Students stuck in their dorms are exposing NYU’s sad quarantine meals on TikTok— and demanding the school do better

New York University students who returned to campus this week are forced to quarantine in their dorms as part of the school’s enhanced coronavirus safety protocols. The school is delivering all meals to students — but things haven’t exactly gone smoothly. 

Over 2,600 students are not allowed to leave their residence halls for two weeks under a mandate from Governor Andrew Cuomo, and many of them are sharing the less-than-optimal meals they have received so far on TikTok. NYU students appear to have taken over the app — dozens have posted now-viral videos demanding the school improve its quarantine meal plan. 

According to the school, students living in dorms are meant to receive three meals each day, which arrive at their dorms in cardboard boxes and paper bags. They were asked to specify any allergies and dietary restrictions ahead of time.

In a video posted to TikTok that now has over 2.6 million views, freshman Madison Veldman showed what she received for breakfast: bottled water, a plain bagel in sealed packaging, a croissant in sealed packaging and grape juice in a plastic container. In another video, freshman Nautica Nolden said she got no breakfast or lunch — all three of her meals were delivered at 6 p.m., including dry cereal, “warm” orange juice, and a now-infamous salad consisting of watermelon and chicken. 

Some other food items highlighted in students’ videos include bags of chips, pudding cups, lemons, granola bars, plain chicken, unripe fruit, cheese sticks and bread rolls. Many students requested vegetarian or vegan meals reported receiving meat products, including a “steak and cheese salad” and a “Moroccan spiced chicken bowl.” 

Many students also say that their meals arrive at arbitrary times. Nolden told CBS News on Friday that the school has repeatedly failed to deliver her breakfast and lunch, so she has resorted to making a lot of her own food.

Nolden also said she, and many other students, ordered dinners through DoorDash, “but that gets to be pricey on our already high tuition.” Several students pointed out that ordering take-out for two weeks is not feasible for low-income students. 

Many students said in follow-up videos that they did not want to come off as ungrateful and acknowledged that many Americans are experiencing food insecurity during the pandemic. But given NYU’s infamously exorbitant tuition, students said they felt the school could do more. 

“We’re not being ungrateful, it’s just unsustainable,” Veldman said.

Tara Shear, also a freshman, has shared several now-viral videos showing the random assortment of food she’s received, including a stale muffin and spiced watermelon. Shear told CBS News on Friday that ordering delivery from local restaurants is far too expensive for most students in dorms. 

“Those of us who are dorming on campus are not the demographic of NYU students who can afford to quarantine off-campus in a hotel,” Shear said. “When NYU told us we would be provided three meals a day free of charge, we assumed we would be getting fed properly, but many of us brought snacks in case we went hungry.”

Shear said she has received many products that contain dairy despite having an allergy — a problem echoed by many students with dairy and gluten intolerances. She added that her dinner one night consisted of a bag of potato chips, two granola bars and a lemon. 

“These are not substantial meals,” Shear said. “These are snacks.”

Freshman Ricardo Sheler’s video of his meal, which has over 1.8 million views, shows off his “chicken caesar salad” dinner, which included a bag of chips, an apple and salad dressing — but no salad. Sheler told CBS News on Friday that his dorm manager has now offered to personally deliver complimentary meals to students in his Brooklyn dorm. 

Students and New York residents have come together to support those who are most vulnerable, sending them money through Venmo, PayPal and Cashapp and dropping off baked goods at dorms. However, students said they would prefer to hold the school accountable for meals. 

NYU responded to the critiques Thursday, saying that it is disappointed in how its food vendor, Chartwells, has managed the process.

“We are aware of the students’ complaints, which are valid,” NYU spokesman John Beckman said in a statement. “This is a never-before-tried operation for us… But it is vital to get it right.” 

Beckman said the school is implementing a number of changes, including ensuring meals are delivered earlier in the day, adding staff to handle complaints and to deliver food, dedicating staff to specifically handle meals with dietary specializations, bringing in another food service provider, and authorizing staff to give students money for delivery. 

“We recognize that when people are required to quarantine in their rooms by themselves, few things in the day are more important than looking forward to something nice to eat, so this is a particularly regrettable error, and a let-down for our students,” Beckman said.

Some students reported receiving meals Friday morning, but Sheler said he and his roommates had not gotten any food as of 1:20 p.m. “So as of right now all changes are essentially performative and not practical,” he said.

Nolden said she has seen that more students are receiving food on time, but said that they are still not substantial meals, typically consisting of fruit and a snack. 

NYU also sent students an apology letter Thursday night, gifting each of them a $100 e-card to order food delivery, which Sheler called a “cushion” that the school is using to buy itself more time. The letter did not address exactly how that system would work, and students said they have not yet received the credit.

“NYU is trying to help us, I suppose,” Shear said. “It just isn’t enough to cover our needs.”

Despite the food situation, many students say the school is handling the return to campus well, and implementing every possible safety measure to allow for a “normal” semester.

“I truly think we are doing insanely well,” Shear said. “I personally was tested for COVID-19 immediately after moving in, and although the wait was long, not one student could be seen without a mask or not social distancing. As a community, we do not want to be sent home.”

Many students said they are hopeful NYU won’t have to send them home early, like many other schools have done, due to its strict policies. 

“Despite the food issues, I really appreciate all that NYU is doing for us,” Nolden said. “They really are trying to keep cases down and keep us healthy and in-person. I believe their pre-quarantine and testing measures are above and stricter than a lot of other universities.”

However, students are still hoping the school steps up to improve their quarantine experience. 

“If NYU wants to uphold the wide-scale operational integrity of the quarantine and they expect students to make sacrifices in order to ensure campus safety, they have to uphold their end of the deal by making a comfortable quarantine environment that’s conducive to conditions incentivizing compliance on the students’ end,” Sheler said. 

“NYU is cracking down on safety, and we do truly feel safe here,” Shear said. “We are just hungry.”

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The NYC Hit List The Best New Restaurants In NYC (2)

Wondering where you should be eating in New York City right now? You’re in the right place. The Infatuation Hit List is your guide to the city’s best new restaurants.

And when we say “best new restaurants,” we mean it. Because we’ve tried every single one of these places - and we’ve also left off countless spots that simply aren’t as worthy of your time and money.

The Hit List is our record of every restaurant that’s opened in the past year that we’d highly recommend you try. This guide is sorted chronologically, so at the top you’ll find our latest entries to this list (the newest spots), and as you keep scrolling you’ll find the places that are on the older side - but are great enough that we still haven’t stopped talking about them.

New to The NYC Hit List (as of 2/28/20): Thai Diner, Rule Of Thirds, Bolero

Some spots you might have heard about that didn’t make the cut: Da Toscano, American Bar, 232 Bleecker, Būmu, Torien, Nowon, Portale, Leo, Il Fiorista, and Gotham Bar And Grill

And for more in-depth guides to the best new Brooklyn or Uptown spots, check out the Brooklyn Hit List and the Uptown Hit List.

The Spots  Thai Diner Thai Diner $$$$ 186 Mott St

Thai Diner is the most exciting place for breakfast or lunch right now. Eating at this Nolita diner from the Uncle Boons team feels like attending a party in a wicker basket that’s stocked with papaya, coconut, and Thai basil smoothies and chicken and rice tom yum soup. Whether it’s 7:30am when they open, or late in the afternoon before they close, both the Thai tea babka French Toast and green curry with chicken-stuffed cabbage should be on your table. Expect lines on weekends - that’s just what happens when a restaurant this special comes along.

 Bolero Bolero $ $ $ $ Vietnamese  in  Brooklyn ,  Williamsburg $$$$ 177 Bedford Ave Not

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Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg is good for lots of things (like overpaying for minimalist jewelry and getting lectured about water damage at the Genius Bar) but having a nice dinner isn’t one of them. That’s changed thanks to Bolero, a casual Vietnamese spot with less casual food from chefs who worked at very high-end restaurants like Blue Hill At Stone Barns and Benu in San Francisco. The menu is primarily made up of small plates - like fried dough packed with crab and pork, and delicious glass dumplings filled with earthy mushrooms. Share a few of these with a date at the counter overlooking the open kitchen, or come with a group and order the whole menu in the dining room that’s covered in handheld radios and mosquito netted light fixtures. Just know that they’re still waiting on a liquor license.

 Gary Landsman Rule Of Thirds $ $ $ $ Japanese  in  Brooklyn ,  Greenpoint $$$$ 171 Banker St Not

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There’s a refrigerated glass case in the middle of the dining room at Rule Of Thirds. It’s full of sake, and you should order some - if only to have something to toast with when someone stands on the bar asks everyone to say “Kanpai.” This Japanese restaurant in Greenpoint from the people behind Sunday in Brooklyn is a great spot for a fun group meal, and the izakaya-style food is perfect for sharing. Get the Kyoto-style pressed sushi topped with some colorful radishes that make the dish look like a pricey piece of home decor, and finish with the huge, crispy tonkatsu. The space is enormous with high ceilings and lots of blonde wood, and there’s a big U-shaped bar where you can hang out and drink a cocktail out of a grapefruit.

 Quality Bistro $ $ $ $ French  in  Midtown $$$$ 120 W 55th St Not

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Quality Bistro is a massive French restaurant in Midtown that has about as much gold detailing as the Salon of Venus at Versailles. The 400-bottle French wine list and the four filet mignon options might make it sound like a place to send in-laws before 6pm tickets for Chicago, but this place - from the people behind Don Angie, Quality Meats, and about 10 other popular spots - isn’t stuffy. There’s a casual bar area that gets packed with after-work crowds, and dining rooms that are louder and darker than your typical spin class. Share big portions of excellent French-leaning food with a date who you want to impress, or clients who purposefully didn’t book early flights tomorrow.

 Peoples Wine $ $ $ $ Wine Bar  in  Lower East Side $$$$ 115 Delancey St

We’re currently more impressed with Peoples Wine than we are with any candidate running for president or the poodle who won the Westminster Dog Show. The first reason being, this bar from the Contra and Wildair team serves great snacks as well as natural wine you either haven’t heard of or you already love. And the second is that Peoples has somehow created a space where you’ll want to spend multiple hours, despite the fact that it’s located in the basement of a LES food hall.

 Dan Ahn Jua $ $ $ $ Korean  in  Flatiron $$$$ 36 E 22nd St Not

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Jua is from the group behind Atomix and one of our all-time Greatest Hits, Her Name Is Han. What we’re trying to say is, we can’t remember the last time we were so excited to go to Flatiron. This Korean restaurant’s space falls somewhere between special-occasion Atomix and group-friendly Her Name Is Han, but with food that has something in common with both - we’re still thinking about it long after leaving. Dinner starts with deep-fried seaweed wrapped around uni and a ton of caviar, and the next eight dishes on the $95 tasting menu, including a bunch of things cooked on the wood-fired grill, are just as memorable. While you can order a la carte, you should come here for the two-hour set menu and share a bottle of natural wine with a date.

 Verōnika $ $ $ $ European  in  Flatiron ,  Gramercy $$$$ 281 Park Ave S Not

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If there were an Oscars ceremony for restaurants, we’d feel comfortable nominating Verōnika for several categories, like Best Borscht, and Best Impression Of a 19th-Century Aristocrat’s Clubhouse. Even if Verōnika’s Eastern European food weren’t elegant and delicious (it is), the room alone could make your night - from portraits of powerful women on the walls and little Bauhaus-style lamps on every table, to ceilings so high it’s almost inappropriate not to have a firehouse pole. Verōnika is unquestionably formal, but after a few visits, the food is what stands out here compared to other special occasion spots in the city. You’ll find Eastern European classics, like porky borscht, lamb goulash with nicely chewy spätzle, as well as black cod dish with a lemony beurre blanc sauce that will be memorialized in our hearts and minds for years to come.

