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January 2009 - Posts
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Someone had to employ all those out-of-work actors, I guess. Read More...
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Aquavit will be extending its Restaurant Week menu. Photo: Noah Kalina Technically, the winter round of Restaurant Week ends today, January 30th. In reality though, 2009 is shaping up to be a Restaurant Year for many establishments, with more and more Read More...
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Atrium at 632 Hudson Photo: Toni Meneguzzo Between homes, San Domenico is still kicking. To test their sea legs before reopening as SD26, Tony and Marisa May, the father and daughter team behind the classic Italian, are hosting a Valentine's "One Read More...
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The Meatpacking gastropub, The Inn LW12, has finally given up the ghost. According to one of its neighbors, approximately two weeks ago a "For Rent" sign appeared in its window. The scene-y spot opened in March 2007 after several years in the Read More...
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– It isn't so much the fast food that makes you obese, it is the portions. [ Chicago Tribune ] – But do vegetarians really have better sex? [ Slate ] – Contaminated peanut butter crisis has hit U.S. military bases in Europe. [ The Read More...
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Photo: courtesy of Jerry Rutolo Over the years, photographer Jerry Rutolo has shot nearly every major chef you can think of, many of them before they even lost their baby fat. Since everyone likes a trip down memory lane, we thought it would be fun to Read More...
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Top Chef , Season 5, Episode 10. Photo: Courtesy of Bravo TV. Each Thursday the Internet's food sites produce countless recaps and commentary on the previous night's episode of Top Chef . Here are a choice few: – Is New York ever going to Read More...
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Artisanal's getting some West Coast cousins. photo: courtesy of Artisanal Terrance Brennan announced today that he's bringing his ever- popular Murray Hill brasserie Artisanal to the West Coast. Artisanal Brasserie & Wine Bar and The Artisanal Read More...
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The Bocuse d'Or trophy, modeled after founder Paul Bocuse Photo: courtesy of Bocuse d'Or The Bocuse d'Or competition results are in! As we previously announced, the Norwegian team (headed by 28 year-old Geir Skeie) took home the gold, with Read More...
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The Times noted yesterday that the popular Chelsea Jamaican joint Maroons is closing its doors on January 31st. Gone as well are dreams of opening a Harlem outpost (in the works since 2005). Meanwhile, the owners are looking to relocate to a new space Read More...
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Trigo Photo: Evan W. Miller TriBeCa is home to Trigo , a big new brasserie where the Mediterranean menu stresses sharable plates, abetted by an antipasti bar and a stone hearth turning out flatbreads; the imposing, vaguely industrial setting is a modern Read More...
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Chef Daniel Boulud (2009 honorary chairman), Paul Bocuse (founder & president, Bocuse d'Or) and Fabrice Desvignes (2009 president of the jury and last year's winner). photo: F. Mainard The Bocuse d'Or competition started yesterday in Lyons, Read More...
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– The manufacturer behind the peanut salmonella outbreak is in hot water. [ USA Today ] – The Bocuse d'Or is on! [ NYT ] – Ruh roh. Traces of mercury has been found in corn syrup. [ Star Tribune ] – The Times addresses last Read More...
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Vino 313 Photo: Evan W. Miller A civilized alternative to Murray Hill’s fratty meat-market antics, Vino 313 , the new wine bar just off the Third Avenue runway, offers more refined imbibing for grown-up folk; look for a casual, candlelit setting Read More...
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Fishtail will be watching the game on Sunday. photo: Evan W. Miller Want some more Super Bowl options ? Try these. In addition to the $20.09 restaurant week dinners, David Burke's Fishtail is offering two Super Bowl specials for those watching the Read More...
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Tarry Lodge 18 Mill St. (Abendroth Ave.) Port Chester, NY 10573 914-939-3111 Food Decor Service Cost 24 24 20 $50 Chef-superstar Mario Batali and partner Joe Bastianich have “knocked it out of the park” with this much-“hyped” revamp Read More...
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The website for Balthazar. The website for LA's Dusty's. Keith McNally's Balthazar has understandably been copied across the country by restaurateurs looking to recreate some of the original's magic combination of bistro and glitz. But Read More...
