Local market Appletree has become quite the fancy establishment as of late! There’s a new, overpriced salad bar, and they’ve stopped renting VHS tapes. Plus, here’s this latest element of the Great Appletree Makeover: the store has a brand new facade, which is a rather becoming shade of royal red.  

Bwog’s food editor Jon Hill travels this week to Brooklyn to find a taste of Australia. Almost everyone these days seems to have a beef with beef. Cardiologists blame it for clogging arteries, animal rights advocates don’t like the way it’s processed, and environmentalists resent its carbon footprint. Beef has become a bad guy in […]

Rejoice! Mediocre falafel purveyor Amir’s has opened back up after getting beat down last week by the Department of Health. Bwog ventured into the newly-scrubbed feeling establishment to query the proprietor as to whether his food was, in fact, safe to eat. He assured us it was, and that the issue had been “just a […]

There is the most mouth-watering fundraiser out on College Walk right now, thrown by the (mostly) women of the Columbia Greenhouse Nursery School. Cupcakes, cookies, muffins–it’s like the platonic ideal of a bake sale! There’s also a sign for “Apple Day,” which apparently happened over the weekend, but which we think should happen every day […]

Free shot glasses for CC Seniors in the Lerner Piano Lounge! Right now till around 9:30. 

Last night, Culture Editor Tony Gong attended Dimensions’ South Asian food/dance/music showcase benefit concert: The Guria Benefit. Despite language barriers and unfamiliar food, Tony rocked out, and even developed a newfound appreciation for vegetarian food. First of all, the decorations at this thing were off the hook. Our hackneyed and usually depressing Roone Arledge, with […]

Madonna Constantine sues TC, drama proves to be as eternal as Columbus’ legacy…oh wait… Farewell, evil Columbus Day! Hello, Indigenous Peoples Day! New Yorkers pay a lot of money for food; seem “more than willing to enjoy a bit of gastronomic luxury.” The economy, Columbia’s endowment are “mildly disheartening”: Spec-er has “vague impression” that  “theoretically […]

Clear sunny days like today make it easy to appreciate fall, a cruel and unpredictable season. Unfortunately days this lovely are few and far between and many of us end up, somewhat unfairly, associating the season with the end of summer blues, midterms, and other decidedly unpleasant things.  But Bwog is here to make sure […]

For our next installment in a series on the best of what Greater Morningside has to offer: bagels (with apologies to those celebrating Yom Kippur). In order to maintain at least the pretence of fairness, in choosing bagel places to review, I stuck with those that either explicitly define themselves as bagelries (meaning they probably […]

Earlier this weekend, Culture Editor Tony Gong attended Liga Filipina’s inaugural “Taste of the Philippines.” Between bites of crispy lumpiang and creamy flan, Tony found a few golden moments of serenity brought on by an atmosphere that could only have been: the Philippines, a.k.a., Lerner Party Space. Never one to pass up an inexpensive meal […]

   Tacos de chapulines Bwog’s food editor Jon Hill looks south for a south-of-the-border culinary adventure. I accidentally swallowed a fly when I was in the fifth grade. I was riding a bicycle at the time, and other than that intensely unpleasant experience, I do not eat insects. Unlike some who choose not to eat […]

Welcome back to the Best of series in which Bwog analyzes the best in a category of chosen food product!  There are few things that are as much fun and as thirst-quenching as a margarita.  And after a weekend of being nice to your parents or studying for midterms, there are few things as much […]

In celebration of the beginning of High Holidays, Bwog offers a roundup of the city’s finest nosh purveyors.  Spice up your Rosh Hashanah spread with some alternatives to Zabars. Russ and Daughters If Westside’s lox doesn’t do it for you, then head to the Lower East Side for delicious smoked salmon in addition to a […]

Welcome back to the Best of series in which Bwog analyzes the best in a category of chosen food product! This week, we take a critical eye toward perhaps the only apolitical Middle East controversy on campus.  Join us as we debate the virtues and vices of three of Morningside’s falafel-purveyors: Amir’s, the Cart on […]

Bwog food editor Jon Hill heads to Galaxy Global Eatery to overcome culinary phobias and beyond… Unless you’re a regular sushi eater or a fan of “Eastenders,” eel is most likely not a familiar foodstuff. The reasons for eel’s scarcity here in the States are not hard to ferret out if you’ve ever seen a […]