 Chikarashi Isso Chikarashi Isso $ $ $ $ Japanese  in  Financial District $$$$ 38 Rector St Not

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Like Richie and Chas Tenenbaum, you wouldn’t know Chikarashi and Chikarashi Isso were related if it weren’t for the name. Whereas Chikarashi draws long lunch lines for fast-casual poke bowls, Chikarashi Isso is a high-end Japanese restaurant in FiDi where you’ll find wagyu with caviar and wok lobster with soft shell shrimp. And despite a diverse menu with tempura, yakitori, and soba, each of these dishes could pass as the restaurant’s specialty. That’s especially the case with the yakitori, and it’s why the chef’s selection of six delicious skewers of chicken and vegetables needs to be on your table. Come here for a laidback business meal the next time you’re near the Stock Exchange.

 Itay Paz Zizi $ $ $ $ Middle Eastern  in  Chelsea $$$$ 182 8th Ave Not

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The first law of thermodynamics states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, but that it can change forms and locations. While we never understood it in high school, we think we get it now after eating at ZiZi. What Williamsburg lost when Zizi Limona (a utility spot that worked for everything from group brunch to dinner with parents) closed in September, Chelsea gained when ZiZi opened there a month later. The menu at this casual Middle-Eastern spot is almost identical, including a fantastic shawarma plate with juicy chicken and lamb over creamy hummus, and the space even looks similar, with lots of exposed brick, a small bar lined with wine bottles, and a couple of tables on the sidewalk outside.

 Melissa Hom Piggyback $ $ $ $ Thai ,  Filipino  in  Chelsea ,  Koreatown $$$$ 140 W 30th St Not

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People are constantly asking us where they can sit down and grab a dinner that won’t make them sad around Penn Station. Koreatown has a bunch of great spots, and Farida is only about six blocks away - but Piggyback is now the best option within several hundred feet. It’s from the same people behind Pig and Khao, and the menu is a mix of mostly Southeast Asian things like lumpia, Thai fried rice, and a big bowl of crudo with grapefruit, cashews, and crunchy strips of pork. We especially like the flaky curry puffs stuffed with a very large handful of heavily-spiced beef, and we suggest you stop by the next time you find yourself around 30th street to get them. Bring a few friends. It’s a fun spot with loud music and murals on the walls, and they make some solid cocktails.

 Tyson Greenwood Kindred $ $ $ $ Pasta ,  Mediterranean ,  Wine Bar  in  East Village $$$$ 342 E 6th St Not

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Ruffian is one of our favorite wine bars in NYC, and the only reason we hesitate to recommend it to everyone is the fact that the 19-seat space tends to fill up before most people get out of work. But you don’t need to run the risk of a two-hour wait for excellent Mediterranean food and natural wines in the East Village anymore because Kindred, which is from the same people, opened around the corner. The small bar area up front is great for small plates and Happy Hour drinks, but unlike Ruffian, there’s also a full dining room. Come here with a date, and share some Slovenian orange wine and housemade pasta.

 Rachel Vanni Ernesto's $ $ $ $ Spanish ,  French  in  Lower East Side ,  Two Bridges $$$$ 259 E Broadway 7.4 /10

Ernesto’s is the new restaurant we’re getting asked about the most. It’s a Basque-inspired place that’s already packed with people eating pinxtos, sitting in leather chairs we’d like to own, surrounded by red brick and gold fixtures and globe lights. On a first visit, we weren’t blown away by the food - with the exception of a tower of housemade potato chips and iberico ham - but the restaurant experience made up for it. It’s a place where you want to hang for a while, or as long as the sommelier/wine whisperer keeps suggesting different half-glasses of French and Spanish natural wines for you to try.

 Noods n' Chill Noods n’ Chill $ $ $ $ Thai  in  Brooklyn ,  Williamsburg $$$$ 170 S 3rd St 8.4 /10

Let’s get one thing out of the way: Noods n’ Chill is not a great name. It sounds like an upstate retreat with a lax dress code or a text you’d receive from an unsaved number at 12am. But none of that matters. Because Noods N’ Chill is where you’ll find the best Thai food in Williamsburg. This tiny counter-service spot is from the same people behind Look By Plant Love House (one of our favorite Thai restaurants in the city), and most things here cost less than $15. The guay tiao tom yum soup - with its spicy broth, tender fish balls, and abundant noodles - is an excellent choice, and you should go ahead and get a few pork buns to start your meal. Try this place for a casual weeknight dinner (that’s better than most) or stop by for brunch, when there’s stuff like kaya toast and porridge.

 Marko Macpherson Bar Bête $ $ $ $ French  in  Carroll Gardens ,  Cobble Hill $$$$ 263 Smith St Not

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Bar Bête is NYC’s latest restaurant serving roast chicken on marble tables beneath large hanging globe lights. But this trendy Cobble Hill spot has more to offer than the possibility of a Bon Appetit staff member sighting. It’s where you should absolutely have dinner with a date in the area. The simple reason being, they serve thoughtful and delicious French food (like a peekytoe crab omelette) that makes ordering the roast chicken seem about as inspiring as proposing to someone at a Yankees game. So don’t write it off as just another trendy roast chicken restaurant.

 Noah Fecks Banty Rooster $ $ $ $ American  in  West Village $$$$ 24 Greenwich Ave Not

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The Banty Rooster is a rare example of a West Village place that exceeded our expectations. At first glance, this casual American spot feels like countless other places in the area serving potato fritters and short rib. But then you’ll notice that the fritters are served with salt cod aioli and the short rib crumbles when you dip it in the side of ancho barbecue sauce. Between the food, big space, and affordable wine offerings, this place should be at the top of your list for your next group dinner in the West Village.

 Melissa Hom Kochi $ $ $ $ Korean  in  Hell's Kitchen ,  Midtown $$$$ 652 10th Ave Not

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We’ve long championed eating things on sticks. But while seven of the nine courses at Kochi are served on skewers, that’s not the reason we’re telling you to go. You should go to this Korean tasting menu spot in Hell’s Kitchen because everything from the raw scallops and fluke at the beginning of the meal to the black sesame ice cream pop at the end is delicious. You’ll leave feeling full, and considering the variety and quality of everything here (including bibimbap topped with tons of uni), the $75 price tag feels reasonable, especially while it’s still BYOB.

 Liz Clayman Le Crocodile $ $ $ $ French  in  Brooklyn ,  Williamsburg $$$$ 80 Wythe Ave 8.2 /10

The restaurant space in the bottom of the Wythe Hotel has always been one of our favorites. It has huge windows, high ceilings, and brick walls that wouldn’t feel out of place in a rural castle from the fifteenth century. And now that Le Crocodile has moved in, we’d like to eat there every day. This French restaurant is from the people behind Chez Ma Tante in Greenpoint, and the menu is equal parts traditional and exciting. You’ll find escargots and steak tartare, for example, and it also has a pork chop covered in burrata and some roast chicken with several fistfuls of fries on the side. Order all of these things. And be sure to book a table before more people realize they should eat here.

 Anton's $ $ $ $ American ,  Italian  in  West Village $$$$ 570 Hudson St 8.2 /10

Anton’s might have only just replaced Frankie’s 570 in the West Village, but it feels like this Italian restaurant has both been around forever and is here to stay. On our first visit a week into service, it was already running like a well-oiled machine, and almost everything we tried we’d want to eat again. With its dark wood, long bar, and ideal amount of candlelight, it’s the kind of place that makes you want to become a regular who has a standing martini and steak and/or pasta order. Speaking of which, the pastas are where we’d recommend you focus your order.

 Flora Hanitijo Mina's $ $ $ $ Greek  in  Long Island City $$$$ 22-25 Jackson Ave Not

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Not all museum restaurants are created equal. And Mina’s, the new Greek small plates spot in MoMA PS1, is proof. Unlike most museum cafeterias or upscale restaurants that feel like museums themselves, Mina’s is both casual and pleasant. The bright space is ideal for a brunch or snack involving things like a creamy muhammara, perfectly oily anchovies, and an excellent Greek egg and cheese boat peinirli. Take someone here who likes natural wine, Sally Rooney books, and the color seafoam. They’ll want to move in.

 The Riddler The Riddler $ $ $ $ American ,  French ,  Raw Bar  in  West Village $$$$ 51 Bank St 8.1 /10

While we were drinking from a Chambong at The Riddler in the West Village, the couple at the table over stared at us, so transfixed by what they were seeing that they forgot they were holding shrimp cocktail in midair. Whether you want to have a classy evening involving raw bar and several glasses of Champagne, or debauchery by way of Chambong and glasses of wine filled to the literal brim, you’ll have a good time at this Champagne bar in the West Village. Just be sure to order the raclette burger and to make a reservation - the space is small and there’s very little room for walk-ins.

 Zooba $ $ $ $ Middle Eastern ,  Egyptian  in  Nolita $$$$ 100 Kenmare St 8.5 /10

Zooba is a fast-casual restaurant in the same way that Bob Ross is a watercolor painter. It’s technically true, but there’s a lot more exciting context. This is the first US location of an Egyptian spot with several locations in Cairo, and it’s officially where you should be getting lunch or a quick dinner in the Soho area. The ceiling in here is covered with neon signs and it’s pretty difficult not to admire the flashing lights above you while you wait in line. But the food is more memorable than any of that. The specialty is the ta’ameya (fried balls made out of fava beans), which you can and should order spicy, but we also love the hawawshi beef patty sandwich with cheese. Most things come on a soft homemade Egyptian pita called baladi and everything costs under $15. If you work anywhere downtown - we suggest beelining here.

 Nami Nori $ $ $ $ Sushi  in  West Village $$$$ 33 Carmine St 7.6 /10

Nami Nori feels like a tiny West Village boutique or a cinematic version of the afterlife. It’s a bright and attractive space on Carmine Street with two bars and just a handful of tables, and pretty much everything is either white, off-white, or a soothing shade of light brown. They specialize in hand rolls that are left open like tacos (instead of being cylindrical or cone-shaped). And of the 20 different kinds - like tuna poke with crispy shallots, lobster tempura with yuzu aioli, and a few classic varieties - the least-complicated ones are the best. For $28 you can get a chef’s selection of five rolls, and there are also a bunch of small plates like shishito peppers and miso clam soup, most of which cost less than $10. Start with one or two of those, get the chef’s selection, and you’ll have a very good and reasonably priced (for sushi) meal.

 Noah Devereaux Sushi Jin $ $ $ $ Japanese ,  Sushi  in  Upper East Side $$$$ 316 E 84th St 8.1 /10

You’ll know you’ve reached Sushi Jin when you see a koi fish flag hanging outside of a brownstone on 84th Street on the UES. This is the most exciting new omakase place we’ve been to this year, especially because dinner here will involve an uni handroll and won’t cost more than $100. The $95 option comes with 12 pieces of fish (including that handroll) presented like a valuable collection of baseball cards - as well as soup, dessert, and green tea. Each piece of sushi - like sea eel from the Tokyo Bay, cherry sea bream, or seared Japanese barracuda - is thoughtfully dressed with dabs of sauce, yuzu zest, or tiny flakes of hard-boiled egg yolk.

 Llama San $ $ $ $ Japanese ,  Peruvian  in  West Village $$$$ 359 Avenue of the Americas 8.5 /10

Llama San is the latest place from the people behind Llama Inn, a Peruvian restaurant in Williamsburg we’ve been recommending on repeat since it opened several years ago. But unlike Llama Inn, Llama San serves the type of Japanese-influenced Peruvian food known as Nikkei. There’s a plate of raw hamachi with matcha foam and tiny cubes of coconut, for example, as well as some Japanese eggplant with little mounds of fresh cheese and some bisected red grapes - and both of these dishes are bright, complex, and worth seeking out. We’re also fans of the space, which has a lot of blonde wood and ambient lighting, and we feel compelled to mention that we wanted to steal the plates and other ceramic dishware. So book a table, and bring a date or a friend who wants to have a special dinner. And don’t steal the plates.

