Sorry to bring this up on 4/20 but I cannot believe my neighborhood only has two local drugstores but there are FOUR cannabis dispensaries in a five block radius.

regular-stuff oreos have just the right amount of stuff!

i almost missed my train today because i was on my couch finishing up a customer satisfaction survey and i really got into it lol

New York's Best Steaks Under $50! Eyval, Cafe Chelsea, Estela, Chubby Tan, Lori Jayne, Soledad, and more new steak reviews!

Here's my annual Budget Steak Guide, though I had to raise the cap by $5 to $50 because New York prices are crazy! Stoked to include Eyval, Chubby Tan, and others in this one! www.thelotimes.com/p/best-steak...

My first zero-star review is up over at the NYT. Made three visits to Golden Steer and while you can theoretically have a good time if you stick with salads and oyster shooters, the steaks are massively, profoundly disappointing messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/dynamic/rend...

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Steak Is Only Getting Pricier in 2026 Plus: A visit to Confidant, and price hikes at Cote, The Eighty-Six, Wild Cherry, Atla, Skirt Steak, and elsewhere

I can't remember the last time I saw the price of steak going up at so many New York restaurants. And the Iran war could push things up even further.... www.thelotimes.com/p/steak-beef...

el gauchito in elmhurst gives everyone free calendar magnets and branded toothpicks lol i appreciate this! it's all very pre-iphone www.thelotimes.com/p/gui-best-s...

Gui's Serious Steak Lunch Is a Serious Deal! Plus: Gui's grilled short ribs and pastrami sandwich, dry-aged krapow at Soothr, and more...

i wrote about short ribs grilled over coals. and refrigerator magnets :) www.thelotimes.com/p/gui-best-s...

indeed you do they make their own morcilla! it's quite good imo stickier than elsewhere!

Here's my NYT review of El Gauchito in Elmhurst, an Argentinian steakhouse that's been around since the late 1970s! It's still packed: quoted wait time was 45 mins a few Saturdays ago and people were spilling out the door! messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/dynamic/rend...

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i'm quite excited about my short restaurant review running in the nyt today!!! a longtime elmhurst staple i first visited in 2021! sign up here to get it in the "where to eat" newsletter www.nytimes.com/newsletters/...

chuck norris doesn't believe in the periodic table because he only recognizes the element of surprise ;-P

I wrote about the new $1,200 menu at Masa lol www.thelotimes.com/p/masa-most-...

I actually fully believe that New York traffic is worse than LA traffic, because while LA traffic is godawful, it’s predictable. New York traffic pops up out of nowhere, like mushrooms. If you have to drive or be driven in NYC, you will never be able to accurately figure out how long it will take.

a1 was maybe my fave condiment as a kid? so tangy and zippy in a household where "acidic" or "tart" were not regular flavor profiles!

A big takeaway this year has to be that Sinners and One Battle After Another were big, artist driven, swings bankrolled by WB whose future is ultimately unclear. I like living in a world where people like PTA and Ryan Coogler get to make the films they want to make with those resources.

zendaya brought awards season timothée chalamet energy to that rolex commercial

zendaya is an amazing actor obvz but that rolex hagiography commercial was A LOT lol

go do yourself a favor and watch delroy as a struggling jazz musician and father in spike lee's heartbreaking "crooklyn." and you know what go watch him in — i kid you not — "the core," a wonderfully pulpy sci-fi b-flick that everyone sleeps on lol

could go either way for a lot of them but my chief ballot is for delroy lindo every day of the week for most of his earlier films but especially for "sinners"

This is a good lesson for journalists: Use plain language to state true things clearly.

Anna Hezel launches "Party Tricks," with Jaya Saxena Celebrate local author and food journalist Anna Hezel's newest cookbook with a fun and food-filled party

This is tonight!! www.eventbrite.com/e/anna-hezel...

sometimes the most vital role SNL plays in our world is just letting us watch other people laugh really hard

We’ve Got Stars for Le Chêne, Chalong and More

One star for Chalong, one of the city's top Southern Thai spots. And two stars for Kiko, an expensive tavern that draws from the traditions of Japanese izakayas and Korean pubs. My latest set of NYT reviews with Mahira Rivers! www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/d...

For most of my childhood my mom was a researcher at Entertainment Weekly and worked in their massive library of other magazines reporters were constantly referencing. We lose so much when reporters, or anyone else, can't access that history.

New York's Top Chicken Sandwiches, Part One New reviews: Double Chicken Please, Mommy Pai's, Pecking House, Three Roosters, and elsewhere! Plus: Details on tonight's hot chicken specials at The Fly!

Chicken sandwiches are booming (again)! So I wrote about them (again) and reviewed some of my favorites! www.thelotimes.com/p/best-fried...

i need to eat more cherry varenyki with smetana!!!

honestly how many more times are they gonna make ashley padilla play the mom in a sketch lol (and when is lorne finally gonna promote padilla???)