Restaurant delivery specialist Seamless.com recently announced the results of their 2012 Craved Awards contest. Five Upper West Side restaurants were selected as winners and you can get 20% off your orders placed with them between now and Wednesday, 11/21.

Serious Eats occasionally posts neighborhood dining guides based on the favorite spots of well-known/respected food and restaurant biz types from around NYC. In June they featured chef Michael White, a James Beard Award recipient, top restaurateur, and Upper West Sider. They recently ran a similar post with Many Oser — owner of popular Hell’s Kitchen [...]

Posted back in February that tickets for the the 5th Annual “New Taste Of The Upper West Side” food festival were on sale. I have literally no idea where the past three months have gone, but we’re now just a day away from what’s probably the Upper West Side’s “signature” event. If you haven’t bought [...]

It’s getting to be that time of year again — tickets for the 5th annual New Taste Of The Upper West Side are officially on sale today. If you’re not familiar with it, New Taste is a fantastic neighborhood food festival that brings together a veritable “Who’s Who” of Upper West Side chefs and restaurateurs [...]

Good read over at DNAinfo, where they published a “Top 10 Family Friendly Restaurants on the Upper West Side” list yesterday.

A round-up of some of the most popular posts from the past week: Photo Of The Week: CUTENESS OVERLOAD! You can now sell your UWS parking spot 45th Annual Mostly Mozart Festival opens, runs through 8/27 Central Park officials want people to stop eating… the park Weekly UWS crab boils at Ditch Plains & Mermaid [...]

Starting tomorrow, Chef Marc Murphys’ Ditch Plains will be hosting a weekly “Back Room Crab Boil” every Thursday night. Per the restaurant’s website: Come to our back room and enjoy buckets of Atlantic Blue Crab, jalapeno hushpuppies, potato wedges, corn on the cob and our famous ditch’wiches. Of course we’ll also offer a few drink [...]

As if I wasn’t already hungry enough, the New York Post has a nice write-up on the Luke’s Lobster guys (Luke Holden and Ben Conniff). Their Upper West Side location is at 426 Amsterdam, between 80th & 81st.  It’s only a few blocks away from me and I can vouch that it’s legit. At some [...]

It’s good to be Chef… Marc Murphy, the chef/owner of Upper West Side restaurants Landmarc and Ditch Plains, just closed on a $16.5 million dollar apartment at the famed Beresford (211 Central Park West). He’s now neighbors with Jerry Seinfeld. The NY Post has a brief story (with an incorrect headline about the apartment being [...]

Eater reports that Ditch Plains, Marc Murphy’s newest restaurant on 82nd and Columbus, has soft opened.  The oyster bar/fish shack that surfer Murphy created to pay homage to Montauk is reportedly serving a preview menu, offering a 15% discount until its official opening to the public, taking place on March 1st.

The New York Post reports that Ditch Plains, the oyster bar/fish shack that pays homage to Montauk and is headed up by sea-lover (and chef at Landmarc) Marc Murphy, is getting close to opening its Upper West Side location.  The restaurant, with a popular West Village location, is slated to open its 5,000 square foot [...]

It looks like the ‘hood is a little closer to getting another restaurant with a famous chef at the helm.  Ditch Plains, an oyster bar/fish shack that pays homage to Montauk and is headed up by sea-lover (and chef at Landmarc) Marc Murphy, is close to opening its Upper West Side location.  The restaurant will [...]