 Win Son Bakery $ $ $ $ Taiwanese  in  East Williamsburg $$$$ 164 Graham Ave 8.7 /10

The name Win Son Bakery is a little misleading. Because in addition to some excellent doughnuts and other baked goods, this counter-service spot from the Win Son people also serves a few salads and bunch of different sandwiches like a burger with raclette on a milk bun. They also have some crunchy fried chicken covered in a sweet and sour sauce, and it’s one of our favorite things here. However, we could easily just sit in a corner and eat some of Win Son Bakery’s plain scallion pancakes for an hour or two. That’s how much we like the food here. So grab a table in the bright, cafe-like space. It’s open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and it’s right across the street from Win Son in East Williamsburg.

 Bread And Salt $ $ $ $ Pizza ,  Italian  in  Jersey City ,  New Jersey $$$$ 435 Palisade Ave 8.6 /10

If you’re hesitant to travel to Jersey City for a counter-service slice shop, know that we’d make the trip just for the crust. They don’t serve the light, charred crust on its own, though, and most of it comes with perfectly acidic and sweet tomato sauce, and/or mozzarella that’s pulled in-house. The slice variety changes every few minutes, so your choices are entirely dependent on whatever recently came out of the oven. But if you see them, prioritize the sausage and pepper or anchovy and green tomato slices, as well as the rossa and margherita. Since Bread And Salt is BYO, we suggest bringing some red wine, and hanging out for an hour or two so that you can order slice-after-slice without feeling like you’re missing out on whatever’s coming out of the oven.

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Maison Yaki, the second restaurant from the people behind Olmsted (across the street), is a place of miniatures. Instead of entrees, there are skewers. Instead of normal-sized cocktails, there are slightly shrunken ones. Even the wine and beer glasses make you look at your hands to make sure you haven’t suddenly become a giant. Luckily, the prices at this French-Japanese mashup are downsized too - nothing costs more than $9. The setup makes it easy for you to try a lot on the menu, without spending a crazy amount of money. And while you’ll eat things like duck à l’orange and lobster Americaine skewers, the whole experience feels fun and relaxed. If you’re in a restaurant rut, this is a great place to come and mix it up.

 Nicole Franzen Wayla $ $ $ $ Thai  in  Lower East Side $$$$ 100 Forsyth St 8.6 /10

Like most animals on this planet, we enjoy eating outside - and that’s part of the reason why we like Wayla, a new Thai restaurant on the LES that has a backyard filled with potted plants, string lights, and some patio furniture that’s probably nicer than a lot of the stuff you choose to keep indoors. The food here also happens to be excellent, especially the pork sausage and fried branzino. But we’d be keeping secrets if we didn’t tell you to order the noodle-wrapped meatballs and the daily curry too. Bring a few people, so you don’t have to waste time trying to decide between all of these things.

 Helen Lee Golden Diner $ $ $ $ Diner  in  Two Bridges $$$$ 123 Madison St 8.7 /10

It takes a lot for us to tell you to go out of your way for a diner. But we would advise you do so in the case of Golden Diner, a little spot underneath the Manhattan Bridge with big windows, yellow booths, and lace curtains. The short (for a diner, at least) menu here is what sets it apart - there’s a club sandwich stuffed with chicken katsu, an avocado toast topped with turmeric, thai basil, and galangal, and a bibimbap-style bowl of creamy barley covered in enough vegetables, fruits, and flowers to look and taste like a field that you definitely want to frolic through. Make your next lunch-outside-of-the-office plans here, or stop by for a great tuna melt or burger at night for dinner.

 Chris Payne Crown Shy $ $ $ $ American  in  Financial District $$$$ 70 Pine St 9.1 /10

Crown Shy is one of a few new places (like Manhatta) that make us actually excited about getting dinner in FiDi. This new American spot off the lobby of a landmarked luxury apartment building has high ceilings and huge windows, and is perfect for clients or in-laws or anyone you generally want to convince that you have your sh*t together. The food - like hummus that comes with ’nduja and sugar-coated puffed bread, and crispy farro with bone marrow and chunks of oxtail - will also impress just about everyone. But while it’s certainly upscale, Crown Shy doesn’t feel stuffy - the walk-in-only bar area, as well as the open kitchen and surprisingly affordable prices (most dishes are under $20), make it the kind of spot you could go anytime you want to get a little dressed up for a nice night out.

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  On Fridays, I take my 5-year-old to Fox Walkers in Nevada City.  I’m a homeschooler and I’m creating and foraging for classes that will teach him to appreciate Mother Earth and make friends from like-minded families.  This class is out in the woods and teaches the 4 elements of earth and Native American ways.  They do all sorts of great stuff like hike, track animals, analyze skeet, finding clay and making things (he tried making me a coffee cup, God bless that boy), sit around fires and sing, play drums, get dirty, build things out of sticks.  Perfect for a boy.  Arjan already has two friends named Oliver and Durin.  He is learning the art of storytelling and singing.  This is real school as far as I’m concerned.

We are a strange family, I’m part modern and get the itch to shop just like everyone else.  The other side of my personality is green and sustainable, old-fashioned and crazy frugal.  I’m conservative and a hippy tree hugger.  I’m working on balancing this out.  One thing I have made peace with is that I just can’t shop at the box stores or Walmarts any longer.  They represent all the many things I find disappointing with this new age.  Not to mention I feel I need a spiritual scrub down and exorcism each time I leave that store.  There is a certain crowd that gathers at that watering hole and they scare me when I think the group represents modern times.  Of course, there are the grandmothers and me that bring balance but there is only so much we can do.

I’m a Libra at heart and I love all that is lovely and quaint.  I love the old Victorian because back then homes and products were made to last and made charming and sweet.  Look at old homes with the details or the old parts of town that were made for walking and gathering.  Old buildings shadowed by the ugly, cold steel and cement of the modern skyrise.  So sad.

Anyway, let’s talk shop.  I prefer the local health food coops for their cozy, wholesome and sustainable feel.  I have found one in Grass Valley so when I drop Arjan off in the forest with his Fox Walkers group, Sammy and I go to the Briar Patch Coop and get our drinks, his cocoa, and my soy latte, and we do all the weeks shopping.  I love the cozy lights, the smell of sprouts, yeast, and lavender, the healthy customers that look like they will be taking a morning hike after they purchase their carrots and granola.

Sammy and I explore new vegetables and find the best apples.  I’m an apple connoisseur.   We collected different colored and shaped pumpkins to decorate with.  He gets a free banana or apple of his choice on the house and we have a produce man that is a celebrity to us since the boys saw his photo on the website.  We love his french carrots and eat bags of them like a horse.

After the shopping that we go about like a tourist, we select delectables from the deli and bakery.  When we’ve paid for all our goods we sit in the cafe by the window and dine together.  Sammy and I discuss deep topics such as why one doesn’t put pepper on their lemon poppyseed muffin and that goes for salt as well.  I attempt to read the San Francisco Chronicle that has made it all the way up there in the forest town.  I am instantly disgusted and turn back to the discussion of the real purpose of salt and pepper.  That is a much more satisfying topic.  We then put the groceries in the truck and take a walk with our drinks to take pictures of fall foliage and walk a trail that leads to the local college and collect pine cones on the way.

This is a very fun time for us and we look forward to every Friday.  Who would think that grocery shopping could be so lovable?

Now, shopping at the local health food store or coop can be very pricey.  Everything is organic and natural and it ain’t easy growing food and making products without the aid of chemicals.  It’s labor intensive.  That is why it cost more.  Read The Dirty Life by Kristin Kimball and you’ll have a great appreciation for real food.

Why pay those crazy prices?  Because food and products made organically means that nothing was poisoned and ruined and destroyed or killed beyond recognition with hideous poisons that are proven to cause cancers and other diseases that we are always “fighting”.  This fight against cancer could be cut very short if we actually removed the root of the problem.  For example, recently it has been determined that yes, Round Up causes cancer.  You would think they would have a worldwide emergency round up of this Round-Up and ban it completely and promptly.  No, they just put a small label on it so your dingy neighbor will probably still spray the hell out of his yard and the fumes and runoff will come into your healthy yard.  Stupid.  But let’s get out there in pink t-shirts and march against cancer.  Hey, why don’t we march against corporate farming, Monsanto, and Round Up and similar chemicals?  Would that be too forward?

When you pay the extra money you pay for healthy soil, clean water, clean air, healthy ecosystems, healthy birds, bees, and farm workers.  You pay for no cancer and disease which saves you so much time, pain, money, doctors visits, and your families hardship in the end.  Wow, put that way it seems like not that much to pay.

The other great benefit is that organic food, free range, grass fed, cruelty-free, old-fashioned farmed food tastes great!

I hear all the time “but when people are poor they just want to fill their bellies”.  I get that and there are times you just can’t do all that organic and free-range feeding.  However, when you eat real food loaded with nutrition, it does fill you up and you are less hungry.  When you are eating dollar burgers or mac and cheese you are getting fatter but feel hungry all the time because your body isn’t getting any real nutrition to actually work with.  That is another long health and nutrition dialogue and I am bored already.

Here is how you take that small coin purse or EBT card and make it happen.  And yes, I have done the coop on an EBT card.

First, you join the coop because you will get discounts and can do a lot of wholesale bulk purchasing.  You can volunteer a few hours now and then to get a 10% discount and they have sales all the time.

I joined for $10 every 6 months until I pay off $200.  I just ordered some Quorn Turkey roast (faux turkey made out of mushrooms) in a case and saved so much.  Usually, it’s $9.99 a roast but with the wholesale case and discount, I got it for around $5.55 a roast.  You can order bulk beans, rice, flour and so on.  You save 30% to 50% when it’s all totaled up.

Eating very clean helps.  If you eliminate the snacks and healthy junk food you save.  If you cook from scratch you save big time.  I purchased tortillas out of sheer laziness the other day and it was $6 for a pack of those flour delights.  I could make 3 packs for $1 at home.  Lesson learned…again.

When you only buy rice, beans, flour, wheat, produce in season…you spend very little.  You can buy bulk and choose the brown rice that is the least expensive.  Pintos are the cheapest and think of all the bread and tortillas you can make from a 25 lb bag of flour and wheat.  You can even make your own pasta easily.  That’s next on my bucket list.

If you love your meat and eggs and dairy then get the loose eggs.  Some stores have a bowl of eggs. You bring your own carton.  Get whole chickens.  A whole chicken can last a family a week.  We don’t need to eat all that meat.  In the old days and in other countries meat is a garnish, not the whole meal.  Move over Adkins we need to de-clog that heart valve.

Dairy is not something I recommend.  My son used to get all sorts of ear infections until I cut it out.  Both my sons had chronic and mucusy colds all the winter long.  Now they get sick a day in the Fall.  Butter is a luxury.  Use sparingly or learn to use vegetable stock or make your own bone broth from the leftover chicken carcass.  This is for simmering.

You may say, “rice, beans, wheat? How boring?”  No, no senora or senor or senorita!  I can’t even list what you can do with these main items.  Just get a bag of onions, tons of garlic and some olive oil and sea salt and you will be a chef in no time.

Potatoes.  God, I love the spud.  French fries (baked of course), baked, au gratin, casseroles, soups, hash browns, country fries…

I’ll write another blog on “what to do with boring foods”.

With produce in season, you can whip up amazing salads, snack on fruit.  Eating with the seasons is more flavorful and smart.  God knew what he was doing when he made oranges ripe in the winter.  Baked squash and corn in the cold weather…yummy!

You can also start growing your own food and raise a few hens.  That supplements.  A fruit tree in the front yard?  seeds and trees and hens are cheap and give you food for years.  And that doesn’t get any more organic than that.

I’ll be back with more ideas and tips as I master this coop business.

  How to do all your shopping at your local health food store on a tight budget. And why it’s a great idea. On Fridays, I take my 5-year-old to Fox Walkers in Nevada City.  I'm a homeschooler and I'm creating and foraging for classes that will teach him to appreciate Mother Earth and make friends from like-minded families. 

Paris - Central Paris

This is the first post in a series of a guide to Paris, organized by area. Here we are starting with central Paris - the area bordering the Seine where you will certainly head to, especially if it's your first time. This is where you can find all the must-sees: the Louvre, St. Germain, the Palais Royal and the long lines for a teeny scoop of salted caramel ice cream at Bertillon. 

