Updated: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 at 3:34pm
The casual date is the albino tiger of the dating world — much talked about, highly sought after and questionably accessible. Yet it seems New Haven, and Yalies, have found their sleek white cat: Prime 16, New Haven’s new beer bar-cum-trendy American cuisine restaurant promises a break from the world of coffee dates. A chronic problem arises when trying to identify a...
As I made the short trek to JoJo’s Coffee & Tea, a recently opened coffee shop on the corner of Park and Chapel streets, I wondered: Does the Yale campus really have room for another coffee shop? With Koffee Too (fine … The Publick Cup), Starbucks and the Thain Family Cafe either on or just a few steps from campus, is anyone really going to go the extra block for a...
There are a couple of questions in the world for which there is only one right — and by right I mean socially, morally and logically acceptable — answer. What’s two plus two? Four. Did you file your taxes? Yes. What’s north of the North Pole? Shut up. Do you like cookies? Yes. That last question is the vital one. Have you ever met a (sane) person who, at the...
I’m not a very manly man. I don’t pump iron, I don’t leave the seat up and I don’t know who is in the playoffs, ever. In the kitchen, though, things are a bit different. When I’ve got my chef’s knife in my right hand and my honing steel in my left, I feel like Schwarzenegger from the original “Terminator,” after his skin has been blasted away and all that...
Two-time Academy Award-winner Denzel Washington sits down with scene before his Master’s Tea yesterday in Silliman College. Q: Finals are coming up in about a week. Do you remember your last exams at Fordham [University]? A: My last two years at Fordham, I had already transferred within the university [to the theater program], and I had started working in the...
The Berkeley ’09er across from me sullenly pokes at her charred chicken, scooting it beneath piles of rice, cottage cheese and half-macerated beets like a smoker indifferently toeing a smoldering butt beneath a layer of beach sand. It is not unusual for interactions with dining-hall fare to take on this tinge of food-related depression or, worse, apathy. Were we to...
Ever since my favorite Cup Noodles was removed from the intersection of Broadway and 45th, all the advertisements in Times Square do nothing for me except justify wearing sunglasses at night. I have no interest in buying men’s underwear or the latest toys, so I usually ignore the gigantic eyesores and concentrate on seething at the tourists that stop and gawk every five...
Can you feel that vague sense of euphoria welling up in the pit of your stomach, reaching up to your eyeballs? Do you know why its there, or what it’s trying to tell you? I believe it’s saying: spring is here, be prosperous, multiply! To that end, I know of no better aphrodisiac on a sunny afternoon like today than a strong double espresso straight out of the hot...
A war between independent and corporate coffeehouses has been raging on Chapel Street ever since international java conglomerate Starbucks first set up shop at the corner of High and Elm Streets in 2001, challenging the locally-owned, three-decade-old Atticus Bookstore Cafe just down the block. When Cafe Bottega marked its own territory across from the touristy New Haven...
In a city known for the variety of its cuisine, it is surprising how the middle range of not-pizza-but-not-Union-League options can seem repetitive. Serving standard dishes whose flavors are only slightly easier to differentiate than their names, many of the mid-range restaurants surrounding Yale’s campus satisfy without ever really exciting us. Caffé Adulis offers...
