Taxi Gourmet – Fasten your seat belt and let the food quest begin…

Hagan Blount is a hungry man on a New York mission: “For thirty-one days straight, I will eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner at NYC’s best restaurants with more than 60 of the city’s most influential food writers, blogging our every bite.” On Monday, I joined him for two of his …

There is a lot of bad baklava in this world. If you,ve ever fallen victim to soggy, honey-soaked, butter-laden pastry where nuts get lost and no amount of strong coffee can beat back the sweetness, you know what I,m talking about. The only thing bad about the baklava at Güllüoglu …

Photo by Shedboy on Flickr I know it’s a big cliché to take stock and rank the results of your stock-taking at the end of the year, but I can’t help it. This year’s Taxi Gourmet top 10 is going to be a little different from last year’s, though. For …

Photo by talitasouza on Flickr New York dresses up for the holidays like no place I’ve ever seen. If you don’t live in the Biggest Apple, I hope you have a chance to take a cab in this crazy city and see all the glitz for yourself someday. Wherever you …

'Middle Eastern food' = Yemeni food at Hadramout Restaurant For Salem Omar, a New York cabbie-to-be who grew up in a Bedouin family in Yemen, Hadramout Restaurant has been a culinary and cultural refuge since he arrived in the US in 2006. Almost every week, my taxi schoolmate descends the …

Oleg Roitman (L) and Andrew Vollo (R). Photo courtesy of Storycorps Every week, we focus the spotlight on a taxi driver from some part of the globe whose story inspires us to look at the world through a different lens. This week’s featured cabbie is Oleg Roitman, a New York …

I passed the taxi exam. I passed the taxi exam. I passed the taxi exam. I walked home from La Guardia Community College repeating my results (96%!) in my head, nodding at every yellow cab that passed me by and sending each driver a silent salute. I’m a licensed New …

Photo by KGradinger on Flickr Verditos (the green VW bugs that serve as taxis in Mexico City) enjoy dubious status around the Districto Federal. Also known as vochos, they’ve earned an unfortunate reputation as vehicles for muggings, kidnappings, and general mistreatment of Mexicans and foreigners alike. Despite the risks involved, …

The corner of Burnside Ave and Davidson St., "where food sticks to your soul." Mohammed Abdul may be the owner of Accra Restaurant, but the Aunties run the show at this soul food outpost in the Bronx. When I walked into the place on Saturday afternoon, I noticed a banner …

Every week, we focus the spotlight on a taxi driver from some part of the globe whose story inspires us to look at the world through a different lens. This week’s featured cabbie is İhsan Aknur, a happy-go-lucky hack from Istanbul, Turkey who loves his job and readily admits that …