Grub’s Gold: The Best From Year One

Ah, how time gets away from us! It was only one year ago that Grub Street began. How we long for those innocent days of yore! We poked through our archives, and, while we had to put a few personal favorites aside, here’s our short list of Grub Street’s Greatest Hits.

Posted 09/27/07 in Grub Street : User's Guide

Tags: adam platt, anthony bourdain, beatrice, charlie rose, dirty delta, jason neroni, mario batali, red hook, sam mason, tailor, tila tequila, User's Guide

‘MySpace Queen’ Tila Tequila Drinks Sprite With her Fugu, Likes Her Omelettes With Ketchup

Tila “Tequila” Nguyen, the “Madonna of MySpace” per Time magazine, met at least some of her 1.7 million virtual friends when she lived in New York City and “experimented with drugs and a hardcore lifestyle,” according to her bio. She eventually moved to Hollywood to start her career as an Internet celebrity, model, and singer, and by the time she was returning here weekly to host VH1’s Pants Off Dance Off she had moved on to vices like dirty-water hot dogs, mozzarella sticks, and mushroom pizzas. This week Tila flew in once again to promote her new self-released single and to pose for the cover of yet another magazine (“It’s the Baddass issue,” she explained). We asked her what she noshed on to get through the grind.

Posted 03/16/07 in Grub Street : The New York Diet

Tags: bagel maven, basta pasta, masa, megu, new york diet, nobu, red bamboo, the new york diet, tila nguyen, tila tequila, zen palate