For a restaurant that goes so far as to stake its name (“fresh pasta” in French) in its signature dishes, Pâtes Fraîches does well, boiling its doughs down from organic rice, rye, wheat, barley, buckwheat and chestnut flours. The restaurant’s rye fettuccine is excellent, mixed with slivers of Virginia ham, zucchini and a handful of [...]

Pâtes Fraîches pushes past the red sauce set

PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES
Circle a block or two in the East Village and you’re bound to pass by at least a few empty windows. It starts slowly, but it’s a vacant trend that grows at each turn, corner shops and cafes blocked out by butcher paper and leasing [...]

It’s been less than a month since Pates Fraiches uncovered its dining room at First and Elm, but it seems lines are already being drawn–Yelp started turning in its knee-jerk reaction to the place just days after it opened. While it’s never fair to judge a restaurant so early in its existence, my trip was [...]

Do you want it? Or need it? Depends.

You switch out your light bulbs, upgrade your cleaning supplies, even hassle your supe to fix—for good—that nasty habit your shower faucet has of always running. And yet, as an apartment dweller, you can never go green enough—something about the landlord not quite digging your bold idea for [...]