The central part of Paris is probably the Paris you pictured before you went for the first time. It's pale beige limestone buildings, with slate grey roofs and wrought iron balconies. It's windows framed with wooden shutters and adorned with flowers, parks with rolling lawns shaded by neat rows of linden trees with their thin, flat green leaves that catch the sunlight. It's the sun reflecting off the waters of the Seine, and cafés with woven rattan chairs spilling out into the sidewalk. It can also be, especially during popular holiday times, masses of people, rows of tour buses, selfie sticks waving in the air, long lines, and pricey not-so-great espressos. 

It's still probably the first area you should head to if it's your first day or first time in Paris, to really make it feel like you're *there*. And although some of the lines cannot be avoided, know that even in this most well-traversed of areas there are quiet alleys, hidden gems and great, (fairly) reasonably priced cups of coffee.

11:30AM MY FAVORITE PETIT PETIT DEJEUNÉR:

From the same team as Verjus (which you should definitely go to as well), Ellsworth also does small plates and it is one of my favorite breakfast spots in Paris. Small plates for breakfast means you can get eggs and fried chicken AND a yogurt parfait and not leave stuffed. And of course since this is no Denny's the scrambled eggs are dotted with morel mushrooms and swirls of homemade ricotta and pesto while the strawberry parfait looks like that (below). 

My mom actually declared this her favorite meal in Paris and was sad to find out that the team behind it were amèricaines...

   12:00PM THE PERFECT DAYTIME PICNIC SPOT:

Not revolutionary by any means - and this will be obvious by how packed it will be on a sunny day - but the Luxembourg Gardens are a great spot to have a picnic. Lots of lawn space, chairs to read in, leafy paths, lawn bowling and the last time I went - miniature pony rides?  Bring a book, a blanket, fruit, some pastries from Pierre Hermé, a baguette, some charcuterie and a bottle of wine - and you're all set. If the weather turns on you, the trees provide some decent coverage from the rain.

1:14PM WHEN YOU HAVE AT LEAST A HALF DAY TO SPARE:

It's huge, and there are lines and the Mona Lisa is pretty underwhelming. But. It is awe-inspiring, from the architecture of this grand former palace to standing a couple inches away from iconic art pieces and thousand year old relics. The Louvre can feel like a treasure hunt: make sure you look up at the ornate ceilings (especially the Cy Twombly painted one in the Objets d'Art wing), down at the intricately patterned marble tiled floors, and around nooks and crannies, where the less notorious but at times most fun pieces are tucked away. Get there early, wear comfortable shoes, and the lockers make life much easier if you are carrying a lot of stuff (shopping, umbrellas, et. al). My favoritest wing is the Objets d'Art one, with all the  gem-studded, exotic leather covered, solid gold monogrammed and mother-of-pearl inlaid royal artifacts. Although it is a symbol of the preposterous wealth inequality at the time it is fascinating to look at everyday items like hairbrushes, tea cups, and snuff boxes that cost more than anything I've ever touched in my life. 

4:37PM FOR AN ESPRESSO TO REFUEL POST-LOUVRE:

After getting your 10,000 steps in at the Louvre the beautiful Café Marly is right on site and the perfect place to catch your breath (and maybe some wifi to post that Mona Lisa snap) for a bit. Although prices are a little steep, an espresso and freshly squeezed orange juice shouldn't break the bank. The outside terrace is lovely and faces the iconic Louvre pyramid while the inside is all rich reds, velvet black and touches of gold. The waiters are notoriously rather good-looking and last time we were there, there was a friendly calico cat chilling underneath one of the tables inside the restaurant. A little something for everyone. 

5:16PM WHEN YOU WANT ICE CREAM BUT DONT'T WANT TO RUIN YOUR APPETITE:

It's pricey no doubt and there will be lines but the salted caramel is unequivocally worth it. Plus if you have a whole day of eating planned, take comfort (or glass half full it) in the fact that the scoops are definitely on the small side. And IMHO, the extra euro for the seasonal fraises des bois is not worth it, go for the regular strawberry (or double up on caramel au beurre salé).

There are actually carts that sell Berthillon all over Paris so if you don't want to wait in lines, or go to Ilê-St-Louis you certainly don't have to. The island is worth a peek though, especially the quieter outer streets that are more residential.

6:30PM WHEN YOU MISS HOME ALREADY:

It's not the *best* burger in Paris and it's not a budget spot. But it's a pretty decent burger, and most of all there is something fun about eating cheeseburgers, tomato soup, and cobb salad in a stately French courtyard, smack dab on the Boulevard Saint-Germain.

8:11PM FOR THE BEST SUNSET PICNIC VIEWS:

Although you could go up to the fancy restaurant at the top of the Eiffel tower, I much rather sit at the edge of cobblestone paths on the Quai de Seine, legs swinging above the lapping waves of the river, with a bottle of wine and a bite of bread and cheese. For free. As the sun goes down you can witness the full color spectrum of the Seine: the water goes from a forest green, to a dark grey, then a pale orange-pink as it reflects the light of the sunset, and finally an inky midnight blue. The area facing the Eiffel Tower (shown above) or Notre Dame (down below) are especially scenic as the sun goes down. If it's a nice day, you will see many Parisians following your cue. 

9:24PM BEST MEAL AT A COUNTER:

If you can't get a seat at the perpetually packed restaurant Le Relais du Comptoir head on over to the more casual stand-up counter operation next door, L'Avant Comptoir. The menu is hung up on the rafters, and anything pork is a solid choice - especially the jambon. If in season the white asparagus might be one of my favorite dishes in Paris. Order a glass of wine and make (generous) use of the communal baskets of bread, giant mound of butter and giant-er jar of cornichons. If  the bartenders take a liking to you, you can use the Sharpies to leave your initials (at least until the next time they wipe them clean) on the tiles that line the walls. 

  10:45PM FINISH THE NIGHT WITH A COCKTAIL OR TWO:

Prescription Cocktail Club is right off a busy portion of St. Germain, but as soon as you walk into the small bar, you are transported to another world. The shades are always drawn, candles are the only source of light, and the murmur of conversation and clinking glasses mix in with the background music. The drinks are strong and the mule and anything with mezcal are sure shots. 

9:01AM AND OF COURSE, SUPPLIES FOR ALL THESE PICNICS:

Uhh actually that's the restaurant Claus, but on the opposite side you have Claus the store (below), that sells pastries, coffee, juices, yogurt, jams, chocolate hazelnut spread...you get the idea. With some charcuterie (from Gilles Verot if you want the best) and a baguette from wherever (there is a La Parisienne nearby), maybe some of the passion fruit macarons from Pierre Hermé, and some libations; I think you'll be all set.

9:47AM WHAT TO DO ON THE DIMANCHE WHEN THE RESTAURANT YOU WANT TO GO TO IS CLOSED:

The Marché Biologique Raspail in St. Germain is one of my favorites. It is certainly not one of the more affordable markets as everything is 'bio' (organic) but you can find a wide selection of breads, meats, fish, cheeses, & produce as well an assortment of clothes, Turkish towels, carved olive wood cutting boards and other home goods. I highly recommend the Middle Eastern flatbreads fresh from the griddle, the fruit & nut breads and the onion pancakes from the 'onion pancake man' at the end of the market. There may be a short line but have your exact change ready and bite into this perfectly browned mixture of griddled cheese and shaved onions.

10:58AM COFFEE AND COOKIES WITH A VIEW:

The Maison Kitsuné café in the Galerie de Valois probably has one of the most pleasant little backyards ever - just casually inside the Palais Royal gardens. Grab a coffee or a matcha latte and some of their (gluten free) kitsuné shaped shortbread cookies and head out to the tables in the back. If you are so inclined the Acne store nearby is a good one. 

12:17PM WHEN YOU COME IN AUGUST, AND EVERYTHING IS FERME POUR VACANCES:

Yes Le Relais de l'Entrecôte is a chain and the line out the door has a lot of fellow tourists. In fact the first time I visited the restaurant, I was not in France at all but in São Paulo in Brazil. But they serve good food efficiently, year-round. The menu is also rather (extremely) streamlined as they only serve one thing: entrecôte (rib-eye steak) with their famous sauce, fries and a simple green salad. The only decision you make is whether you want salad or not, and to what doneness you want your steak done. Their sauce is quite tasty, the service is très efficient and the fries are bottomless (!): in other words this is the closest thing you can probably get to a French version of fast food. 

1:45PM WHEN THE LINES FOR NOTRE DAME ARE TOO DAMN LONG:

The stunning Saint-Chapelle is probably my favorite cathedral in Paris (and right around the corner from Notre Dame on Ilê-St-Louis). When the sun is shining through the colorful stained glass windows in the morning you can see rays of magenta pink, royal blue and golden yellows streaming into the church. The lines and crowds are minimal compared to its more famous brethren like Notre Dame and Sacré-Couer and it feels like being inside a jewel box. 

2:37PM WHEN YOU HAVE SOME MONEY TO BURN:

Hard to beat Rue Saint-Honoré if you are after some *fancy* stuff to bring home. Remember that the tax-back minimum is 175 euro, so if you reach that amount you can get a form to get about 12% of your purchase value back to you by just scanning and dropping off the forms at the VAT Refund kiosks in the airport. If you shop at department stores like Le Bon Marché you can also get your VAT refund on the spot. Some of the stores can get packed - the teensy Hermès stores will ask you to come back later if they are full and it can be a bit trying to get someone to assist you at some of the more popular stores like the perpetually packed Louis Vuitton. This is yet another opportunity to get some macarons at Pierre Hermé and chill. If you are after something a little less stodgy, the Colette store always has fun clothes and merchandise. 

3:50PM BEST SUNNY DAY WALK:

The Tuileries on a nice day is a truly joyful experience with a wide expanse of rolling green grass, colorful flowers, and the ferris wheel ever slowly spiraling in the background. And on a sunny day the airy all-white Museé de L'Orangerie seems particularly vivid, with the purples and teals of the grand Monets hugging the curved walls seemingly sparkling. When I was there in the spring a blanket of tiny white flowers was covering the shadier parts of the grass and sprouting out of cracks in the walls, the tulips were in full bloom and purple and pink flowers were cascading out of the somber stone vases. 

5:48PM BEST RAINY DAY WALK:

The Musée d'Orsay is housed in a former train station built in the late 1800s and the building alone is worth a look, with its domed glass ceilings and grand Beaux-Art style clocks spread throughout. It houses mostly French art from the mid 1800s to early 1900s including Monet, Seurat, Van Gogh and my favorite painting in the world by Gustave Caillebotte. It can be crowded but it has an interesting mix of art and is easy to do in an hour or two. I especially love the room with art inspired by Asia and the Middle East, which has a different feel from the rest of the depictions of mostly Europe-centric art. With no gardens or outdoor areas, it is a good one to head to when it starts to pour. 

7:36PM WHEN YOU FEEL THAT (FUTURE) VAT REFUND BURNING A HOLE IN YOUR POCKET:

Hotels like the Plaza Athenée and the Hôtel Costes have beautiful interiors, with leafy courtyards, impeccable decor, and minimally lit, maximally luxurious bars all mahogany panels, eggplant purple velvet and flickering candles. And 19 euro cocktails. But hey, the spiced almonds, chips and olives are free so... 

8:55PM FOR A TRADITIONAL FRENCH DINNER AND NOT A MICROGREEN IN SIGHT:

Polidor was recommended by a friend of my dad's who lived in Paris. It serves up no-fuss French food in a decidedly cozy and unpretentious atmosphere. The prices are extremely reasonable and the crowd leans older and French-er. The blond lentil cream soup was served simply with a few torn hunks of bread. The beef carpaccio was sprinkled only with grated parmesan and came with a hefty side of French fries. Lastly, the blueberry Bavarois was feathery light, swimming in a pool of inky purple coulis. There was not a shred of green in sight but fear not, if this seems a little too French: after handing me the fries the waitress whispered that 'of course we don't normally serve it - but if you want we do have le ketchup in the back'.

Ces't tout for now! Last update June 16, 2017.

