Yura on Madison
Muffins and shit do not a restaurant make. I debated (with myself) on more than one occasion whether or not to even include this place…
Baked Goods
Yura & Company
[CLOSED] The average age of the crowd at Yura varies somewhere between 70 and six feet under. With more breathing tubes and walkers per capita…
Trio French Bakery
[CLOSED] I felt like George in the soup Nazi episode trying to order a sandwich in this joint. There was a line of about six…
Payard
[CLOSED] Ooh Muffy, please pass me another one of those cream cheese and mint leaf finger sandwiches. I’m soooo precious! I’m soooo French! I’m soooo…
Muffin Man
[CLOSED] Cozy upper east cafe where the fare is “good except for the muffins”. Critics say “stick to the coffee” because the namesake “tastes like…
Morrone Pastry Shop & Cafe
For some bizarre reason it felt like these folks weren’t used to people paying for stuff they ordered. It was like those scenes from The Sopranos…
Koryodang
[CLOSED] Apparently this joint is a bakery of some sort, although I did nothing but drink coffee here. It seems they divide the place in…
Junior’s – Grand Central
[CLOSED] I’ve had my issues in Grand Central of late, so the thought of giving anything in the place a positive review is going to…
Hot & Crusty (Times Square)
[CLOSED] Well, I guess they could have gone with Wet & Sloppy or Hard & Crappy, but these geniuses of culinary nomenclature gave birth to…
Harrie’s Cafe and Bakery
[CLOSED] 1407 Broadway New York, NY Welcome to the least Google-able deli on Earth. It’s not your typical Google problem where the deli is simply…
Dean & Deluca – New York Times Cafe
Way back in the mid-nineties I had a job in a building on the corner of Lafayette and Prince down in Soho. I worked there…
Cupcake Cafe
So once upon a time there was a joint called Cupcake Cafe. They had two locations, and then the shop that sat practically in the…
Au Croissant & Gourmet
Sometimes I honestly don’t feel like doing this. When I have to review a place like this that I vaguely remember, and obviously don’t care…
The City Bakery
I was a little early for an afternoon meeting with a client, and hadn’t eaten a damn thing all day. Not a good thing when…
Burgers & Cupcakes
I am a turkey burger fanatic. It’s time I come clean and admit it to myself and to the world. Read through the eight hundred…