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The Lunch Belle
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Created: October 26, 2010
About Me
While The Lunch Belle's "9 to 5" is spent on Wall Street, off the clock, she can be found doing what she does best: eating & critiquing. Since July 2007, The Lunch Belle has written restaurant reviews for the NY Post and Page Six Magazine - regularly contributes to national food/health websites - and has interviewed more celebrity chefs/television stars than she knows what to do with.
Aside from NYCentric restaurant reviews and recipes, The Lunch Belle also tailors food-focused itineraries - advises on small/large scale event planning - assists with restaurant recommendations and reservations - does restaurant, menu, and catered office-lunch consulting - and guides Mexican food-centric walking/tasting tours.
Consider her your one-stop-shop. Oh, and your virtual "Big Apple fairy godmother."
- Likes: Mexican food, my DVR (that device that records live TV), salted-caramel anything, homemade lemonade, bubble tea, Manhattan, Brooklyn Heights, Paris, chips and cheese-dip from Q’doba, jogging
- Dislikes: Strip malls, salmon, Kombucha, the gym, dating in NYC, eel
- All Time Favorite Restaurants: The Riviera (El Paso, TX), The Meeting House (Amagansett, NY), A La Petite Chaise (Paris, FR)
- Foods I cannot live without: Mexican food (namely: cheese enchiladas, chile con queso, rajas, chilaquiles, tostados, fideo, pastel de tres leches, etc.), Buttercup cupcakes, Sour Patch Kids “Fruit Salad,” dried cherries, Berthillon’s salted-caramel ice cream, Haagen Dazs, homemade lemonade, chips and cheese-dip from Q’doba
- Best Meal Ever: Mexican food in my hometown of El Paso, Texas – it’s always the “best meal ever”
Contributions
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It had been nearly 4-years since my last meal at A Voce and, to be quite honest, I was a bit apprehensive about returning. While I don't recall it being bad, per se, I do remember walking away from my experience wondering what all of the food blogger...
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Last night, five local food writers were invited to a 7-course menu tasting at Mole's newest location on the Upper East Side. Upon arrival, the very first thing I observed was how much larger this location seemed than its 3 siblings (Mole has 3 other...
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Originally, the four of us had plans to dine at Eleven Madison Park. "Girls, forget Eleven Madison," her text read, "I just scored us a reservation for opening night at The NoMad! It's Chef Daniel Humm's newest...
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Shortly after she died in 2005, Guernsey's Auction House took inventory of Rosa Parks' Detroit homes and found a treasure trove of personal papers/correspondence, clothing, furniture, family bibles, school books, tributes from world leaders and...
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To me, nothing tastes more like summer than fresh, white corn and sauteed Vidalia onions. Pair those ingredients with Rotel, a can of Texas' finest diced tomatoes and green chiles, and what do you have? An incredibly robust, flavorful,...
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Just because I'm from a Texas border town does not necessarily mean that I've been automatically equipped with a kick-ass margarita recipe. In fact, on my recent visit to California, my family and I invited my cousins over to our place for a...
