These sisters are making their way through the Big Apple, and they’re not sugar-coating their reviews of Manhattan’s culinary spots.
The Shapiro sisters – Sarah, 32, Madison, 29, Carly, 28, and Julia, 21 – run the popular social media food account @sistersnackingWho has almost half a million followers on both Instagram and TikTok.
The Glastonbury, Conn., natives’ food can be sweet as well as salty — especially their “distinguished or exaggeratedseries, where they visit famous Big Apple eateries.
“is it worth it wait in line at katzWe’d say yes, but is spending $1 billion worth it peter luger’sWe went back and didn’t get great food and were very disappointed. “It was a huge thing that sparked a lot of opinions,” Carly told The Post.
“People get so upset, they say, ‘I’ve been eating here since I was 12. How dare you?'”
“We get a lot of things like, ‘Go back to Ohio’ and ‘You guys are kids; You don’t know anything about food,'” Madison said.
sisters who are participating Foodiconpart of NYC Wine and Food Festivalalso on 19th October cooked on carbon -Declaring the hot Italian restaurant not worth the hype.
“I think originally the food used to be good, but now it’s become so touristy that they’ve stopped caring about it,” said Madison, who calls Hoboken home.
Rao’sThe East Harlem landmark remains iconic, the sisters said, listing the mouth-watering old-school Italian dishes they ordered.
“Chicken Scarpariello, meatballs, they have this pesto pasta. Even the Penny Vodka was completely over the top,” Madison gushed.
“Soft” burgers in the original form jg mellonHowever, he said, it has been overstated.
“No spice,” Madison said. “We’ve also got chili and they just put chunks of American cheese on it. “Sometimes grilled cheese is not completely melted.”
Girls who can make five figures for a post also receive comments that they are using “daddy’s money” to pay for their food expenses.
“We literally make our own money and reinvest it and buy food so we can create content for people who watch it,” Madison said of their videos. Top 15 Burgers in NYC, Ultimate Food Crawl Flushing, Queens, Everything We Ate in WilliamsburgAnd 48 hours in montauk,
Their bread and butter comes from partnerships with brands like Amazon, McDonald’s, Pepsi, American Express, Uber Eats, and DoorDash.
“I would say brand partnerships are a big part of the income. But we also get paid on ad revenue on our website, and we also get paid on views on our TikTok videos,” Madison explained.
Both Madison and Carly, along with their oldest sister Sarah, work full-time at @sistersnacking, while the youngest, Julia, is a senior at Syracuse University.
The girls started @sistersnacking on Instagram in 2015, but it was during the pandemic — while they were living together in their Connecticut childhood home — that they found the recipe for success.
“We did Connecticut takeout reviews. , , And we started making it really reliable here as we were driving around and looking for where to get takeout. And it was really cool to see the impact it had on the restaurant at that time,” Madison said.
In June 2020, he began sharing videos on TikTok. The post that put them on the map was in December 2021, when they appeared pieces of meatWhich had just opened in NoMad.
“It was $29 for steak, unlimited fries, salad. And so we posted it and it went mega viral at that point, like six million views,” Madison recalled.
The restaurant, which was “empty and really quiet” when he dined there, also saw an increase in the number of customers.
“There were lines of people waiting for hours,” said Madison, who previously worked in partnerships and sales for UberEats and digital partnerships at Shake Shack.
girls, Whose followers now include chef Bobby FlayHave become celebrities.
“We were walking in London and this guy ran up to us,” Carly said. “And he was like, ‘I’m sorry, I love sister snacking so much. I had to come over and say hi.'”
