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From the Driver’s Seat: Fare Beater, Flat Tire, Cool Passenger, Obscene Cookie
There are foods that soothe from the moment they make it into your mouth, and chocolate chip cookies are among them. Especially when they come from Petrossian Café, which happens to be two blocks from the Wellington Hotel taxi stand on 7th Ave... Kebob and Sour Cherries at Ravagh Persian Grill
Ravagh Persian Grill in Murray Hill – one of two Persian restaurants that Eli Parviz recommended after we got lost during our quest for his favorite Colombian food – is more elegant than most of the places where I wind up on the taxi adventures. When I walked into the dining room the day...Read more »
Adventure in Brief: Return to Haandi
When I asked Kadri Sayed what his favorite thing about New York was, he slapped the steering wheel and unleashed his words with enthusiasm: “This is a multicultural city. Everyone says I’m American. It’s beautiful. We love New York. You have different people from different backgrounds, and we can live together.” “If you live...Read more »
Cool Cabbie, Top Ramen
A film editor by day who drives his father’s taxi two nights a week, Eric Rodriguez keeps his distance from cyberspace and the world of perpetual communication (He’s not on Facebook or Twitter. He only got a cell phone two years ago because his girlfriend insisted). Lucky for my co-adventurer and me, the Astoria...Read more »
Dinner as Deafening
If you read my last post about Nuyorican Super Cabbie Iris Javed, you know she’s led a life of extremes. You also know that no ordinary restaurant would satisfy the cravings of this wonder woman behind the wheel. Enter Sofrito – a Midtown East hot spot that’s part salsa club, part meat market and...Read more »
Adventure in Brief: Mr. Chaudary’s Greasy Spoon
Cabbie name: Ilyas Chaudary Where he comes from: Gujrat, Pakistan Currently resides: Brooklyn Years in New York: 22 Years driving a taxi: 10 Pre-yellow taxi vocations: Gypsy cab driver, cook at a Greek restaurant What he misses about Pakistan: Everything. In 2 years, he’ll retire from cab driving, go back to Gujrat, and plant...Read more »
Two Strikes and a Haitian Feast
Today’s was a hard-fought food quest. After two failed attempts to persuade cabbies to guide us to their favorite spots to eat – taxi driver #1 flat-out refused to reveal his preferred restaurant in Queens, while hack #2 tried to take us to Carmine’s – we climbed into Leslie Destine’s cab. After 40 years...Read more »
Reader Fare: Hot Fusion at Chinese Mirch
Ever since Taxi Gourmet reader Gluttonous Prime left this haunting comment: “…As for Indian-Chinese in Manhattan, there’s Chinese Mirch right across the street from Curry in a Hurry. It’s always packed, and the spicy crab mu shu is worth the wait,” I haven’t been able to stop thinking about that mu shu. Yesterday, I...Read more »
Curry in a Hurry
To a seasoned New Yorker, the fact that I ended up at ‘Curry Hill’ on my first Big Apple taxi adventure is about as surprising as finishing a food quest at a steak house in Buenos Aires. Still, I was thrilled when a Bangladeshi cabbie named Mizanur dropped me off at Curry in a...Read more »
