Sahadi’s, the James Beard Award-winning specialty grocery that spans three storefronts on Atlantic Avenue, has become a part of Sunset Park’s commercial fabric after opening in Industry City two months ago. It’s just a few blocks from their production facility, which houses an 18-foot-tall roaster that freshly roasts top quality nuts and seeds, stores thousands of pallets of imported delicacies […]
Day: November 4, 2019
Paul’s dreams of John by Mike Fiorito
I dream of you often nowadays. I must admit that when the Beatles broke up, I was mad at you. We had spent far too much time together. Like brothers, we slept in the same bed sometimes. We were boxed into hotel rooms, having to take refuge from a world that wanted to steal a piece of us. We wrote […]
Nom Wah owner Wilson Tang talks traditions and Chinese-American classics
The 200-foot-long Doyers Street in New York City’s Chinatown was infamously known as the “Bloody Angle,” due to the street’s natural sharp bend and the criminal activity and bloodshed that took place between warring gangs in the early 1900s and late 1980s. More recently it’s been recognized in singer Justin Timberlake’s 2013 “Take Back the Night” music video, with Timberlake […]
Manhattan’s oldest Italian restaurant is landmarked and looks it
Barbetta – the oldest Italian restaurant in New York and oldest restaurant in the Theatre District at 113 years old – is outfitted in four townhouses that date back from 1874 to 1881. Its outside is deceiving, given the brownstone façade and shielding trees, and you might pass it by during the day if you don’t carefully look to see […]
Acme Smoked Fish’s humble beginnings and Fish Fridays
If you live in Brooklyn and have eaten bagels and lox during a Sunday brunch, there’s a good chance that the fish came from Acme. Acme has been distributing smoked fish from its Greenpoint warehouse since the mid-1950s. But the story didn’t start then. A brief history Russian immigrant Harry Brownstein came to Brooklyn in 1905 and distributed smoked fish, […]