Tag: andrew zimmern
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Kettle Black Staten Island Lives Up to Its Brooklyn Predecessor
Kettle black has the best wings on Staten Island and arguably NYC.
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Angry Orchard Serves Cider to Loud Bachelorettes and People Named Sal
Part 1 – A Breathtaking State Park View Part 2 – Amazing Wine and Cigars My mid-fall trip to upstate New York included a lot of great discoveries such as the winery, its cigars and just the beauty of Minnewaska state park. However, our main goal in traveling to that particular area was to test…
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McDonald’s Spicy Chicken vs Popeyes, Chick-fil-A: Who Has the Best Sandwich?
It seems that in 2019 some of the major fast food chains finally took notice of the wild success and hype around Chick-fil-A and its chicken sandwiches and decided to come up with a product that could compete. Here we are at the beginning of 2021 and we’ve seen Popeyes expand its business greatly by…
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A New York Winery With Top Notch Cigars and Smoky Wine
Read Part 1 here. After being intoxicated with the wonders of nature we decided to grab some delicious barbecue to refill our tanks from walking for over 2 hours. The weather was relatively warm for the fall so outdoor seating was still a viable option when we pulled up to a local barbecue spot called…
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I Discovered a Gorgeous State Park Near Me and the UFO Capital in New York
Take a break. Let’s go upstate. Those wonderful lyrics from the broadway show turned Disney + movie Hamilton inspired my wife and I to take a weekend trip to a few different locations outside of the city during Columbus day weekend. I have long been an advocate for the beauty and peacefulness of upstate New…
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NYC’s Bravo Pizza Hits Staten Island With a See-through Oven and Sports Bar
Bravo Pizza hits Staten Island with a see-through oven.
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Hiram’s Hot Dogs and Tracing the Steps of Anthony Bourdain on Valentine’s Day
Anthony Bourdain’s Season 1 NJ Episode During the very first season of his classic series No Reservations we see Anthony Bourdain visit Hiram’s Hot Dogs in The Soprano’s themed New Jersey episode. Bourdain explains being born and raised in New Jersey and frequenting this hole-in-the-wall fast food eatery with his mother as a child in…
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Gennaro’s Was a Classic NYC Pizza Joint With Reasonably Priced Italian Dishes
If you grew up in and around the New Dorp neighborhood of Staten Island, Gennaro’s pizzeria was most likely a staple in your life. Formerly Pizza Town, a place that literally looked like a carnival attraction, it was transformed into Gennaro’s with a more traditionally designed building in the 1980s. The new name and edifice…
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Acropolis of Greece, the Real-Life Thanos and an Amazing Athens Dentist
Read about how I met the real-life Thanos.
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Santorini to Athens: Amazing Eats and First Taste of Ancient Greece
Read about some of the best restaurants in Santorini!
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