City Kitchen: Delicate, Buttery Flounder With Green Garlic

Though pan-fried flounder needs only butter and lemon, why not add a handful of finely minced mild green spring garlic to the sauce.

What The Great GoogaMooga Looks Like Before Crowds

          The big food-and-music festival, The GreatGooga, is starting in less than an hour in Prospect Park. The natives are eager to trying the decadent dishes—Fried Cheesecake Bombs and Dirty Duck Dogs, anyone—while listening to the sweet sounds of Hall & Oates, The Roots and many more bands. But here’s a look at the quiet [...]

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Video: Why We’d Shove An Old Lady Into A Bike Lane To Eat An Artisanal Shaved Ice At A Festival In Brooklyn Where Food Is The New Music

We already gave you ten tempting items that will help you stretch your waistline at the Great GoogaMooga tomorrow, but what if you’re not looking to put on a few pounds to fill out that swimsuit? Enter: Wooly’s Ice. The low-calorie shaved ice creators (Danny Che, David Sat and Kenneth Sa) won a Vendy Award [...]

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Calling Bullsh*t on PokPok’s "Beer Slushie"

Gothamist publisher Jake Dobkin is blowing the cover on this whole overhyped PokPok “Beer Slushie.” Here is his exclusive report: [ more › ]

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Shut Out Of GoogaMooga? Rockaway Beach Club Opens Tomorrow

The Rockaway Beach food vendors are open for business starting tomorrow! [ more › ]

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Five Favorite Gluten-Free Dessert Spots In NYC Worth Trying

Gluten-free food is here to stay. Though some still scoff at the gluten-sensitive, the option of eating sans gluten is increasingly popular for both health and diet reasons. Heck, Domino’s is even getting into the game (though we’d recommend trying the gluten-free pie at Pala or L’asso first). But the biggest growth area in the [...]

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Miss Lily’s Brings Jerk Chicken To Smorgasburg Tomorrow

If you didn’t get a ticket to this weekend’s huge Great GoogaMooga in Prospect Park, there’s still plenty of great outdoor eats to take advantage of, like the Taste of Tribeca and the New Taste of the Upper West Side. And over on the East River Waterfront in Williamsburg, there’s another great reason to check [...]

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Photos: New York City Bars In The 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s

               We’ve looked back at how New Yorkers ate in 1938 and restaurants from the old days, but now let’s travel to the bars they tied one on at. Click through for a look at bars spanning three decades: the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s. They’re all In New York, except for that sweet cocktail lounge [...]

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Sad Batman Now Hawking Mountain Dew

The Dark Knight Rises isn’t coming to the big screen until July, but the blockbuster’s advertising tie-ins are already in full swing. As you can see, Batman is now peddling Mountain Dew, after Warner Bros. and PepsiCo formed an evil alliance that have the caped crusader trapped in an ad campaign. But it’s their in-store [...]

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Fresh Direct: Fine, We’ll Deliver To The Bronx, Take Food Stamps

After critics lambasted the sweet, sweet government subsidies that online grocer Fresh Direct received to move its headquarters to the South Bronx, the company is trying to fix some of the more glaring criticisms against it. Come May 21st Fresh Direct will expand beyond the higher-income ZIP codes in the borough and, arguably more important [...]

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