Jamie and I had been trying to get a reservation at Babbo for about six months before we finally managed to get our resy for this Sunday (full report to follow). From my first attempts at calling to set up a reservation, all I could get was a busy signal. This is ostensibly not a [...]

Jamie and I had tickets to Fuerza Bruta this past Friday in Union Square, and wanted to take advantage of one of the many fine dining experiences in the area. Still riding high from our Babbo experience, we were interested in trying another restaurant within the Mario Batali pantheon. We settled on Casa Mono, the [...]

Jamie & I have just gotten back from our trip to Italy. It was a mammoth trip, with stops in Rome, and throughout Sicily at Palermo, Agrigento, Siracusa, and Taormina. We then flew up to Florence, and did Prato, Florence, Scandicci, Fiesole in Tuscany, before hitting Umbria. We went first to Orvieto, and then back-tracked [...]