Posts Tagged as ‘Central New York’

April 20, 2008

The People at Alto Cinco Are Real Sweethearts

Alto Cinco has always been my one of my favorite places to eat at Syracuse, but I was just blown away by their service this Saturday. My roommate wanted to eat there for lunch, but all I wanted was something cold and sugary (it was 80 degrees out that day). So I went up to [...]

March 24, 2008

New Salad Option at the Schine Salad Bar

If you eat at the Schine salad bar often, you know that your options are limited. Every salad topper is disgusting (corn, chopped eggs, broccoli, drained tuna, banana peppers), the dressings have flakes of tuna and olives floating in them and the only good thing about it is the potato salad and croutons.  But they’ve [...]

February 8, 2008

My Favorite Bagel Fillings

Growing up in a Southern California suburb, we didn’t eat a lot of bagels, and we certainly didn’t have many delis. So when I moved to the East Coast for college, I made a promise to myself to eat at least three bagels a week (I pretty much do…Dunkin’ Donuts bagels are very good, and [...]

January 21, 2008

Congratulations, Turning Stone, for Making the Worst Apple Crisp in the Universe

Apple crisp is hard to screw up, and boy, did Turning Stone certainly do it in. Their apple crisp at Emerald Restaurant was an absolute fabrication. They turned something that’s simple to make into even something more simple and half-assed to make — congealed canned apple pie filling with microwaved crumbly topping (and I could [...]