Taste of Persia is a small café tucked away inside a pizzeria in the Flatiron District. Owner Saeed Pourkay used to own the printing shop across the street for 15 years, but when a few bad…
In 1992, 14-year-old Fernando Ponce Sosa immigrated from Mexico to New York City in search of opportunity. Hailing from a family of bakers, he took an entry level job at Kam Hing Bakery, a…
Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto recently tweeted this amazing holiday cake made entirely of rice, fish and other sushi edibles. I would take this over my Aunt's Christmas fruit cake any time!…
HARBS is a popular Japanese cake shop, bakery and tea house chain in Japan. You may be thinking "a cake is a cake", but the Japanese style-cakes are known for being lighter and fluffier than…
Maid Café's are a type of Japanese cosplay restaurant where the waitresses dress up in maid costumes, call patrons "Master", and are encouraged to be flirty, bubbly and laugh a lot. While…
The Cake Pusher is a somewhat "bakery speakeasy" in that each of its locations are tucked away in office buildings without signs or other forms of advertising to attract walk-in customers.…
At first glance, this vintage photograph from the early 1940s seems like any other standard nightclub filled with drinkers, smokers, and a singer. But what this photograph is showing is the…
Whatever the weather, cold or warm, rainy or windy, the cats that camp out in Inwood Hill Park must eat and be cared for. Teresa Youngblood is an Inwood resident who has made it a priority…
Whatever the weather, cold or warm, rainy or windy, the cats that camp out in Inwood Hill Park must eat and be cared for. Teresa Youngblood is an Inwood resident who has made it a priority…
DESPITE standing just 22-storeys tall on an island full of massive skyscrapers, New York's Flatiron Building managed to endure as a cake-slice shaped icon of this city since 1902. That…
