UN EATS
Reviews of restaurants and cafes near the United Nations. Excellent choices for lunch and dinner in Midtown East in New York City.
- Irwin Arieff
- • April 16, 2012
Sure, it was a very mild winter. That does not mean you are still not eager to check out the first greens of spring. A visit to the greenmarket at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza or the bigger one at Union…
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- Irwin Arieff
- • March 28, 2012
Ever since a long-ago family vacation to Vienna, I’ve wondered about schnitzel. Why take something as expensive and bland as a scant slab of veal and pound it even thinner, drown it in breadcrumbs and fry it? At Schnitzel…
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- Irwin Arieff
- • March 9, 2012
Cipriani is an international restaurant and catering firm whose holdings range from Harry’s Bar in Venice to Yotto, a Japanese eatery in Abu Dhabi. The business may be best known in the UN neighborhood for its 42nd Street party…
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- Irwin Arieff
- • February 16, 2012
The UN community, with its incomparable mix of people from around the globe, has a soft spot for falafel as well as for world peace. In the triangle stretching between the main UN gate on First Avenue and East…
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- Irwin Arieff
- • February 2, 2012
Nothing gets in the way of a satisfying South Asian restaurant meal like hidden fat and unfamiliar names. What was that dish you ordered the last time, the one that took the skin right off your lips? A biriyani…
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- Irwin Arieff
- • January 21, 2012
The same armed revolution that brought Fidel Castro to power in 1959 drove other Cubans to flee to America, where they opened many excellent restaurants that have been teaching us ever since about the garlicky charms of their homeland’s…
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- Irwin Arieff
- • December 27, 2011
Sure, Portugal may be best known these days for the complaint that its slacker economy is weighing down the euro. But when it comes to the kitchen, Lisbon has always punched above its weight. And that is reason enough…
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- Irwin Arieff
- • December 17, 2011
When it comes to grabbing lunch in the UN neighborhood, you can’t say there’s nothing to eat. There are lots of choices. It’s just that few of them are inspirational, particularly when you need to run out and grab…
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- Irwin Arieff
- • December 4, 2011
With cold weather setting in, what better lunch than a soothing bowl of soba (that’s buckwheat noodles to you Anglophones) swimming in hot broth? Now chase that with a good-size bowl of rice topped with stir-fried chunks of beef…
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- Irwin Arieff
- • November 12, 2011
One of the greatest unsung pleasures of working at UN headquarters is the marvelous greenmarket that springs up on 47th Street east of Second Avenue every Wednesday year round. Over the years the market, known officially as the Dag…
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- Irwin Arieff
- • October 29, 2011
You only need to wander a few blocks from the UN campus for a tasty portrayal of what it might have been like to eat in Shanghai in the 1930s. The recently opened Cafe China tries to be as…
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- Irwin Arieff
- • October 14, 2011
Slow-simmered leeks, a celery root salad, sauteed spinach, hummus, stuffed grape leaves, Cacik yogurt and puffy Turkish bread. …
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