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| | Café d'Alsace | | | “A good French neighborhood restaurant in every respect in an area terminally starved for good food.” —nymag | | Cuisine: French, German |
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| | | | | | 1695 Second Avenue (at 88th Street) (212)722-5133 cafedalsace.com TYPE: French with a German twist VIBE: Breezy neighborhood bistro OCCASION: Summer is here & outdoor seating's aplenty GO WITH: Friends or family - it's a casual affair DON'T MISS DISH: Baeckeoffe (a meaty Alsatian stew) D... Read More | | | | | | | | | | | | On family trips to EPCOT, as a young lass, I would insist that my parents visit the countries alone and let me and my brother spend our valuable time in Future World. The countries, I thought, were boring: who wants to shop around England and France, when you can ride up the giant globe with Wal... Read More | | | | | | As our week of eating continued, we headed uptown for a dinner with JB's mom. We hardly ever cross paths in the summer, so this was our farewell dinner. With no reservations, we decided to try Cafe D'Alsace which has received some recent raves. Lucky for us, we snagged the last outdoor table on... Read More | | | | | | [Kalina, 4/18/06] 1) So, uh, Adam Platt has this friend. And this friend likes steak. But the friend's wife doesn't, so the friend can never go to places like Smith & Wollensky because his wife won't be happy and we all know what that means. So Platt took his friend to Quality Meats, where hi... Read More | | | | | | Café d’Alsace on the Upper East Side. (Photo: Hiroko Masuike for The New York Times) In this well-fed and cutthroat city, every new week brings as many as a half dozen new restaurants, and I’m not counting franchises, corner take-out places and lounges with glorified canapes. Each of these re... Read More | | | | | | What a food weekend I had. On Friday night I had dinner at Cafe D'Alsace, on 88th and 2nd Avenue. It's an Alsatian brasserie featuring the cooking of Philippe Roussel. The highlights of the meal: a fine split pea soup with bacon, two kinds of housemade sausages, one made of pork, the other or ... Read More | | | | | | Full disclosure, this is my local restaurant haunt. I love it. The food is solid, if unspectacular, but the vibe is great and you can't get much better in the neighborhood than this. Brunch is excellent. Read More | | | | | | Yesterday I met my brother, his wife, and four of their friends at Cafe D'Alsace for lunch or brunch or whatever it is you call a meal eaten at 1:15 on a Sunday afternoon. Needless to say, I suggested the restaurant, which was reasonably convenient to the group's next planned activity, a visit to t... Read More | | | | | | There is no shortage of French restaurants in New York yet – Simon Oren’s mini-empire of Marseille, Nice Matin, and Café d’Alsace come to mind – but it’s not like it used to be. Back in the day, French food was gloriously rich and heavy, the product of hundreds of years of home cooking in deep ... Read More | | | |
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