Stuffed bell peppers. Where do you stand?
— Sam Sifton (@SamSifton) October 15, 2013
Why does Sam Sifton want to TEAR THE INTERNET APART?
“The setting is dropped-ceiling bland, with a few plants and paintings for color. This is in keeping with the neighborhood’s restaurant history: 456 resembles nothing so much as a Chinese restaurant in Chinatown.” — At the corner of Nostalgia and Zen you will find Sam Sifton’s review of 456…
The last sentence in Sam Sifton’s most recent restaurant review is pretty brutal.
“THERE are two remarkable things going on at Ciano, the casual, new-style Italian restaurant that Shea Gallante opened a few months ago on East 22nd Street. The first is Mr. Gallante’s food, which is ambitious, beautiful and flavor packed, a kind of…
We are on record as being fans of New York Times dining critic Sam Sifton-his review of ultra-hip Carroll Gardens abattoir Prime Meats this week was extremely enjoyable-but we’ve got to admit, this Sifton Mad-Libs construction is also pretty great. It is obviously the product of close reading.
“Only a marvelous chicken-and-crab salad ($19) with coconut, cherry tomatoes and a spicy green chili dressing really worked, and it’s not so much Southeast Asian as Southeast Asian-aware. It’d be an excellent lunch option at one of those…
“Then lobster, a slash of red and white claw meat in a lobster bordelaise so deeply flavored as to recall both veal stock and opium smoke, with cabbage to bind them together. And sturgeon, a rectangle of meat the color of ivory, with a sauce of reduced grape…
“For dessert, sticky toffee pudding and a marvelous version of Eton mess, meringue slathered in lemon ricotta cream. There is also eggnog as interpreted by someone interested in the intersection of hallucinogens and…
Times dining critic Sam Sifton has mixed feelings about SD26, Tony May’s downtown 21st century version of the venerable San Domenico. On the one hand, the candele with cauliflower, saffron, pine nuts and anchovy oil evokes “the very essence of great…
