Metro-North up
to New Rochelle last week.
New Rochelle is located about a half hour outside the [...]

After attending Cook. Eat. Drink. Live last month, I added a trip to Spanish Harlem to eat at Ricardo Steak House to my to-do list.  So when my roommate Al and I decided that we’d grab a steak dinner as our Christmas gift to each other, we decided to head uptown.
Now, before we went up [...]

Challenge: Find a place that sits 7 girls, takes a reservation on a Sunday at 1 p.m. and offers unlimited drinks.
Answer: Arte Pasta.
With my friend Kristen back in town from Atlanta, a few of my girlfriends and I gathered for brunch last weekend to catch up.  Being sorority sisters, clearly we needed to find [...]

I like Restaurant.com for its regular deals, but I love it when the gift certificates are 70 or even 80% off. A few weeks ago I snatched a bunch of certificates totaling $135 in savings and costing me a grand $19.80. The best part of these certificates is having the ability to try a restaurant [...]

When my dad, Andy, was in town last week, we decided to keep things simple and enjoy a delicious Thai meal.  Andy is always quick to point out that he loves all Asian cuisines, and with the nearest Thai restaurant far away from his home (is there even Thai restaurants in the middle of Connecticut?), [...]

With my parents in town last week, I decided that we’d experience an extended Restaurant Week menu.  My mom and dad have heard about my many meals during various Restaurant Weeks, so I thought it’d be nice for them to try out the infamous three course menu for the first time.
Since we all enjoy seafood, [...]