Hello there! Remember me? I know, it’s been a while. Far too long. But The Perky Foodie is back and here to stay! Woooo!!!!! I hope you’re hungry! Today’s gem of a restaurant is Jajaja, an unassuming vegan Mexican restaurant on the Lower East Side in NYC! I say unassuming because I literally walked past…
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The Butcher’s Daughter & My (Updated!) NYC Foodie Bucket List
I have exciting news!!! The **~NYC Foodie Bucket List~** has received a MAJOR makeover! CHECK IT OUT! WOOOOOH! On this new and improved list, each restaurant’s website is linked on its name, the name of the restaurant is followed by its address (with its cross streets), what the restaurant is popular for is bulleted underneath…
Riverpark
The best gifts always come in the form of food! An NYC Restaurant Week meal of my choice, a belated Chanukah gift from my mom, was obviously the perfect present for a foodie like me! Restaurant Week is such a wonderful thing. During this time, loads of very fancy NYC restaurants make fine dining a…
Thaimee Box
Purple noodles. Magic, color changing purple noodles. What a crazy world we live in! I was thrilled to finally try these mystical magical noodles at Thaimee Box this past week, and they taste even better than they look! Thaimee Box is a little Thai restaurant in the East Village, with sister restaurants at Ngam around…
Nizza
Hey there foodies! I’m back!!!! Wooooh! Promising this winter break will be filled with LOTS of yumminess! First stop: PASTA. Nizza is a wonderful little Italian restaurant which I found on–you guessed it– Instagram. When we sat down, I was telling Jenna, my foodie companion for the evening, about how I’d seen Nizza on some…
Silvana
I’ve been working right down the street from an absolute gem the whole summer and of course I didn’t find this spot until my second to last week… Silvana is a contemporary Middle Eastern restaurant in West Harlem, and it’s pretty much everything I could ever want and more in a café. Fantastic (and inexpensive)…
Rocking Horse Cafe
My favorite request in the world is, “Hey so can we get dinner in the city one night after work at one of your NYC foodie bucket list places please and thanks,” so thanks for that to my dear friend, Jenna. We chose Rocking Horse Cafe, and let me tell you, we chose wisely. Rocking…
Ippudo Ramen & Spot Dessert Bar
My friend Melissa’s Snapchat story always seems to have a steaming bowl of some variant of Asian soup on it, and I’ve decided that’s the kind of life I’d like to live, so of course I had to try Ippudo Ramen, knownas the best ramen place in the city! To begin, we shared two…
My Summer in Connecticut
Bagels, pizza, diner food, acai bowls… My oh my, how I have missed you! While I may have longed for my favorite Jersey fare while I was away, I definitely did enjoy the foodie finds I came across in Connecticut while I was staying there working on a show last month! Guided by my college…
Eataly
I have seen foodie paradise. It’s real, it’s glorious, and it’s called Eataly. Currently owned by Mario Batali alongside Lidia and Joe Bastianich, (just a handful of Italian idols in the world of cookery), this food hall in the Flatiron District of NYC is (not surprisingly) an absolute dream. Yes, I said food ~hall~ because…
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