Hey there! I’m Mike, and I’ve been eating in NYC for 30+ years and cooking in my apartment for 5+ years. After enough requests for recipes, kitchen tips, and my famous-among-friends Google Maps list, I’ve decided to warehouse it all here.

Subscribing is 100% free!

Here’s what you’ll get every Friday, delivered right to your inbox:

🗽 What I’m Ordering: a curated recommendation of somewhere I dined recently.
🔪 What I’m Cooking: a curated recommendation of something I cooked recently.
✔️ Tip of the Week: a quick kitchen or NYC food rec.

Plus all of the following, periodically:

🧑🏼‍🍳 Full recipes I love, with photos and tricks for nailing them.
🍴 Longer reviews of my go-to dishes at NYC restaurants.
📍 My personal NYC restaurant map, famous among my friends.
🛒 Grocery lists, meal prep plans, bonus tips, and subscriber-only recs.