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You don't have to go to Tampa Bay for Super Bowl eats. This Sunday the Super Bowl steamrolls across the American psyche. Here are a few spots where you can tackle your game-day appetite: Bar Q is offering a slew of delivery options including chicken Read More...
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– Starbucks is looking to lay off 1,000 employees. [ Seattle Times ] – A Japanese study has found cloned meat is safe for food. [ Reuters ] – The economy, contamination scares and more are leading some back to vegetable gardening. [ Read More...
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Today came the news that the venerable 21 Club will no longer refuse service to the tie-less. But before you start writing requiems for a bygone era, we'd remind you that the restaurant still prefers that men wear a tie and insists they wear a jacket. Read More...
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Terrance Brennan photo: courtesy of Picholine On January 21st, Picholine hosted the third night in the Zagat Vintage Dinner series. Chef Terrance Brennan talked to the Buzz about the event, which found him deconstructing oysters Rockefeller, cooking a Read More...
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Olana photo: Ryan Charles Fans of $24.07 lunches and $35 dinners, rejoice! Gramercy Park's Olana is having a great Restaurant Week. So great, in fact, that the New American has decided to keep the menu going until 2010. See Olana's full Restaurant Read More...
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Tim Zagat and David Fishman photo: Evan W. Miller Tim Zagat hardly lacks for interesting dining companions, but his tablemate at a recent power lunch – an ambitious young food critic with a possible movie deal under his belt – was unusually Read More...
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– Really, there are a lot of peanut products on that do-not-buy list. [ NYT ] – Restaurant marriage proposals are a tricky thing. [ Gourmet ] – Girl Scout cookie counts just ain't what they used to be. [ Dallas News ] – Australian Read More...
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Tom Colicchio and Stephen Starr on Top Chef Season 5, Episode 9 photo: Courtesy of Bravo Each Thursday the Internet's food sites produce countless recaps and commentary on the previous night's episode of Top Chef . Here are a choice few: – Read More...
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There are worse fans to have than the police commissioner. While covering the inauguration festivities in DC, Greg Kelly (NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly's son and Good Day New York co-host) got a hankering for a hamburger and pulled into a McDonald's. Read More...
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Hey, big spenders! One of New York's Most Popular restaurants, Tabla , is about to mark its 10th year with a blowout, six-course dinner prepared by some of the city's best chefs. Already on board are Dan Barber ( Blue Hill ), David Chang ( Momofuku Read More...
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Roy Yamaguchi photo: Courtesy of Roy's Hawaiian fusion spot Roy's has hopped on the recession-deal boat with a three-course winter feast for $35. Including choices like seafood chowder, blackened shrimp, "Hawaii Kai"–style beef Read More...
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– Considering the salmonella scare, you may want to avoid peanut products for a bit. [ Washington Post ] – Anonymity for critics is "a tempest in a crockpot." [ MP:C ] – New restaurants are facing especially anxious times. Read More...
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Atria photo: Gary Landsman Lightly reinterpreting the former Grayz space in Midtown, the new Modern European duplex Atria is set in a landmarked Rockefeller townhouse featuring a bar/lounge on the ground floor, along with a soaring, eight-story atrium Read More...
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President Obama has been sworn in, and the Lincoln-themed Inaugural Luncheon is finishing up. Ted Kennedy, who collapsed during the meal, is reportedly going to be fine . And if you're wishing this memorable moment in our country's history could Read More...
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The Russian Tea Room photo: Courtesy of the Russian Tea Room This year, February 14th lands on a Saturday, so Valentine's Day dinners are likely to book up quickly. To ensure you don't get stuck with frozen pizza (and heartbreak), make plans now Read More...
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By Jacqueline Wasilczyk, ZAGAT.com staff editor The Patina Restaurant Group hopes its reincarnated La Fonda del Sol shines. Nick Valenti, chief executive officer of Patina Restaurant Group Photo: Courtesy of Patina Restaurant Group The relaunch of iconic Read More...
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You can take lessons on apathy and disaffection from the wait staff here. Read More...
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Anthos photo: Noah Kalina Don't forget, Winter Restaurant Week kicks off this Sunday, January 18th. From Anthos ( menu ) to ilili ( menu ) to Zoë ( menu ), great restaurants across the city still have spots left for three-course $24.07 lunches Read More...
