There’s nothing like a cold snap to send me in search of some fiery kimchi. Luckily, just steps from the Gourmelle house is Taste of Tribeca stalwart Kori (253 Church St between Leonard and Franklin). The cozy Korean eatery is the perfect place to find warming food that will chase the chill away.

 

So many of Taste of Tribeca’s wonderful restaurants have Christmas delicacies ready for the holidays. But for Gourmelle, Christmas is not complete without a big, puffy panettone. It’s the perfect treat to start Christmas day, a reviver after the kids wake pre-dawn to see what Santa delivered. It's also perfect midnight snack food on New year's eve if you need something to soak up all the bubbly.

There’s no better way to overcome the glut of Thanksgiving turkey, sweet potatoes and pecan pie than a fiery curry and fresh raita. So Gourmelle dragged her jaded palette along to Baluchi’s just across from our dear P.S. 234. There’s something so comforting about curry but the little Gourmites had brought along a friend who had never had Indian food before. He claimed however that he could “do spicy.” Just to be sure he wouldn’t go hungry however, the three young ones ordered mango lassis all round.

Taste of Tribeca attracts foodies like bees to honey and this blog has been lucky enough to have had terrific tastemakers writing for the past year. But our famous Forklifter has gone to pastures new (read she's now a Middle School parent). While the Sugarlovin Fashionista has forged even further into the food world as a television personality/cake queen and soon-to-be author of a tome on gateaux- more information to follow.