Mae woke up at the perfect time of 1:35 pm, only to be decked in the face by exhaustion and boredom. As a kid, getting a day off of school was like heaven. Unfortunately, after you become a disappointment to the family and a college drop out with literally nothing to do, and no responsibilities past showering occasionally, it starts being less fun and more... depressing. Mae didn't like thinking about that too much. As light filtered into her messy little room, Mae opened her eyes and immediately regretted it, sinking deeper into the bed covers. Waves of pain and nausea coursed through her head, and she clenched her teeth, clutching onto the bedspread. The dreams hadn't gotten... worse, necessarily, but it seemed that they were getting more vivid. Which sucked. Face still firmly planted in the covers, Mae blindly groped around for her laptop, shuffling things around on the nightstand as she dragged it onto her lap. Unfortunately, this was the step where she would need to be able to see. Slowly, she rubbed her eyes and reluctantly opened them, giving a sigh of relief when no second burst of pain affected her. She absently logged on, yawning as she waited for the morning's messages to load in. greggrulz: Heeeeey!!!! greggrulz: at work 2day.... u should stop by!!! greggrulz: my boss dropped off some new stuff greggrulz: lightbulbs for like..... 68 cents greggrulz: im sure she wouldnt notice if a few... went missing greggrulz: anyway!!! see u later greggrulz: Sincerely, Greggory. Well, it was too late now. Gregg had the morning and evening shifts which meant he'd probably be at home with Angus right now. And Mae really didn't want to stick her finger in their broken call button again. So, that was out. Wouldn't hurt to text him back, though! witchdagger1031: Hey gregg witchdagger1031: ur not online now, but we can def hang tomorrow witchdagger1031: im down with whatever witchdagger1031: tell the big guy i say hi witchdagger1031: over and out Yeah, that was good. Angus, per usual, had only left an away message, but that was okay. He was probably having fun fixing a giant robot, or programming a top-secret device for the FBI. Or... Whatever Angus did in his spare time. BeatriceSantello: Morning. BeatriceSantello: I'm at work, If you want to come by or whatever. BeatriceSantello: See you soon. Mae shuddered. So.... Formal. Aack. For as much of a badass Bea was, she kinda needed to loosen up a little. Mae let her mind wander. Maybe there'd be another furnace to beat the shit out of today. Hmm. No, she was actually more in the mood to destroy a refrigerator. Yeah, that sounded good. Dragging herself out of bed, Mae pulled on a worn orange sweatshirt and yanked a pair of shoes onto her feet. She trudged down the steps, feeling a little lonely when her mom wasn't in the kitchen. She knew it was unreasonable for her mom to still be there, considering, y'know, she had a ...job. She still couldn't help feeling a little sad, though. Mae thew together some cereal and an Eggo waffle - a delicious combination, despite what everyone else seemed to think. Losers. They didn't know how to appreciate good food. After dumping her bowl into the sink, Mae disappeared out the door and into the quiet atmosphere of Possum Springs. The door to The Ol' Pickaxe jingled softly, and Mae sauntered up to the counter, and plopped herself down on it. "Hey, Bea!" Amused, Bea continued to stock the register. "Hey, Mae." "So," Mae shifted around, "how's the Pickaxe?" "Trying to kill me." Bea muttered. "Unsuccessfully, thus far at least." "What's so stressful?" "Well, on top of everything else, we're hosting that Harfest play tomorrow." Bea grumbled, tapped out numbers on her keyboard and absently handing a customer their receipt. "Oh, wooooooooww. Lucky you." Mae snickered. "Yeah. I'm never offering to help with this again." Mae swung her legs, bouncing on the counter. "So, what are you up to tonight?" Bea raised an eyebrow. "Uh. Nothing?" She shook her head. "I'm, like, super tired." Frowning now, Bea began organizing a list of fluorescent labels in a pattern Mae didn't really want to decipher. "Because everything in my life is exhausting. And I'm doing the work of like /three/ employees, plus a store owner. Even though I'm one employee, and I /do not own this store/!" Bea's husky, low voice quickly rose in volume, and she ended the sentence with something near a shout as she slammed down her pen with a bang. "Oh," Mae said helpfully, "weird." Bea gave another worn out sigh, and for the first time Mae noticed how /tired/ she looked. She did a good job of hiding with her black, expertly applied eyeshadow, but creases and dark circles were still visible if you looked closer. "I thought for some reason you owned this place now." Mae said. Bea let out a derisive laugh. "You'd think. Actually, though, I'd rather die. Like, make me a coffin using tools from this store, and bury me literally anywhere else." "Wow. That got intense." A drawer clicked as Bea slid her finished work into a file. "Aaaaagh. Sorry I'm so high strung." Mae scuffed her shoes against the counter, attracting a dirty look from an employee across the store. "It's chill." "Anyway. I'm doing nothing tonight." Mae perked up, sitting a little taller. "I can do nothing too!" There was a beat of dead quiet. "Fine." Mae did a little victory dance to herself, pumping a fist into the air. "Nice!" "So, are we doing this now? My shift is over soon." "Yeah! Let's hang out!" Bea began packing up, wrangling a set of several scratched keys. "I don't having anything very interesting to do. I'm just knocking off work early to pick up some groceries." Mae shrugged, and hopped off the counter. "That's fine!" Bea shouted to the other on-duty employee that she was leaving early, giving them a glare that just dared them the contradict her. As Bea turned around, Mae stuck her tongue out and waved at the employee, reveling in her retribution. Take that, capitalism! ------------------------------------------ "-And that's why U.S. pennies aren't 100% copper." Mae rambled. "You sure know a lot of useless shit." "Yep! That's my specialty. Knowing useless shit and beating things up." "It's a good combination." Bea snorted. The two walked side by side in the Ham Panther, Bea adding various items to her red plastic basket, and Mae salivating over the snack section. Bea held up a can of corn, examining it before dropping it in with the myriad of other food items. "OK. I need to grab a few things quick." "Aww, I thought we were gonna hang out!" "Uh. We are hanging out. I'm just here to grab something for dinner for Dad and me. I don't feel like ordering again." Mae beamed widely. "Let me pick out what we have!" Bea choked, grinning slightly. "Oh, I'm sorry. You're coming to dinner?" "Can I?" The older girl let out a disbelieving laugh. "Um. I guess?" Mae fluttered her eyelashes, smiling saccharinely. "Are you asking?" "I wasn't." Mae snapped her fingers. "Damn." "I wasn't, but now it feels weird not to..." "Great! Then I'll pick out what we have to eat!" Mae yanked the basket from Bea's arm, and began speeding down an aisle, when she felt someone grab onto her arm. Bea looked at her carefully. "Wait, you're actually serious?" Mae nodded excitedly. "You know what? Go for it. I hate shopping. We need a main course and like, two sides?" Smiling brighter than ever, Mae pointed at her beloved snack aisle. "Dessert?" "We're not children." "Appetizer?" "We're on a /budget/, Mae." Still not letting go, Bea held Mae out at arms length. "And no shoplifting. I can afford a few groceries, and this place has cameras." "Good point." Mae complied. Bea let her arm fall away, and the self-proclaimed 'fierce warrior' sped down a random aisle with a clumsy salute. She quickly grabbed the brightest and most colorful looking can, which turned out to be chicken noodle soup (with stars!). Then, satisfied with that decision, Mae sprinted toward the boxed, 'make it yourself' aisle, yanking some 'Nice Rice' off the shelf. Niiiiice riiice. Mmm, great. Shoes screeching on the shiny tiled floor, Mae sharply turned into the refrigerator aisle, eyes flicking over the array of goods stacked neatly. She tossed a roll of off-brand biscuits into her basket, not really even looking at what she grabbed. Facing her own invisible time limit, Mae booked it back to where Bea was meandering under the Ham Panther's fluorescent lights. "That was quick." Panting, Mae rested her hands on her knees. "Haah.... Good..." Mae looked up, still out of breath. "My dad, uh, works at the deli! We could get meat from there." "Lead the way." As they walked, Mae noticed Shakey Bakey was on sale. Nice. That stuff was awesome. She added it to the basket. Over at the Deli Counter, Mae's father, a kind of robust (but lovable!) man, was working the cash register, fully decked out with apron, hair net, and thin rubber gloves. "Ladies!" He greeted. "Hey, Dad." "Bea, long time no see!" Bea smiled politely. "How are you, Mr. Borowski?" "Can't complain." Mr. Borowski's chest shook as laughed. "Just me and the meats." He smiled, patting a fish fillet. "Still weird seeing you here, Dad." Mae chimed in. "Beats the alternative!" Bea furrowed her eyebrows. "What's the alternative?" "Unemployment." "Oh." He smiled cheerfully, his eyes crinkling up around the edges. "So what are you lovely ladies doing here?" "Just grabbing something for dinner." "How's your dad?" Bea's expression darkened briefly. "Alright." Mae's father nodded absently. "What can I get for you?" Gesturing to Mae, Bea took a step back, allowing the smaller of the two to press her hands on the glass display counter, scrutinizing their options. "She's picking." "One of your best fishes, please!" Bea hummed vaguely. "Whatever's good. Dinner for three people, nothing pricey." Mr. Borowski slid out a tray of fish, wrapping one in paper. "Bea, you should come by for dinner sometime!" Mae's heart immediately froze, and she repressed the urge to bolt out the door, steal Bea's truck, and never return. While her body was unfortunately stuck here, her brain was already far gone. "A-at the Ham Panther?" She stumbled. "At home, Mae. I'll grill us up something nice!" Bea was calm as ever, and Mae almost hated her for it. "That'd be nice. Thank you." "Ok-ok, let's check out!" Mae said, hastily shoving her basket at her dad, who was trying not to smile. Pulling out a cigarette, Bea flicked her lighter, much to Mae's distaste. "I'm not even looking at what you got. That is how straight up tired I am." "It's gonna be great!" "If you say so. Let's keep moving." Mae's father began bagging their groceries. "Hmm. Hmm, yes, okay. Oh? Well that's... interesting." "Interesting?" Mae said hopefully. "Maybe I'm just behind the times. Have a nice day, girls." Bea grabbed her keys and their bags. "Alright. Thanks, Mr. Borowski." "See you later, Dad!" Her father gave a little wave, as the two departed from the Ham Panther, and into Bea's car. That was his girl. Awkward and odd, but with a good heart. ------------------------------------------ Bea's apartment was messy. It looked like someone had /attempted/ to keep it clean, but over time it had just fallen into despair. Mae didn't miss the nervous little glances Bea shot her when she thought she couldn't see, nor the way her body tensed up as they walked through the doorway. Seeing the disarray the house was in, Mae felt a little less... underdressed than before. She looked over at Bea, waiting for her to extinguish her cigarette. She didn't. "I'm home." She yelled out. The couch- wait, no, a /person/ on the couch- answered back. "You're early." Bea set the groceries on the table, leading Mae to a slightly scratched chair. "We're having someone over. Do you remember Mae?" Mae gave a little wave, and the figure on the couch grunted. Grabbing a pan from under a cupboard, Bea started preheating the stove. Motioning for Mae to help, she began spouting off instructions. "Butter. Top shelf in the refrigerator. Add it to the pan, and then stir in the rice. When you're done with that, grab the biscuits and open them." "Aye-aye!" In about a half hour of splattering, sarcasm, and Mae stealing a taste of food whenever Bea turned around, dinner was cooked. "No, don't touch the oven. I don't need a house fire." "I was ten!" Mae cried indignantly. "Pyromania is for life." As Bea pulled the fish from the oven, her father stood up, and seated himself at the table. "Nice to see you, Mae. Been awhile." Mae raised her eyebrows at the quick attitude change, but gave a nervous smile in return. "Uh... Hi?" "Um." Bea said. "Huh?" "You.... Put Shakey Bakey. On fish." "So?" "Just take a bite." Mae bit into the crispy fish, and almost gagged. It tasted spicy, sour, and a whole bunch of other things that fish should definitely not taste like. "Oh." Bea sighed. "Yeah. 'Oh' about sums it up. Dad, do you want me to order a pizza?" "Go ahead." Suddenly filled with guilt, embarrassment prickled over Mae's skin. "Did I ruin dinner?" Mr. Santello laughed- a far cry from his attitude when Mae arrived. It was a little unnerving. "Yep. But we'll live, I think. The fish just didn't work out." Mae fidgeted and looked away. "I thought: Hey, fish is good. Shakey Bakey is good..." Bea snorted. "Did you like it?" "No, I agree. It's pretty terrible." With that, Mr. Santello made his way back to the couch, and flicked on the T.V. Bea sat next to him, and started talking business, leaving Mae to only be vaguely tuned in, and staring at the putrid orange walls. "So, we're all paid up 'til the 15th next month." Bea's father grunted. "Alright. That rock salt sorted?" "Yeah, should be fine." She was looking away now, a crease forming on her high forehead, and her posture tense. "Okay, uh, I need you to sign some things. Left them on the table." "Think I might just get to 'em." "Please do. We have to pay the guys in a few days." "I don't need you to remind me." There was a prolonged beat of silence, and Mae could swear the temperature dropped a few degrees. Bea pursed her lips. "I know, but-" "I /don't/, Beatrice. Whose name is on the deed?" "...Yours, Dad." "Whose names on the checks?" Bea was almost perfectly still now, her fingers clutching the armrest so hard they were turning pale. "Yours." She ground out. Mae wanted so badly to pipe up, but before she could say a word, Bea shot her a Look. It wasn't harsh, nor a glare like she gave her co-worker. It was almost a ...plea. Like she was silently begging her to shut up. So, Mae did. But she wasn't happy about it. Bea stood up stiffly. "Mae and I are gonna hang out in my room." Mr. Santello smiled kindly. "You girls have a nice time! Thanks for dinner, Mae." "O...kay." "C'mon, Mae." Bea muttered. Mae lingered around for a few seconds, running a hand over the apartment's chipped and cracked walls. Bea. Badass, smart, always calm and cool Bea lived /here/. For as cynical and sarcastic as she was, there was no way Bea was okay with that. ((NO TRANSITION SENTENCE BC I CAN'T THINK OF ONE)) Bea's room was filled with an array of boxes, some semi-unpacked, and some completely untouched. There was a laundry hamper pushed to a corner, and a laptop laying on the carpet, plugged into an outlet. Bea herself was curled up on a tiny, rickety blue wooden bed, her heavy-lidded eyes only half open. "So... Did you guys move in recently?" Mae questioned. "10 months ago." "Why aren't you unpacked?" Bea just shifted over, fiddling with a loose string on the bed, wrapping it over her finger again and again. "So I've got a question." Mae said. "Mmhmm?" "Your dad is kinda up and down, huh?" "He has good days, and bad days. Often in the same day." "Haha, Gregg's always been like that too. Just more...uh... zany about it." "Well Gregg is most likely bi-polar, or on the autism spectrum. He's never actually told me the specifics." "Yeah, he doesn't talk about it much. But thanks, Doctor Bea." "My pleasure. Whereas, my dad is having a years long breakdown." "You run the whole store now, right?" "More or less." "Yeah," Mae huffed, "but it's still his name on everything." "Yep." "And meanwhile, you're running basically /everything/." "Yep. And! And! Working there /every day/ too. Yep." "I just think you shouldn't! I mean, I would probably just quit. Or, like, take over the store. Like, you not doing anything just reinforces-" The string Bea was pulling on snapped. "Is this really the road you want to go down with this?" Mae clenched her jaw. "I'm /saying/ it's not right that you roll over and take it." Bea's voice was dangerously calm, and Mae was sightly taken aback. "Take it?" "Take it?!" Her words were filled with a seething, dark anger, and it took all of Mae's willpower not to back up. "You're doing all the work, and he's getting all the credit!" Mae snapped. "Oh, go to Hell." Mae's jaw dropped, and she stared at her friend. "Why? What is your /problem/?" Bea's eyes were squeezed shut now, and her mouth was twisted into a grimace. "Here's some reality for you: You know Creek? Repair guy Creek, at the shop?" "...Yeah?" "When I was fifteen he asked my dad if he could teach my how to drive. And my dad said no, and then told me not to be alone with him." "Oh my God." Mae whispered. "Yeah. Exactly. And you know what? He still works for us." "Why haven't you fired him?!" "I can't fire people! And, even if I could, he's on the crew. Frankly, he's our best guy. Practically heads up the repair team, since my dad's not doing anything!" Bea's voice was losing it's anger, and melting into disdain and exhaustion. "Creek's got a family, and he needs to work." "I'm gonna be sick." "Yeah! Me too! I have /no power/, Mae, and I can't change that." Mae paused, not caring that she was being blunt. "I'm just saying, if you keep letting these dudes off the hook-" "Off the hook?!" "Like, you're stronger than this, Bea." Mae gestured wildly. "You're like... Badass, and shit!" Bea froze. "Y-you..." Bea slowly sat up, and rose to her full height. Fueled by anger, Mae stared Bea dead in the eye, stepping forward. Every inch of Bea seemed to be dripping with fury, outrage, and most surprisingly... hurt? Bea's temper was barely in check, and Mae could see her fists clenching and unclenching at her sides. All of her features that had before seemed pretty, were now imposing. Her dark eyeshadow made her eyes look fierce, and cold. Her long painted nails brought on thoughts of metal screeching on a chalkboard. Her half shaven head, and the little knobs of black hair bunched up at the back stopped being cool, and started being foreign, and odd. It's amazing how different things seem when you look through a different perspective. "Badass?" Her voice was trembling now. "My mom dying was not very 'badass'." "Me sitting in this tiny, mess of a room complaining is not very 'badass'." Her voice cracked, and she gritted her teeth. Tears were glinting in Bea's eyes, and Mae's fury and delusion began dissipating on the spot. "I... Okay, sorry, I-" "Your are such a shithead, you know that?" "What the hell?" Nope, never mind. It was back. "You don't get it, Mae. Most people can't just get up and 'choose' to do whatever it is you decree to be the right thing! Because they /can't/ do anything else!" "You can /always/ choose." "Choose what?" Bea's voice was scathing. "No, tell me. What is my choice here?" "Tell your dad you're not gonna take this!" Mae shouted. Really, it was surprising he hadn't heard them screaming already. "Tell him what? What is your magic solution, that /I/ need to do?" Mae opened her mouth to respond, but Bea held up a hand, silencing her. "I am seriously gonna punch your goddamn lights out." Bea didn't break eye contact, but her voice lost some of its wrath, exhaustion overlaying her tone. "You come in here and start telling me how /I'm/ screwing things up? You want to come in here and say, 'Oh yeah, just ditch your dad, who is both getting old, and can barely get off the couch half the time'? You want to come in here and say, 'Oh yeah, just start this big drama, and make your life way more stressful?'" "It's just not right is what I'm saying!" Mae said, ignoring the guilt prickling over her. "Yeah. It isn't. Nothing's right. The whole effing world isn't right. Like Gregg is probably off doing /God knows/ what wacky shit right now, and I'm here making an awful dinner and doing payroll. You know, like, /nothing/ about my life. You just know what I should do." Mae bit the inside of her cheek. "And you- you're the last person I'd ask for advice." Bea said. Mae finally looked away, staring down at the musty, worn carpet. "Okay, okay, I'm sorry." Bea's voice was raspy, and tired. "Yeah, you're sorry. Everyone's sorry. But you don't get it. You did what you wanted. You threw away the thing that I've always wanted- that I've dreamt about for years. And now you're here, waltzing in and telling me I should do the same with my life. But I can't, Mae. I have responsibilities. This is it for me. This is all I have, and I can't just walk away from it." Mae looked up, and Bea looked like a hollow shell of herself. Eyes tired, posture weary, face drawn, and sad. "I should go." Mae whispered. "You should go." And with that, Mae departed from the tiny, rundown house, and walked home. ------------------------------------------ ((I wanted to add another scene in here, one that wasn't included in the real bit, but idk what to do???? bc rn its basically a rewrite, with added dialogue and emotion and monologue??? if u have any thoughts let me kno!))

