Woodside and Sunnyside are two historically Irish neighborhoods in Queens, the most ethnically diverse borough in New York City. After our taco battle that pitted Brooklyn against Queens (Manhattan won, strangely enough), Carolyn and I decided on a new challenge: between the two great Irish neighborhoods of Woodside and Sunnyside, which has the best and most “authentic” Irish pub? We knew the task was going to be difficult. It was going to require drinking lots of beer and whiskey and eating pub food, but we bravely volunteered. We each picked three pubs (I picked three in Woodside and Carolyn picked three in Sunnyside), and out of those three we selected a winner for the other to try. In the end, could we agree on the best pub? The suspense is killing you, isn’t it? - JOSEPH MCKEOWN
Read moreBattle of the Boroughs: Tacos
New York City has a lot of restaurants. Some of them are pretty good; some of them are terrible. Since we love food and we love New York City, we’d thought it be interesting to have a food “borough off” between Brooklyn and Queens. The question: which borough has the better tacos? To achieve this important but ultimately impossible task (there are so many tacos to try even in just these two boroughs) Joseph and Carolyn sampled numerous places in their respective boroughs and out of these picked a winner for the other to try. Then they each decided: which is the best? The answer might surprise you.
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