Free and cheap events in the neighborhood on Thursday, September 27th, 2012…

Boulud Sud, Chef Daniel Boulud’s latest restaurant, has been racking up near universal praise since it opened on the UWS at 20 West 64th last May. Now here’s some more: Sam Sifton of the New York Times recently listed it as #2 on his list 2011′s top ten new restaurants.

A round-up of some of the most popular posts from the past week: Actor Paul Sorvino Hit By Car At Amsterdam & 79th Mystery Skywriting Over The UWS A Mystery No More (But Still Stupid) Two Hurt In Crash At Amsterdam & 79th (Dangerous Corner This Week) Neighborhood Meeting On Proposed West End Avenue Historic [...]

As you may have heard, Sam Sifton is leaving his job as the New York Times’ restaurant critic to take over as the paper’s National Editor. His final review was published yesterday, and he signed off with a bang. Mr. Sifton awarded four stars to Upper West Side food mecca Per Se (located in the [...]

Upper West Side restaurant Fishtag (229 W. 79th, between Broadway & Amsterdam) seems to be a very polarizing place. NYT’s Sam Sifton gave it a zero-star review in March, prompting a defensive rebuttal from the publisher of Saveur. EatBigApple.com had nice things to say about it in June and Yelpers are pretty positive on the [...]

A round-up of some of the most popular posts from the past week: Upper West Side Blue Donkey Bar Shutters, Blames Vocal Angry Neighbor Alec Baldwin Ditching Upper West Side For SoHo & Yoga Instructor Girlfriend Second Triathlete Dies After (Mostly) Upper West Side Race Police Make Arrest In Connection To “Serial Groper” Case Upper [...]

Posted a massive Boulud Sud “review extravaganza” last week, but Sam Sifton of the New York Times had yet to file his report. He finally did so the other day, and like others before him, he has pretty much nothing but praise for Chef Boulud’s latest spot, lavishing it with two stars. “To the list [...]

Last night featured a trove of reviews on Boulud Sud, chef Daniel Boulud’s latest addition to the Upper West Side. Today the focus is on The Leopard at des Artistes, another player in the UWS culinary scene that opened at about the same time as Boulud Sud. Previous reviews of The Leopard have included The [...]

UPDATE 8/12: NYT’s Sam Sifton has filed his review I’m running around a bit tonight, so I’ll leave you to cap off your day with a trove of reviews of Daniel Boulud’s latest Upper West restaurant, the recently opened Boulud Sud (20 West 64th). NOTE: I am oddly obsessed with the background music they use [...]

Eater and GrubStreet are both reporting a change in the kitchen at FishTag (222 West 79th) — chef Ryan Skeen is longer working there. The kitchen will now be overseen by chef/owner Michael Psilakis and newly promoted sous chef Stan Matusevich. FishTag received a harsh zero-star from NYT critic Sam Sifton in March, prompting a [...]

Last month MyUpperWest linked to New York Times restaurant critic Sam Sifton’s review of Graffit (141 West 69th), the Spanish-modernist restaurant that opened in mid-December. That post generated quite a bit of interest, so now I’m passing along a brief review by New York Magazine’s Adam Platt that just came out. While Platt seems to [...]

Interesting discussion going on at the The Times’ Diner’s Journal blog. Last week Sam Sifton reviewed Upper West Side newcomer Graffit. In a follow-up post on Diner’s Journal, he asked readers to list their top three Upper West Side restaurants (he defined UWS at 60th to 96th, west of Central Park). At the time of [...]