Dec
16

Salt Creek Grille, Princeton, NJ

Salt Creek Grille is an upscale chain with 5 locations, 3 in California and 2 in NJ. The Princeton location opened about a year ago. The food is essentially American Grille fare along with a really good wine list. If you’ve read my earlier posts you will know that I like this place. In an [...]

Dec
10

Churrascaria Plataforma, New York

I first discovered Plataforma back in 1999. They had already been around for 3 years by then. I was watching some restaurant review show on The Food Network and they had a piece on Plataforma. I was on the Atkins diet at the time and this seemed like the perfect place to go to. It was fortunate [...]

Dec
10

Big Fish, Princeton, NJ

I’ve been to Big Fish 3 times over the past year. The first time was on my 40th birthday last year when my team took me there for lunch. I’ve been back for lunch one more time since and recently had dinner there with a new colleague, Kedar.
Big Fish is at Market Fair mall on [...]

Dec
09

Craftbar, New York

I was planning to meet my consultant friends Radhika, Melissa and Stephanie at the Tabla Bread Bar for drinks and snacks. I love that place, but you can read more about that on an earlier post (Indian Food Day in NYC). I got there and was informed that the Bread Bar was closed for a private party. [...]

Dec
05

Texas Smoked Salmon Tartare

If you read my Pinot Noir wine tasting post, you’ll know that I had made the smoked salmon tartare which turned out really well and was quite popular with everyone (at least I think so becaus ethere wasn’t much left). The recipe is from the November issue of Food and Wine.
This works really well as an [...]