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Cuy, otherwise known as your childhood pet. photo: Merri Howard In Lima, Peru, local foodies ecstatically describe the wonders of the Nouvelle Andean cuisine of local culinary powerhouse Gastón Acurio (who recently opened a restaurant in San Francisco), Read More...
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Celebrate the year of the Ox. Photo: Bernard Oh If you didn't get your fill of New Year's festivities a few weeks ago, take heart, because the Year of the Ox starts on January 26th. The celebrations continue for 15 days, including the annual Lunar Read More...
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– The Madoff scandal spreads to cookbooks. [ NYT ] – Those who don't like dessert have a bone to pick with Restaurant Weeks. [ Wined and Dined ] – Are VitaminWater's health claims a bottle of lies? [ NYP ] – Coffee prices Read More...
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Aquavit photo: Noah Kalina If you're the kind of person who says "meh" in the face of economic chaos, you might be interested in the debut of the Italian Wine Merchants' new series at Aquavit . On January 22nd, the Midtowner is hosting Read More...
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Top Chef Season 5, Episode 8 photo: Courtesy of Bravo Each Thursday the Internet's food sites produce countless recaps and commentary on the previous night's episode of Top Chef . Here are a choice few: – While that "I [heart] Padma" Read More...
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North Square photo: Courtesy of North Square With Restaurant Week kicking off Sunday, many of the 250-plus participating restaurants are adding extra incentives to lure in diners. Washington Square sleeper, North Square is bringing down prices on 15 select Read More...
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BR Guest has brought the ax down on three of its big properties due to economic woes, Eater reports . Effective today the group's highly regarded SoHo Italian Fiamma is closed, with the restaurant becoming an event space and chef Fabio Trabocchi going Read More...
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– How to be a great restaurant customer. [ Gourmet ] – Related: getting the most from your Restaurant Week experiences. [ NYP ] – New York's Rainbow Room is still open, but other restauratuers are circling nonetheless. [ NRN , NYO Read More...
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This just in from the Susan Magrino Agency: “ One&Only Cape Town will welcome Gordon Ramsay’s maze restaurant at the April 2009 launch of the highly anticipated resort located on the Victoria & Alfred waterfront. As the first urban Read More...
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Steve Feinberg of Speedball Fitness The new year ushers in a slew of resolutions, with the pledge to revamp eating habits a frequent list-topper. For advice on how to watch waistlines but still enjoy eating out, we asked three fitness instructors for Read More...
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After being sworn in next Tuesday, President-elect Barack Obama will lunch on a menu designed in honor of President Lincoln that includes 1860s fare like seafood stew in puff pastry and a brace of pheasant and duck. If you're not invited to that meal, Read More...
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Apiary photo: Ryan Charles The East Village New American Apiary has a new chef. Scott Bryan (ex Veritas ) has joined the team and, while he gets his bearings in the new kitchen, the restaurant is serving a transition menu for the rest of the month. Expect Read More...
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To go along with boss Tom Colicchio's weekly Tom: Tuesday Dinner series, Craft executive chef Damon Wise is rolling out a dinner series of his own . Starting this week and only available on Fridays, the new restaurant-in-a-restaurant, Damon: Frugal Read More...
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City Winery photo: Evan W. Miller Unlike anything else in town, City Winery, a mammoth new winery/eatery/performance space in West SoHo, not only stocks an extensive selection of global wines but also makes its own vino on-site – and offers a program Read More...
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– PETA helped save a 140-year-old lobster from a deadly dinner date. [ Gothamist ] – Marmite cheese was a surprise blockbuster in the UK this Christmas. [ Daily Mail ] – Many are hoping an Obama administration will sort out the confusion Read More...
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If they ain't serving these pies in heaven, then I don't wanna go. Read More...
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The spectacle that is the Rainbow Room has gotten even showier. Five days after the embattled Cipriani family , which runs the Room, announced they would be shuttering the adjoining Rainbow Grill , the company's landlord Tishman Speyer has kicked Read More...
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The soaring atrium at Atria. photo: Courtesy of Atria The former Grayz space at 13-15 West 54th St. is back in business as Atria with a refurbished look and a familiar face in the kitchen, chef Martin Brock, who ran the same kitchen under Gary Kunz. The Read More...
