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Photo: courtesy of Death and Co. In an effort to ramp up its food program, Death & Co. enlisted Luis Gonzalez (formerly of Mercer Kitchen, JoJo, and Bond Street) for a new dinner menu that launched this week. Among the offerings are tuna tartar with crushed avocado and housemade kettle chips ($12); pan-seared foie gras with a corn ...

Jehangir Mehta We’ll have to wait until November 22 to find out who will take the title of The Next Iron Chef, but our bet is on Graffiti’s Jehangir Mehta, for no other reason than he invited the Buzz’s Kathleen Squires to appear on the first two episodes of his web TV show, J Walk. Check out Kathleen and Jehangir ...

Má Pêche has started serving in the Chambers Hotel lobby mezzanine. Photo: courtesy of Má Pêche David Chang’s Momofuku empire expands northward with the arrival of Má Pêche, an upscale French-Vietnamese dining room inside Midtown’s Chambers Hotel (the erstwhile Town ...

Though it has been open to guests at the Jane Hotel for the past two weeks, the second branch of NoLita Moroccan Cafe Gitane opens to the general public on Monday, November 16 (113 Jane St.; 212-924-6700).

Maialino, Danny Meyer's latest, opens tomorrow night in the Gramercy Park Hotel space formerly inhabited by Wakiya. Initially open for dinner only, Monday–Saturday, the restaurant will launch breakfast in December with lunch following in January 2010. The environs include a trattoria (Monday–Thursday, 5:30–10:30 PM; ...

Finally, something that both the iPhone and the Droid does: Zagat To Go, our popular smartphone application for finding ratings and reviews of over 40,000 restaurants, hotels, nightlife and shopping worldwide, has come to Google's Android phone OS. And not only can you search for your favorite spots, the home-screen ...

Photos: Hernan F. Rodriguez Celeb chefs and 700 food fans gathered at The Water Club in Atlantic City this weekend for the second-annual Savor Borgata event. Wolfgang Puck worked his station for over four hours straight, serving up pad Thai, grilled shrimp, steak and scallop skewers, and Chinese chicken salad. When the Buzz asked the ...

Photos: Hernan F. Rodriguez Celeb chefs and 700 food fans gathered at The Water Club in Atlantic City this weekend for the second-annual Savor Borgata event. Wolfgang Puck worked his station for over four hours straight, serving up pad Thai, grilled shrimp, steak and scallop skewers, and Chinese chicken salad. When the Buzz asked the ...

Bao Noodles' Malanga appetizer Photo: courtesy of the restaurant While dining at Bao Noodles in Gramercy Park recently, the Buzz came across a striking dish we had never seen before, Malanga ($7.95), a crispy sesame pancake with an assortment of toppings: taro root purée with garlic and scallions, ...

Hear that? That's the sound of a squeal of joy coming from Florida. Why? Because Danny Meyer's New York institution Shake Shack has set its sights on Miami for its first operation outside of New York. Opening sometime in spring/summer 2010, the new Shack will be located in a new development at  11 11 Lincoln Road on Lenox Avenue. ...