| |  | Cafe Katja | | | “Filling, upscale Austrian bar food with rare imported beers.” —nymag | | Cuisine: Austrian |
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| | | | | | Address: 79 Orchard St, New York Phone: 212-219-9545 It is not easy to discover a restaurant like Café Katja in the Lower East Side unless it was from word of mouth since the restaurant is tiny and quite hidden. Our loyal blog readers and friends, Ravi and Laura, had recommended this restau... Read More | | | | | | Oktoberfest has been over for quite sometime now, but that's never stopped us from enjoying good German beer and sausages. Which is exactly how we wound up at Austrian newcomer Cafe Katja last night. There's also something to be said for such hearty meat-laden fare as the mercury drops. And judgin... Read More | | | | | | You've probably already heard good things about this newish, tinyish, cheapish spot... but you might as well get used to it. For a certain mood, and a certain type of food—cured meats, various wursts, all veggies pickled—Cafe Katja dead-on hits the spot. A couple of nights ago I had a hankering for... Read More | | | | | | Can a restaurant's decor impede your restaurant experience so much that you have trouble enjoying the food? Granted, I don't get up to the Upper West Side to eat very often so perhaps Dovetail's dining room is just something I'm not used to. Browns and beiges dominate the color scheme, and the drab ... Read More | | | | | | Athens Tavern opens today; grab a glass of Austrian wine or German beer with a plate of wurst at cafe Katja; the chef Gavin Kaysen will come East in December and more. Read More | | | | | | The Strong Buzz for October 15th: New (Devi, Back Forty, Zampa, Cafe Katja and more), Events, My Dinner at Centro Vinoteca Read More | | | | | | It's hard to convey non-disappointment as the tonic note of a restaurant review, but Frank Bruni pulls it off in a strong, two-star endorsement of the Harrison. The only fault is Jimmy Bradley's retro soundtrack which is “neither classic, nor cool. Just odd.” But we liked that! [NYT] Peter Meehan... Read More | | | | | | 1) Back Forty: Though it's de rigeur for chefs these days to source their ingredients locally, Peter Hoffman's efforts pre-date the trend. The chef/owner of Savoy unveiled his new restaurant Back Forty yesterday, where he and chef de cuisine Shanna Pacifico are serving a "tavern menu" fill... Read More | | | |
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