Plus: roundtable discussions at Má Pêche are back, and more, in today's Leftovers.
Danny Bowien will talk about pandas, maybe.
As Chang visits street vendors, Má Pêche gets literary.
The James Beard Award winning barman pours a set of his greatest hits in midtown.
Now in an easy-to-read grid format!
"It was really cool. Google’s awesome. It’s fun to go into a room and speak with a bunch of 14-year-old millionaires. It makes me feel very wise. And old."
What is a Seiōbo, anyway?
"It's irritating and utterly British," Chang says of Jay Rayner's Má Pêche review.
"I look at my life as having very few meals left ... it's a finite number ... and I don't want to waste any of it on something that's not teaching me something."
Plus: Sietsema on Testaccio and the New Yorker takes on Má Pêche.
Má Pêche failed to thrill, Faustina is an egg, Pulino's is more famous for its bad publicity than its food.
Plus: Watermelon and Fairy Tale eggplant both hit the Greenmarket.
Plus: Jay Cheshes goes for the pizza at the Plaza Food Hall, and Gael Greene feels too old for Má Pêche.
Plus: Alan Richman at Adour Alain Ducasse, and Gael Greene at Annisa.
The international travel mag blesses NYC and S.F. restaurants in a new listicle, but ignores all other American cities.