New York University students who returned to campus this week are forced to quarantine in their dorms as part of the school’s enhanced coronavirus safety protocols. The school is delivering all meals to students — but things haven’t exactly gone smoothly.  Over 2,600 students are not allowed to leave their residence halls for two weeks under a mandate from Governor Andrew Cuomo, and many of them are sharing the less-than-optimal meals they have received so far on TikTok. NYU students appear to have taken over the app — dozens have posted now-viral videos demanding the school improve its quarantine meal plan.  According to the school, students living in dorms are meant to receive three meals each day, which arrive at their dorms in cardboard boxes and paper bags. They were asked to specify any allergies and dietary restrictions ahead of time. In a video posted to TikTok that now has over 2.6 million views, freshman Madison Veldman showed what she received for breakfast: bottled water, a plain bagel in sealed packaging, a croissant in sealed packaging and grape juice in a plastic container. In another video, freshman Nautica Nolden said she got no breakfast or lunch — all three of her meals were delivered at 6 p.m., including dry cereal, “warm” orange juice, and a now-infamous salad consisting of watermelon and chicken.  Some other food items highlighted in students’ videos include bags of chips, pudding cups, lemons, granola bars, plain chicken, unripe fruit, cheese sticks and bread rolls. Many students requested vegetarian or vegan meals reported receiving meat products, including a “steak and cheese salad” and a “Moroccan spiced chicken bowl.”  Many students also say that their meals arrive at arbitrary times. Nolden told CBS News on Friday that the school has repeatedly failed to deliver her breakfast and lunch, so she has resorted to making a lot of her own food. Nolden also said she, and many other students, ordered dinners through DoorDash, “but that gets to be pricey on our already high tuition.” Several students pointed out that ordering take-out for two weeks is not feasible for low-income students.  Many students said in follow-up videos that they did not want to come off as ungrateful and acknowledged that many Americans are experiencing food insecurity during the pandemic. But given NYU’s infamously exorbitant tuition, students said they felt the school could do more.  “We’re not being ungrateful, it’s just unsustainable,” Veldman said. Tara Shear, also a freshman, has shared several now-viral videos showing the random assortment of food she’s received, including a stale muffin and spiced watermelon. Shear told CBS News on Friday that ordering delivery from local restaurants is far too expensive for most students in dorms.  “Those of us who are dorming on campus are not the demographic of NYU students who can afford to quarantine off-campus in a hotel,” Shear said. “When NYU told us we would be provided three meals a day free of charge, we assumed we would be getting fed properly, but many of us brought snacks in case we went hungry.” Shear said she has received many products that contain dairy despite having an allergy — a problem echoed by many students with dairy and gluten intolerances. She added that her dinner one night consisted of a bag of potato chips, two granola bars and a lemon.  “These are not substantial meals,” Shear said. “These are snacks.” Freshman Ricardo Sheler’s video of his meal, which has over 1.8 million views, shows off his “chicken caesar salad” dinner, which included a bag of chips, an apple and salad dressing — but no salad. Sheler told CBS News on Friday that his dorm manager has now offered to personally deliver complimentary meals to students in his Brooklyn dorm.  Students and New York residents have come together to support those who are most vulnerable, sending them money through Venmo, PayPal and Cashapp and dropping off baked goods at dorms. However, students said they would prefer to hold the school accountable for meals.  NYU responded to the critiques Thursday, saying that it is disappointed in how its food vendor, Chartwells, has managed the process. “We are aware of the students’ complaints, which are valid,” NYU spokesman John Beckman said in a statement. “This is a never-before-tried operation for us… But it is vital to get it right.”  Beckman said the school is implementing a number of changes, including ensuring meals are delivered earlier in the day, adding staff to handle complaints and to deliver food, dedicating staff to specifically handle meals with dietary specializations, bringing in another food service provider, and authorizing staff to give students money for delivery.  “We recognize that when people are required to quarantine in their rooms by themselves, few things in the day are more important than looking forward to something nice to eat, so this is a particularly regrettable error, and a let-down for our students,” Beckman said. Some students reported receiving meals Friday morning, but Sheler said he and his roommates had not gotten any food as of 1:20 p.m. “So as of right now all changes are essentially performative and not practical,” he said. Nolden said she has seen that more students are receiving food on time, but said that they are still not substantial meals, typically consisting of fruit and a snack.  NYU also sent students an apology letter Thursday night, gifting each of them a $100 e-card to order food delivery, which Sheler called a “cushion” that the school is using to buy itself more time. The letter did not address exactly how that system would work, and students said they have not yet received the credit. “NYU is trying to help us, I suppose,” Shear said. “It just isn’t enough to cover our needs.” Despite the food situation, many students say the school is handling the return to campus well, and implementing every possible safety measure to allow for a “normal” semester. “I truly think we are doing insanely well,” Shear said. “I personally was tested for COVID-19 immediately after moving in, and although the wait was long, not one student could be seen without a mask or not social distancing. As a community, we do not want to be sent home.” Many students said they are hopeful NYU won’t have to send them home early, like many other schools have done, due to its strict policies.  “Despite the food issues, I really appreciate all that NYU is doing for us,” Nolden said. “They really are trying to keep cases down and keep us healthy and in-person. I believe their pre-quarantine and testing measures are above and stricter than a lot of other universities.” However, students are still hoping the school steps up to improve their quarantine experience.  “If NYU wants to uphold the wide-scale operational integrity of the quarantine and they expect students to make sacrifices in order to ensure campus safety, they have to uphold their end of the deal by making a comfortable quarantine environment that’s conducive to conditions incentivizing compliance on the students’ end,” Sheler said.  “NYU is cracking down on safety, and we do truly feel safe here,” Shear said. “We are just hungry.” https://ift.tt/3hjc5Nn The post Students stuck in their dorms are exposing NYU’s sad quarantine meals on TikTok— and demanding the school do better appeared first on Shri Times News. from WordPress https://ift.tt/3aN1lnP

