NY Times food section

Here is what excited me most about today's food section:



1. ROBOTS: The front page article, entitled "Just Like Mombot Used to Make" is about cool robots serving the writer a granola bar. The Snackbot delivers food to real people in an effort to improve homo-robo relations. Amazing. (Little known fact- I love robots) There was also a restaurant in Japan that served ramen made by robots. When the restaurant gets slow the robots engage in friendly knife play with each other. Basically, certain people all over the world are trying to invent robots to, ahem, cater to our every food need. A little wild, yes, but a little exciting. Does anyone feel weird about this? Does anyone feel a little excited by it?

2. No. 7 is expanding: This restaurant is at the top of my to-go-to list. I've walked by several times and it always looks so warm and inviting. So it is terrific news that it is expanding to making subs at the Ace Hotel which would surely go well with the Stumptown coffee they are serving.

3. A new wine bar is opening on Cortelyou Road: Mimi's Hummus is expanding their enterprise with The Castello Plan just a few steps away. Ditmas Park is an interesting and quickly expanding culinary destination and this is sure to be a stand out wine bar. With a few great restaurants already open, a few great bars are needed. Right now Sycamore might be starting to feel some competition.

4. The Sifton review made me ravenous: The Times doesn't leave the island that often to venture to Brooklyn, and almost never makes it as far as Bay Ridge. So it was a delight to read a wonderful review (although only one star) of Tanoreen in Bay Ridge. It is a newly expanded restaurant that seems to be working out some kinks, but the food itself was terrifically reviewed. The hummus sounded perfect and although Sifton was surprised with the use of basil, it only added to my intrigue. Wonderful review and I can't wait to try it out.