For those in the know, there is only one cheesecake: Junior’s. Indeed, Junior’s has been called the “World’s Most Fabulous Cheesecake” by scores of media, including The Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine, NBC’s Today and ABC’s Good Morning America, not to mention by countless celebrities, entertainers, politicians as well as other notables. Recently, Thrillist named Junior’s cheesecake one of the fifty things you need to eat before you die. But the proof is in the tasting: Junior’s sells over ten million slices of cheesecake each year.
The man behind this extraordinary success is Alan Rosen: the third generation of the Rosen family to lead the venerable brand. Born and raised in New York, he grew up watching his father, Walter, run the original Junior’s restaurant. While in high school and college, Alan spent his summers learning the business while also acting as a manager at the original Brooklyn location. There was little doubt that he would one day guide the company that was founded by his grandfather, Harry, in 1950.
After graduating from Cornell University’s School of Hotel Management in 1991, Alan spent three years working at other industry restaurants before returning to Junior’s. He started off at Junior’s as the Director of Marketing, with a goal towards growing and expanding the business beyond the original Brooklyn location.
And grown it has. Co-owner with his brother, Kevin, Alan celebrated Junior’s 50th anniversary in May 2000 by opening a second location in Manhattan’s world famous Grand Central Terminal. In 2006, Alan brought the restaurant to a hugely successful Broadway debut as he opened a new location in the heart of Times Square. Two years later, in 2008, he opened a restaurant in the Foxwoods Tower in Foxwoods Resort & Casino. Junior’s also has operations in Barclays Center in Downtown Brooklyn. In 2015, Alan expanded Junior’s baking operations and opened a 103,000 sq. ft. baking facility in Burlington, New Jersey. This year has been full of exciting news for Junior’s Restaurant; Alan announced that he will open a Junior’s Restaurant in Boca Raton, Florida, in September 2016. Most recently, Alan broke the news that there will be a second Midtown location of Junior’s Restaurant, opening in 2017.
In addition, Alan has grown the Junior’s brand internationally. Junior’s cheesecake is sold in Japan, France and South Korea where two licensed retail outlets recently opened.
Today, Alan oversees the restaurants, retail bakeries, wholesale and mail order operations, which generates over $65 million in sales annually. Junior’s serves over 5,000 customers daily and sells approximately 20,000 cheesecakes every week.
*In honor of National Cheesecake Day, Junior’s Restaurant is having a Super Summer Sale at their online store from July 29th to July 31st! All cakes will be on sale for up to 50% off, and can be purchased by visiting https://www.juniorscheesecake.com/all-items/.
Junior’s Cheesecake – Brooklyn
386 Flatbush Avenue EXT
Brooklyn, New York 11201
(718) 852-5257
Junior’s Cheesecake – Times Square
West 45th St. between
Broadway and 8th Ave.
(212) 302-2000
Are you hungry? Then New York City is the place to be this season.
Found at the glorious Henn na Hotel New York is the fantastic GOSUKE. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are served here at the place where the hip and happy come to stay for a perfect staycation or vacation getaway. The authentic Japanese restaurant located inside the lobby serves up a superb dishes that will bring bliss to your life.
Chefs highlight over 50 years of experience handling Japanese cuisine in Japan and New York City. This wonderful restaurant highlights a menu of fresh sushi and sashimi meals. You are greeted by staff who passionately cares about your dinning experience. They want you to feel the same love they have for food with each delicate curated plate.
Il Tinello East never goes out of style. In a City with thousands of restaurants, this sparkling gem of a business outshines many. The treasures found at Il Tinello East blend years of tradition with innovative Italian cooking and provide a rich experience through presentation that is purely matched by a delicious menu.
The menu boasts a lunch and dinner service that is notably divine in presentation and taste factors that all together create a magical experience. The fresh homemade pastas, regional ingredients and diverse wine list are all desirable. Portions are as large as skyscrapers and tastes are as rich as the Wall Street stock markets.
Such highlights at this quintessential restaurant include antipastos of Grilled Portobello with mixed green salad, goat cheese, balsamic dressing; Capesante with pan-seared jumbo sea scallops, brandy, saffron, herb sauce; and Crispy Calamari with tomato sauce. Enjoy the house favorite Caesar Salad for two prepared table side and served classic style: or the Siciliana with mesclun, tomatoes, onions, feta cheese, and cucumbers.
pastaRAMEN is another fantastic option for the hungry New Yorker. It is coming to SoHo this April for a month-long dinner party powered by HexClad, the fastest-growing cookware brand in America.
The secret, speakeasy-style experience from Montclair Hospitality Group will head to NYC following sold out dinners in Seattle, Jersey City, Miami and Los Angeles. Those pop-up dinners were so successful that pastaRAMEN opened its first permanent restaurant location earlier this year in Montclair. pastaRAMEN’s SoHo omakase pop-up will feature a one-of-a-kind Wafu (Japanese inspired) Italian omakase dinner from James Beard Nominated Chef Robbie Felice complete with truffles, caviar, uni, mouth-watering Ramen and more. This 10-course meal will expertly fuse Italian and Japanese cuisines into one-of-kind dishes such as Cacio e Pepe Fritti, Truffle Porcini Ramen and Dry Aged Japanese A5 Wagyu. Reservations open on March 31.