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The NYC Hit List The Best New Restaurants In NYC (1)

Wondering where you should be eating in New York City right now? You’re in the right place. The Infatuation Hit List is your guide to the city’s best new restaurants.

And when we say “best new restaurants,” we mean it. Because we’ve tried every single one of these places - and we’ve also left off countless spots that simply aren’t as worthy of your time and money.

The Hit List is our record of every restaurant that’s opened in the past year that we’d highly recommend you try. This guide is sorted chronologically, so at the top you’ll find our latest entries to this list (the newest spots), and as you keep scrolling you’ll find the places that are on the older side - but are great enough that we still haven’t stopped talking about them.

New to The NYC Hit List (as of 2/28/20): Thai Diner, Rule Of Thirds, Bolero

Some spots you might have heard about that didn’t make the cut: Da Toscano, American Bar, 232 Bleecker, Būmu, Torien, Nowon, Portale, Leo, Il Fiorista, and Gotham Bar And Grill

And for more in-depth guides to the best new Brooklyn or Uptown spots, check out the Brooklyn Hit List and the Uptown Hit List.

The Spots  Thai Diner Thai Diner $$$$ 186 Mott St

Thai Diner is the most exciting place for breakfast or lunch right now. Eating at this Nolita diner from the Uncle Boons team feels like attending a party in a wicker basket that’s stocked with papaya, coconut, and Thai basil smoothies and chicken and rice tom yum soup. Whether it’s 7:30am when they open, or late in the afternoon before they close, both the Thai tea babka French Toast and green curry with chicken-stuffed cabbage should be on your table. Expect lines on weekends - that’s just what happens when a restaurant this special comes along.

 Bolero Bolero $ $ $ $ Vietnamese  in  Brooklyn ,  Williamsburg $$$$ 177 Bedford Ave Not

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Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg is good for lots of things (like overpaying for minimalist jewelry and getting lectured about water damage at the Genius Bar) but having a nice dinner isn’t one of them. That’s changed thanks to Bolero, a casual Vietnamese spot with less casual food from chefs who worked at very high-end restaurants like Blue Hill At Stone Barns and Benu in San Francisco. The menu is primarily made up of small plates - like fried dough packed with crab and pork, and delicious glass dumplings filled with earthy mushrooms. Share a few of these with a date at the counter overlooking the open kitchen, or come with a group and order the whole menu in the dining room that’s covered in handheld radios and mosquito netted light fixtures. Just know that they’re still waiting on a liquor license.

 Gary Landsman Rule Of Thirds $ $ $ $ Japanese  in  Brooklyn ,  Greenpoint $$$$ 172 Banker St Not

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There’s a refrigerated glass case in the middle of the dining room at Rule Of Thirds. It’s full of sake, and you should order some - if only to have something to toast with when someone stands on the bar asks everyone to say “Kanpai.” This Japanese restaurant in Greenpoint from the people behind Sunday in Brooklyn is a great spot for a fun group meal, and the izakaya-style food is perfect for sharing. Get the Kyoto-style pressed sushi topped with some colorful radishes that make the dish look like a pricey piece of home decor, and finish with the huge, crispy tonkatsu. The space is enormous with high ceilings and lots of blonde wood, and there’s a big U-shaped bar where you can hang out and drink a cocktail out of a grapefruit.

 Quality Bistro $ $ $ $ French  in  Midtown $$$$ 120 W 55th St Not

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Quality Bistro is a massive French restaurant in Midtown that has about as much gold detailing as the Salon of Venus at Versailles. The 400-bottle French wine list and the four filet mignon options might make it sound like a place to send in-laws before 6pm tickets for Chicago, but this place - from the people behind Don Angie, Quality Meats, and about 10 other popular spots - isn’t stuffy. There’s a casual bar area that gets packed with after-work crowds, and dining rooms that are louder and darker than your typical spin class. Share big portions of excellent French-leaning food with a date who you want to impress, or clients who purposefully didn’t book early flights tomorrow.

 Peoples Wine $ $ $ $ Wine Bar  in  Lower East Side $$$$ 115 Delancey St

We’re currently more impressed with Peoples Wine than we are with any candidate running for president or the poodle who won the Westminster Dog Show. The first reason being, this bar from the Contra and Wildair team serves great snacks as well as natural wine you either haven’t heard of or you already love. And the second is that Peoples has somehow created a space where you’ll want to spend multiple hours, despite the fact that it’s located in the basement of a LES food hall.

 Dan Ahn Jua $ $ $ $ Korean  in  Flatiron $$$$ 36 E 22nd St Not

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Jua is from the group behind Atomix and one of our all-time Greatest Hits, Her Name Is Han. What we’re trying to say is, we can’t remember the last time we were so excited to go to Flatiron. This Korean restaurant’s space falls somewhere between special-occasion Atomix and group-friendly Her Name Is Han, but with food that has something in common with both - we’re still thinking about it long after leaving. Dinner starts with deep-fried seaweed wrapped around uni and a ton of caviar, and the next eight dishes on the $95 tasting menu, including a bunch of things cooked on the wood-fired grill, are just as memorable. While you can order a la carte, you should come here for the two-hour set menu and share a bottle of natural wine with a date.

 Verōnika $ $ $ $ European  in  Flatiron ,  Gramercy $$$$ 281 Park Ave S Not

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If there were an Oscars ceremony for restaurants, we’d feel comfortable nominating Verōnika for several categories, like Best Borscht, and Best Impression Of a 19th-Century Aristocrat’s Clubhouse. Even if Verōnika’s Eastern European food weren’t elegant and delicious (it is), the room alone could make your night - from portraits of powerful women on the walls and little Bauhaus-style lamps on every table, to ceilings so high it’s almost inappropriate not to have a firehouse pole. Verōnika is unquestionably formal, but after a few visits, the food is what stands out here compared to other special occasion spots in the city. You’ll find Eastern European classics, like porky borscht, lamb goulash with nicely chewy spätzle, as well as black cod dish with a lemony beurre blanc sauce that will be memorialized in our hearts and minds for years to come.

 Chikarashi Isso Chikarashi Isso $ $ $ $ Japanese  in  Financial District $$$$ 38 Rector St Not

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Like Richie and Chas Tenenbaum, you wouldn’t know Chikarashi and Chikarashi Isso were related if it weren’t for the name. Whereas Chikarashi draws long lunch lines for fast-casual poke bowls, Chikarashi Isso is a high-end Japanese restaurant in FiDi where you’ll find wagyu with caviar and wok lobster with soft shell shrimp. And despite a diverse menu with tempura, yakitori, and soba, each of these dishes could pass as the restaurant’s specialty. That’s especially the case with the yakitori, and it’s why the chef’s selection of six delicious skewers of chicken and vegetables needs to be on your table. Come here for a laidback business meal the next time you’re near the Stock Exchange.

 Itay Paz Zizi $ $ $ $ Middle Eastern  in  Chelsea $$$$ 182 8th Ave Not

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The first law of thermodynamics states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, but that it can change forms and locations. While we never understood it in high school, we think we get it now after eating at ZiZi. What Williamsburg lost when Zizi Limona (a utility spot that worked for everything from group brunch to dinner with parents) closed in September, Chelsea gained when ZiZi opened there a month later. The menu at this casual Middle-Eastern spot is almost identical, including a fantastic shawarma plate with juicy chicken and lamb over creamy hummus, and the space even looks similar, with lots of exposed brick, a small bar lined with wine bottles, and a couple of tables on the sidewalk outside.

 Melissa Hom Piggyback $ $ $ $ Thai ,  Filipino  in  Chelsea ,  Koreatown $$$$ 140 W 30th St Not

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People are constantly asking us where they can sit down and grab a dinner that won’t make them sad around Penn Station. Koreatown has a bunch of great spots, and Farida is only about six blocks away - but Piggyback is now the best option within several hundred feet. It’s from the same people behind Pig and Khao, and the menu is a mix of mostly Southeast Asian things like lumpia, Thai fried rice, and a big bowl of crudo with grapefruit, cashews, and crunchy strips of pork. We especially like the flaky curry puffs stuffed with a very large handful of heavily-spiced beef, and we suggest you stop by the next time you find yourself around 30th street to get them. Bring a few friends. It’s a fun spot with loud music and murals on the walls, and they make some solid cocktails.

 Tyson Greenwood Kindred $ $ $ $ Pasta ,  Mediterranean ,  Wine Bar  in  East Village $$$$ 342 E 6th St Not

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Ruffian is one of our favorite wine bars in NYC, and the only reason we hesitate to recommend it to everyone is the fact that the 19-seat space tends to fill up before most people get out of work. But you don’t need to run the risk of a two-hour wait for excellent Mediterranean food and natural wines in the East Village anymore because Kindred, which is from the same people, opened around the corner. The small bar area up front is great for small plates and Happy Hour drinks, but unlike Ruffian, there’s also a full dining room. Come here with a date, and share some Slovenian orange wine and housemade pasta.

 Rachel Vanni Ernesto's $ $ $ $ Spanish ,  French  in  Lower East Side ,  Two Bridges $$$$ 259 E Broadway 7.4 /10

Ernesto’s is the new restaurant we’re getting asked about the most. It’s a Basque-inspired place that’s already packed with people eating pinxtos, sitting in leather chairs we’d like to own, surrounded by red brick and gold fixtures and globe lights. On a first visit, we weren’t blown away by the food - with the exception of a tower of housemade potato chips and iberico ham - but the restaurant experience made up for it. It’s a place where you want to hang for a while, or as long as the sommelier/wine whisperer keeps suggesting different half-glasses of French and Spanish natural wines for you to try.

 Noods n' Chill Noods n’ Chill $ $ $ $ Thai  in  Brooklyn ,  Williamsburg $$$$ 170 S 3rd St 8.4 /10

Let’s get one thing out of the way: Noods n’ Chill is not a great name. It sounds like an upstate retreat with a lax dress code or a text you’d receive from an unsaved number at 12am. But none of that matters. Because Noods N’ Chill is where you’ll find the best Thai food in Williamsburg. This tiny counter-service spot is from the same people behind Look By Plant Love House (one of our favorite Thai restaurants in the city), and most things here cost less than $15. The guay tiao tom yum soup - with its spicy broth, tender fish balls, and abundant noodles - is an excellent choice, and you should go ahead and get a few pork buns to start your meal. Try this place for a casual weeknight dinner (that’s better than most) or stop by for brunch, when there’s stuff like kaya toast and porridge.