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Café des Artistes is hosting one of Zagat's Vintage Dinners. photo: Lauren Dru Zagat's Vintage Dinner Series is almost upon us. Starting on Monday, Jan. 12th, at Café des Artistes and running weekly until March 25th's already Read More...
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Le Cirque and its wine lounge are extending their Restaurant Week prices. photo: Ryan Charles Le Cirque is at it again. For the second year in a row , the stunner in the Bloomberg building is extending its Restaurant Week deals until Febuary 12th, offering Read More...
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– French pastry chef Gaston Lenôtre has died at 88. [ Independent , NYT ] – Despite a recent dip, food prices ended 2008 up seven percent. [ Reuters ] – PETA is offering $10k for anyone who can make a suitable faux gras. [ Fork Read More...
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Times may be tough, but you wouldn’t know it from the barrage of restaurants slated to open in the next few months. Capital Grille: The Midtown chophouse opens its second location in the McGraw-Hill building in early March (1251 Sixth Ave.; www.thecapitalgrille.com Read More...
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Toby Young (right) joins the judges table. photo: Courtesy of Bravo Each Thursday the Internet's food sites produce countless recaps and commentary on the previous night's episode of Top Chef . Here are a choice few: – Did anyone really Read More...
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Good thing Barack Obama kept his day job. Back when he was a young state senator in 2001, Obama participated in the first episode of Check, Please! , a Chicago public television program in which a group of locals compare notes on restaurants. But our Read More...
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Klee photo: Courtesy of Klee Sunday dinner is a grand old tradition, and one that cash-strapped restaurants would really like you to celebrate with them this season. To that end, two restaurants have just come out with Sunday dinner specials to entice Read More...
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Co.'s "Ham and Cheese" pizza By the long lines at Chelsea newcomer Co., you’d think pizza just came to America – but perhaps that’s no surprise given that Jim Lahey of Sullivan Street Bakery renown is the man behind its Read More...
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The Times reported yesterday that Smith Street trailblazer Patois is planning to close shop on Sunday after 31 years in business. But that isn't the whole story. The popular bistro's owners tell us they are hoping to move the restaurant across Read More...
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– Anybody hungry for some squirrel? [ NYT ] – Virginia restaurants may go smoke-free. [ Washington Post ] – Your food coloring might actually be a crushed bug. [ The Stew ] – No wonder sushi is expensive when a premium tuna sells Read More...
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If the goal of most Top Chef testants is to eventually run a restaurant, then this season's Leah Cohen has already won. Previously sous chef at Centro Vinoteca for chef Anne Burrell, Cohen has been tapped to take the top spot at the Greenwich Village Read More...
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Breakfast at Balthazar makes a nice complement to all that syrup you're smelling. photo: Courtesy of Balthazar The smell is back. After a year-long hiatus the mysterious maple syrup–like smell (first sniffed way back in 2005 ) has reportedly Read More...
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Beekman Bar and Books photo: Courtesy of Beekman Bar and Books Reborn in its original Sutton Place location after a 10-year hiatus, Beekman Bar and Books (of the Bar and Books chain) brings back a touch of class to the area via a grown-up, book-lined Read More...
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Bar Blanc has launched a $35 prix fixe dinner. photo: Ryan Charles You don't have to wait until January 18th to get Restaurant Week prices. Greenwich Village French/Italian Bar Blanc today is launching a $35 three-course dinner menu that lasts all Read More...
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Mia Dona is offering Restaurant Week prices from Sunday–Friday. photo: Ryan Charles Ready, set, dial! Restaurant Week is back, offering three-course lunch and dinner prix fixes for $24.07 and $35, respectively, and the list of participating restaurants Read More...
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– Amidst the recession and rising rents, the beleaguered Cipriani family is closing New York's venerable Rainbow Room 's Rainbow Grill . [ AP ] – Restaurateurs are looking for relief this year in rent and commodity costs. [ NRN ] – Read More...
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The Buzz is on break until January 5, 2009. – The recession has curiously led to a milk surplus. [ NYT ] – And restaurant stocks are actually doing ok. For now. [ NRN ] – 2008 was a banner year for New York restaurants. [ NYT ] – Read More...
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