And, we hear that Swee
The chef is famed for “Food & Wine Magazine’s” “Best New Chef” of 2015, was previously in the kitchen at three-Michelin-starred Eleven Madison Park where he worked under Chef Daniel Humm for six years and rose to Executive Sous Chef before opening Michelin-starred Betony, where he received a three-star review from The New York Times.
For Sweetbriar, he has created a chef-driven dining experience that shares a spirit with his Ribs n Riesling pop-up. It combines his personal history of growing up in Chapel Hill, North Carolina cooking and eating barbecue, and his professional background in fine dining. The experience is centered around live fire cooking and the bounty of New York State’s seasonal produce.
Are you looking for a summer rooftop terrace with a view of St. Patrick’s Cathedral and Rockefeller Center?Duomo 51 is open for breakfast, lunch, dinner or cocktails. Finding the restaurant is not the easiest as there is no sign outside, as of yet. Duomo 51 is located on the seventh floor of the DoubleTree Hotel directly across the street from Rockefeller’s Center.
You take the elevator to get up there and it is under renovation and dirty, but once the elevator opens there is an expansive dining room that leads into the glass-enclosed terrace, with views of St. Patrick’s Cathedral. The terrace features a retractable roof and heaters. On either side will be cocktail bars and chairs that over look Rockefeller Center.
Duomo 51, opened a month ago and it really needs time to get the kinks out. The terrace is not finished and seems a little sterile. The servers are not exactly trained. When my first server poured my water, he got more on my phone, glasses and table and then walked away without cleaning it up. When I asked for a paper napkin he reached over and took the cloth napkin and didn’t even wipe the top which would have had more water flying, until I asked. Thankfully I ordered a drink and that was perfection. Lost in Rome ($20) is Vodka served with a blueberry Puree, lime, mint and ginger beer served in a shaker.
The menu is Tuscan-Italian inspired, so for appetizers we started out with Burrata ($20) with tri colored Herman’s tomato’s lightly glazed with balsamic and olive oil. The Burrata melted in your mouth and was delicious with the sun-dried tomato olive oil served with the bread. Delicious.
The fabulous olive oil with sun-dried tomato’s
We also had the Gamberi al Brandy ($25) grilled shrimp with cannellini beans, fresh tomatoes, and cognac sauce, but the sauce is non existent, so basically grilled shrimp with beans, that lacked flavor. Yeah for the delicious olive oil infusion.
I ordered a Malbec, Aymara ($15) that had a nice balance and body.
For our main course we shared the handmade pasta Carbonara style ($27) Spaghetti here is served with organic egg, pecorino cheese, smoked pancetta and ground pepper is offered. When the cheese was served it was not freshly ground and the dish lacked peas and had too much salt, so nice but not great.
We also ordered Dover Sole (MP) prepared table side. This delightful fish was lightly sautéed and was served in a lemon sauce, but not enough of it. Also though the fish was deboned, it was not served to us. They offer the wrong utensil, so when serving myself the fish slid off the spoon, but the dish itself was something I would order again.
For dessert homemade Ice Cream with warm berries ($12) and a homemade Panna Cotta with fresh berries ($12). Both of these were truly wonderful. My guest had a cappuccino ($6) with a heart on top, as well. It was a terrific ending.
Duomo 51 offers elegant private event spaces with many different attractive setups based on the size of the party and occasion and you can have a party up to 130.
The lavatory/bathroom is located down a flight of long basement stairs and is not so clean. Also on the elevator down there is no L button instead you have to push G for ground. All 6 of us in the elevator thought that stood for garage. Still there is much to admire about Duomo 51 and look forward to trying them again in another couple of months. However if you are planning an Easter brunch, this just might be the perfect place for Brunch.
Duomo 51: 25 W 51st St., 7th Floor
Patsy’s Italian Restaurant has been known for years as the restaurant made famous by Frank Sinatra, and his family still enjoys dining here whenever they are in town. George Clooney’s aunt, cabaret singer and actress Rosemary Clooney, was once quoted, “Patsy’s is still the best Italian restaurant in town. I make a pasta pilgrimage there every time I return.”
Other long-time high profile patrons who consider Patsy’s Italian Restaurant their Manhattan dining room include, Tony Bennett, Michael Bublé, George Clooney, Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs, Tony Danza, Jennifer Lopez, Liza Minnelli, Al Pacino, Rihanna, Martha Stewart, Ben Stiller, Oprah Winfrey, and many others.
Celebrity Chef Sal Scognamillo
We all had the pleasure to join Celebrity Chef Sal Scognamillo for a very special Private Lunch on March 18th hosted City Guide and Eli Marcus.
Eli Marcus,George Pettignano
Chef Sal shared some of his riveting stories about celebrities, sports stars and others famous guests. Ha also told us a few one-of-a-kind frank Sinatra stories about Frank’s exclusive table near we were seated.
Popular entertainer George Pettignano, a cousin of Bobby Rydell, sang classic tunes from the 40’s to 70’s ranging from Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, The Beatles, Elvis & more! George, as a former Hollywood stunt man, shared some of his classic stories
Eli Marcus
Everyone enjoyed a great meal and then danced the afternoon away!
Eli Marcus, Celebrity Chef Sal Scognamillo, Errol Rappaport
Errol Rappaport, Celebrity Chef Sal Scognamillo,Eli Marcus
Steve Garrin, wife, George Pettignano
Colin O’Leary Celebrity Chef Sal Scognamillo,Rena Sylvester, Eli Marcus
Colin O’Leary,Rena SylvesterErrol Rappaport
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