 Marko Macpherson Bar Bête $ $ $ $ French  in  Carroll Gardens ,  Cobble Hill $$$$ 263 Smith St Not

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Bar Bête is NYC’s latest restaurant serving roast chicken on marble tables beneath large hanging globe lights. But this trendy Cobble Hill spot has more to offer than the possibility of a Bon Appetit staff member sighting. It’s where you should absolutely have dinner with a date in the area. The simple reason being, they serve thoughtful and delicious French food (like a peekytoe crab omelette) that makes ordering the roast chicken seem about as inspiring as proposing to someone at a Yankees game. So don’t write it off as just another trendy roast chicken restaurant.

 Noah Fecks Banty Rooster $ $ $ $ American  in  West Village $$$$ 24 Greenwich Ave Not

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The Banty Rooster is a rare example of a West Village place that exceeded our expectations. At first glance, this casual American spot feels like countless other places in the area serving potato fritters and short rib. But then you’ll notice that the fritters are served with salt cod aioli and the short rib crumbles when you dip it in the side of ancho barbecue sauce. Between the food, big space, and affordable wine offerings, this place should be at the top of your list for your next group dinner in the West Village.

 Melissa Hom Kochi $ $ $ $ Korean  in  Hell's Kitchen ,  Midtown $$$$ 652 10th Ave Not

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We’ve long championed eating things on sticks. But while seven of the nine courses at Kochi are served on skewers, that’s not the reason we’re telling you to go. You should go to this Korean tasting menu spot in Hell’s Kitchen because everything from the raw scallops and fluke at the beginning of the meal to the black sesame ice cream pop at the end is delicious. You’ll leave feeling full, and considering the variety and quality of everything here (including bibimbap topped with tons of uni), the $75 price tag feels reasonable, especially while it’s still BYOB.

 Liz Clayman Le Crocodile $ $ $ $ French  in  Brooklyn ,  Williamsburg $$$$ 80 Wythe Ave 8.2 /10

The restaurant space in the bottom of the Wythe Hotel has always been one of our favorites. It has huge windows, high ceilings, and brick walls that wouldn’t feel out of place in a rural castle from the fifteenth century. And now that Le Crocodile has moved in, we’d like to eat there every day. This French restaurant is from the people behind Chez Ma Tante in Greenpoint, and the menu is equal parts traditional and exciting. You’ll find escargots and steak tartare, for example, and it also has a pork chop covered in burrata and some roast chicken with several fistfuls of fries on the side. Order all of these things. And be sure to book a table before more people realize they should eat here.

 Anton's $ $ $ $ American ,  Italian  in  West Village $$$$ 570 Hudson St 8.2 /10

Anton’s might have only just replaced Frankie’s 570 in the West Village, but it feels like this Italian restaurant has both been around forever and is here to stay. On our first visit a week into service, it was already running like a well-oiled machine, and almost everything we tried we’d want to eat again. With its dark wood, long bar, and ideal amount of candlelight, it’s the kind of place that makes you want to become a regular who has a standing martini and steak and/or pasta order. Speaking of which, the pastas are where we’d recommend you focus your order.

 Flora Hanitijo Mina's $ $ $ $ Greek  in  Long Island City $$$$ 22-25 Jackson Ave Not

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Not all museum restaurants are created equal. And Mina’s, the new Greek small plates spot in MoMA PS1, is proof. Unlike most museum cafeterias or upscale restaurants that feel like museums themselves, Mina’s is both casual and pleasant. The bright space is ideal for a brunch or snack involving things like a creamy muhammara, perfectly oily anchovies, and an excellent Greek egg and cheese boat peinirli. Take someone here who likes natural wine, Sally Rooney books, and the color seafoam. They’ll want to move in.

 The Riddler The Riddler $ $ $ $ American ,  French ,  Raw Bar  in  West Village $$$$ 51 Bank St 8.1 /10

While we were drinking from a Chambong at The Riddler in the West Village, the couple at the table over stared at us, so transfixed by what they were seeing that they forgot they were holding shrimp cocktail in midair. Whether you want to have a classy evening involving raw bar and several glasses of Champagne, or debauchery by way of Chambong and glasses of wine filled to the literal brim, you’ll have a good time at this Champagne bar in the West Village. Just be sure to order the raclette burger and to make a reservation - the space is small and there’s very little room for walk-ins.

 Zooba $ $ $ $ Middle Eastern ,  Egyptian  in  Nolita $$$$ 100 Kenmare St 8.5 /10

Zooba is a fast-casual restaurant in the same way that Bob Ross is a watercolor painter. It’s technically true, but there’s a lot more exciting context. This is the first US location of an Egyptian spot with several locations in Cairo, and it’s officially where you should be getting lunch or a quick dinner in the Soho area. The ceiling in here is covered with neon signs and it’s pretty difficult not to admire the flashing lights above you while you wait in line. But the food is more memorable than any of that. The specialty is the ta’ameya (fried balls made out of fava beans), which you can and should order spicy, but we also love the hawawshi beef patty sandwich with cheese. Most things come on a soft homemade Egyptian pita called baladi and everything costs under $15. If you work anywhere downtown - we suggest beelining here.

 Nami Nori $ $ $ $ Sushi  in  West Village $$$$ 33 Carmine St 7.6 /10

Nami Nori feels like a tiny West Village boutique or a cinematic version of the afterlife. It’s a bright and attractive space on Carmine Street with two bars and just a handful of tables, and pretty much everything is either white, off-white, or a soothing shade of light brown. They specialize in hand rolls that are left open like tacos (instead of being cylindrical or cone-shaped). And of the 20 different kinds - like tuna poke with crispy shallots, lobster tempura with yuzu aioli, and a few classic varieties - the least-complicated ones are the best. For $28 you can get a chef’s selection of five rolls, and there are also a bunch of small plates like shishito peppers and miso clam soup, most of which cost less than $10. Start with one or two of those, get the chef’s selection, and you’ll have a very good and reasonably priced (for sushi) meal.

 Noah Devereaux Sushi Jin $ $ $ $ Japanese ,  Sushi  in  Upper East Side $$$$ 316 E 84th St 8.1 /10

You’ll know you’ve reached Sushi Jin when you see a koi fish flag hanging outside of a brownstone on 84th Street on the UES. This is the most exciting new omakase place we’ve been to this year, especially because dinner here will involve an uni handroll and won’t cost more than $100. The $95 option comes with 12 pieces of fish (including that handroll) presented like a valuable collection of baseball cards - as well as soup, dessert, and green tea. Each piece of sushi - like sea eel from the Tokyo Bay, cherry sea bream, or seared Japanese barracuda - is thoughtfully dressed with dabs of sauce, yuzu zest, or tiny flakes of hard-boiled egg yolk.

 Llama San $ $ $ $ Japanese ,  Peruvian  in  West Village $$$$ 359 Avenue of the Americas 8.5 /10

Llama San is the latest place from the people behind Llama Inn, a Peruvian restaurant in Williamsburg we’ve been recommending on repeat since it opened several years ago. But unlike Llama Inn, Llama San serves the type of Japanese-influenced Peruvian food known as Nikkei. There’s a plate of raw hamachi with matcha foam and tiny cubes of coconut, for example, as well as some Japanese eggplant with little mounds of fresh cheese and some bisected red grapes - and both of these dishes are bright, complex, and worth seeking out. We’re also fans of the space, which has a lot of blonde wood and ambient lighting, and we feel compelled to mention that we wanted to steal the plates and other ceramic dishware. So book a table, and bring a date or a friend who wants to have a special dinner. And don’t steal the plates.

 Win Son Bakery $ $ $ $ Taiwanese  in  East Williamsburg $$$$ 164 Graham Ave 8.7 /10

The name Win Son Bakery is a little misleading. Because in addition to some excellent doughnuts and other baked goods, this counter-service spot from the Win Son people also serves a few salads and bunch of different sandwiches like a burger with raclette on a milk bun. They also have some crunchy fried chicken covered in a sweet and sour sauce, and it’s one of our favorite things here. However, we could easily just sit in a corner and eat some of Win Son Bakery’s plain scallion pancakes for an hour or two. That’s how much we like the food here. So grab a table in the bright, cafe-like space. It’s open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and it’s right across the street from Win Son in East Williamsburg.

 Bread And Salt $ $ $ $ Pizza ,  Italian  in  Jersey City ,  New Jersey $$$$ 435 Palisade Ave 8.6 /10

If you’re hesitant to travel to Jersey City for a counter-service slice shop, know that we’d make the trip just for the crust. They don’t serve the light, charred crust on its own, though, and most of it comes with perfectly acidic and sweet tomato sauce, and/or mozzarella that’s pulled in-house. The slice variety changes every few minutes, so your choices are entirely dependent on whatever recently came out of the oven. But if you see them, prioritize the sausage and pepper or anchovy and green tomato slices, as well as the rossa and margherita. Since Bread And Salt is BYO, we suggest bringing some red wine, and hanging out for an hour or two so that you can order slice-after-slice without feeling like you’re missing out on whatever’s coming out of the oven.

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Maison Yaki, the second restaurant from the people behind Olmsted (across the street), is a place of miniatures. Instead of entrees, there are skewers. Instead of normal-sized cocktails, there are slightly shrunken ones. Even the wine and beer glasses make you look at your hands to make sure you haven’t suddenly become a giant. Luckily, the prices at this French-Japanese mashup are downsized too - nothing costs more than $9. The setup makes it easy for you to try a lot on the menu, without spending a crazy amount of money. And while you’ll eat things like duck à l’orange and lobster Americaine skewers, the whole experience feels fun and relaxed. If you’re in a restaurant rut, this is a great place to come and mix it up.

 Nicole Franzen Wayla $ $ $ $ Thai  in  Lower East Side $$$$ 100 Forsyth St 8.6 /10

Like most animals on this planet, we enjoy eating outside - and that’s part of the reason why we like Wayla, a new Thai restaurant on the LES that has a backyard filled with potted plants, string lights, and some patio furniture that’s probably nicer than a lot of the stuff you choose to keep indoors. The food here also happens to be excellent, especially the pork sausage and fried branzino. But we’d be keeping secrets if we didn’t tell you to order the noodle-wrapped meatballs and the daily curry too. Bring a few people, so you don’t have to waste time trying to decide between all of these things.

 Helen Lee Golden Diner $ $ $ $ Diner  in  Two Bridges $$$$ 123 Madison St 8.7 /10

It takes a lot for us to tell you to go out of your way for a diner. But we would advise you do so in the case of Golden Diner, a little spot underneath the Manhattan Bridge with big windows, yellow booths, and lace curtains. The short (for a diner, at least) menu here is what sets it apart - there’s a club sandwich stuffed with chicken katsu, an avocado toast topped with turmeric, thai basil, and galangal, and a bibimbap-style bowl of creamy barley covered in enough vegetables, fruits, and flowers to look and taste like a field that you definitely want to frolic through. Make your next lunch-outside-of-the-office plans here, or stop by for a great tuna melt or burger at night for dinner.

 Chris Payne Crown Shy $ $ $ $ American  in  Financial District $$$$ 70 Pine St 9.1 /10

Crown Shy is one of a few new places (like Manhatta) that make us actually excited about getting dinner in FiDi. This new American spot off the lobby of a landmarked luxury apartment building has high ceilings and huge windows, and is perfect for clients or in-laws or anyone you generally want to convince that you have your sh*t together. The food - like hummus that comes with ’nduja and sugar-coated puffed bread, and crispy farro with bone marrow and chunks of oxtail - will also impress just about everyone. But while it’s certainly upscale, Crown Shy doesn’t feel stuffy - the walk-in-only bar area, as well as the open kitchen and surprisingly affordable prices (most dishes are under $20), make it the kind of spot you could go anytime you want to get a little dressed up for a nice night out.

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