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

Hack #5349156 in Cab #100 on E. Houston St. If I had to search for 10 1/2 hours that were more hilarious, exhausting and vertigo-inducing than my first shift behind the wheel of New York yellow cab, I don’t think I could find them. Even in a state of intoxication, …

I’m trekking over to Team Systems Taxi Fleet at 4.30am tomorrow with two goals in mind: To watch the sun rise in New York City from behind the wheel of a yellow cab To prevent my passengers, my cab, and myself from running into any serious calamities Naturally my ridiculous …

Baby, you can drive my car. That’s what I was hoping the owner of the taxi garage on Bergen St. was going to tell me this morning when I bounced over there on Huseyin Kanal‘s recommendation. The cabbie assured me that it was a good garage, that it was clean, …

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 …