by Dina R. D'Alessandro, RDN | Mar 6, 2013
A couple of weeks ago, the bf and I got together with some super fly1 friends (SFF) for dinner at Vynl in Hell’s Kitchen. It’s such a cool and kitschy place and, after having only ever been there once before eons ago, I went back not 6 months before my...
by Dina R. D'Alessandro, RDN | Nov 8, 2009
THIS EVENING: A dinner in three parts. INT: Suba, on the Lower East Side, recently renovated from a late-night club into a painfully chic, contemporary, Spanish restaurant. A couple is seated at one of many tables located on a platform that, they kid you not, appears...
by Dina R. D'Alessandro, RDN | Aug 5, 2009
I went out tonight for my nightly walk around the neighborhood. When I walk, I walk quickly and I don’t like to stop or slow down, so I set my steps at a pace where I can maneuver right, then left around other pedestrians and I zigzag around blocks so I never...
by Dina R. D'Alessandro, RDN | Jan 12, 2009
It’s Restaurant Week this week (last week, too, actually), so I enjoyed a fantastic dinner—probably one of the best I’ve eaten in months—this evening with L at Marcus Samuelsson’s Asian-fusion restaurant Riingo. While L chose items off the main...
by Dina R. D'Alessandro, RDN | Oct 15, 2008
L offered to make a risotto dinner for E and I (well, ok, we begged her to) at her place on the Upper East Side this evening. Risotto is a traditional Italian dish usually made with Arborio rice and is one of the most common ways of cooking rice in Italy. L added...
