What is Salmaland? It’s a place where you can, quickly and painlessly, find answers to the eternal question, “Where should I eat?” To the left, you’ll find my current short-lists of where to eat in NYC; click on the neighborhood you want to eat in, or use the search tool to the right to look up a specific cuisine or restaurant name. Below, you’ll find weekly reports on my latest eating adventures. For more details about Salmaland, click on “read more” just below. Thanks for visiting!
The lists on the left are broken down by neighborhood—with more boroughs (including many more Brooklyn options) and neighborhoods, and cities, on the way. You’ll also find a variety of cuisines, environments, and price points.
How Salmaland Works:
The restaurant recommendations to the left are by no means comprehensive; they’re not meant to be. If they’re doing their job, they should be quick, easy-to-use, and headache-free. And I’ll be keeping them fresh by rotating in new material on a regular basis, so keep checking back. And down the middle of the page, you’ll find my notes on recent food adventures. I’ll be posting these at least a couple of times a week, to let you know about delicious discoveries that are worth your time (or hot new restaurants that aren’t).
In the restaurant listings, I’m using the following letters as shorthand for restaurants that are:
- CHP: Cheap/Casual
- MOD: Moderate (or can go either way)
- UPSC: Pricey/Upscale
- VGT: Vegetarian-friendly (and/or seafood-centric)
- DRNK: Drink destination
- GRP: Good for groups
To search by cuisine or restaurant name or abbreviation (like CHP or DRNK; see above), or to search by just about any word you can think of, type your term into the search-engine box (with the little magnifying glass above it) in the upper-right corner.
Please note: I’m mostly avoiding listing the generally exceptional, duly-noted restaurants that you probably already know about (the Le Bernardins, the Daniels, the Babbos, the Gramercy Taverns, etc.). I might include them occasionally, if I have some compelling reason to bring them up. Otherwise, let’s skip ahead to the places you may not know but definitely should, or may have forgotten, or can’t really live without knowing about.
Please also note: These lists represent my honest opinions; that’s all. There is no paid-for content on Salmaland. If any ads ever show up, they will be very, very clearly indicated as such—and will in no way influence editorial opinion.
Oh, and one last thing: What exactly is 1623 (the number at the top of this page) all about? I could say: “It’s the year when everyone else got a website, and here I am four centuries later.” But that wouldn’t be true—only vaguely true. And it wouldn’t be all that funny either. The strange truth is: It’s the number on a street sign that my friend Pableaux Johnson—New Orleans-based food writer and guru of all things gastronomically glorious and debauched—photographed somewhere in his hometown. I just like the way it looks. Pableaux also designed this website (actually, he encouraged me to create it in the first place).
I hope you’ll come back often, and thanks for reading.