Though the plywood shed around Keith McNally’s new pizza shop Pulino’s is characteristically impenetrable, there is one new development on the place today coming from NBC New York (and the folks behind their soon to launch site Feast). The Floorplans .
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Reveals: Semi-Circle Bar, Open Pizza Station to Grace McNally’s Pulino’s
The Oscar nominations have been ceremoniously released , and Julia & Julia , the little food blog-to-book-to-movie that could, continues to cut a swath through the awards landscape, with Meryl Streep ’s portrayal of Julia Child earning a nod in the Best Actress category. Meanwhile, Food, Inc. was nominated for Best Documentary
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Food on Film: The Oscar nominations have been ceremoniously…
The real estate nerds over at Curbed have a new listing for a multi-family, mixed-use building at 51 Kent Ave. in Williamsburg for $1.84 million. Why we care: ” It houses the last intact pre-prohibition bar in north Brooklyn , crafted by German cabinet makers of Cuban mahogany.” [Curbed]
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The $1.84 Million Bar: The real estate nerds over at…
The Village Voice’s Robert Sietsema pens an in depth piece for the Columbia Journalism Review about the history of restaurant reviewing in New York . An excellent cultural piece, it charts the waters from Craig Claiborne’s seminal reviews for the Times in the 60’s to the food bloggers and the free for all of today.
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To Catch a Critic: Sietsema on the History of Restaurant Reviewing and Ethics
It seems like the whole TV-watching population is all amped up for tonight’s premiere of the final season of Lost , and East Village bar Professor Thom’s is no exception. For those who don’t know what those numbers mean (to be fair, no one really knows) get some background info here . Sad Update! : EV Grieve notices this on the bar’s website: “Unfortunately, we will not be able to sell alcohol at the event due to Community Board relations but the party will still go on and the food and soda will be flowing.”
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Lost Mania: Professor Thom’s Geared up for Lost Premiere
From the tipline: “I live right by East Side Company Bar and read about its future replacement Painkiller , but hadn’t noticed any signs of change until last Thursday night when they put a new sign on the door announcing ‘renovations.’” Indeed, a walk by yesterday afternoon revealed the above scene.
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Plywood: Spying the First Signs of Progress at LES Tiki Bar Painkiller
A year after he pulled out of his hotel restaurant The Libertine and two months after announcing a partnership with the Plaza Hotel to build a food court, new details emerge about celeb chef Todd English’s latest hotel project. As he mentioned last month, English is teaming up with the new InterContinenal Hotel in Times Square to create a French brasserie.
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Overbooked: More on Todd English’s Latest, but not Last, Hotel Project
dr numbers asked a question under the earlier entry on Restaurant Week that I thought was well worth addressing in a separate post. I’ll give you my thoughts off the top of my head, but I hope you’ll weigh in as well: Just for the record, I wanna know what is an “acceptable” price reduction for restaurant week.
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Do you think Restaurant Week is still a bargain?
Participating in New York’s bi-annual Restaurant Week is always a crapshoot. Some restaurants perform a total botch job, shuttling diners through three courses of chicken and salmon as quickly as humanly possible while others put in a real effort, offering their best service and menus to tempt new clientele to return
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Good News/Bad News: The Winners and Losers of Restaurant Week 2010
Yesterday, The Wall Street Journal ran a fairly standard piece on how star chefs have been making the leap to the cocktail circuit lately and in the process, revolutionizing the mixed drink. However, the most intriguing parts of the article are the details of Grant Achatz’s new project: a bar . Boom
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Game Changers: Grant Achatz Opening A Molecular Bar in Chicago
GRAMERCY — Friend of a Farmer on Irving Place will be closed for at least a day while they redo their floors. [EaterWire] MIDTOWN — Midtown Lunch spots protesters outside of Mapo Tofu , a Midtown restaurant that took over the space of the shuttered Wu Liang Ye. That restaurant was accused of labor violations but the owners say this new operation is not connected
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EaterWire: Firefighters Storm Bond St; Renos at Friend of a Farmer
This Wednesday, Our Hero Guy Fieri will be making a sepcial guest appearence on The Price is Right . Guy filmed the bit last week, and while we don’t know if Drew Carey let him participate in a round of Plinko, the game show apperance is totally in fitting with his current career trajectory . [FOGF via Eater National ]
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FieriWire: This Wednesday, Our Hero Guy Fieri…
Following Mayor Bloomberg’s initiative to get food producers, fast food companies, and restaurants to voluntarily reduce salt levels in food by 25 percent, the Times tests dishes from Momo Milk, The Standard Grill, Shake Shack, and others to see what damage they do in the sodium chloride department . The heaviest hitters: a large Manhattan clam chowder from the Grand Central Oyster Bar clocking in with 3,100 milligrams and Katz’s corned beef sandwich with 3,100. 2,400 is the daily recommended intake.
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Heart Attack Sandwiches: Following Mayor Bloomberg’s initiative to get…
61 percent of reporter Glenn Collins’ stories of the last year have been about Tavern on the Green . His last 12 published stories: 1) At Tavern on the Green, Everything Must (and Does) Go; 1/29/10 2) A Bargain Lunch, and Dancing Bears, Too; 1/25/10 (Russian Tea Room) 3) Tavern on the Green’s Last Sale, for Now; 1/20/10 4) Tavern Is in a Deeper Hole Than Was Thought; 1/19/10 5) The Gavel Falls on Tavern on the Green ; 1/15/10 6) Tavern on the Green Sells Out; 1/13/10 7) Judge to the LeRoys: It’s All Yours, Almost; 1/13/10 
Who Owns What at Tavern on the Green? ; 1/11/10 9) All the News That’s Fit…, 1/7/10 (This story is not about TotG) 10) City Is Denied a Trademark on a Backup Name for Tavern; 1/5/10 11) Ringing Out Tavern on the Green; 1/1/10 12) A Treasure Trove of Trinkets; 12/18/09 Not that TotG doesn’t deserve its own dedicated correspondent or anything, but there are a lot more where those came from.
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Time for a New Beat?: A Look at Tavern on the Green Reportage at the Times
Meet Ben Sargent, the man behind The Underground Lobster Pound. Basically, he makes and sells perfect looking New England style lobster rolls out of his Greenpoint apartment for those who have his info and are willing to go pick it up from his mail slot. Click through to see him in action
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Video Interludes: Meet Ben Sargent, the man behind…
Last October, rumors began to fly that Amy Sacco’s Bungalow 8 had decided to call it a day. Ms. Sacco vehemently denied the rumors , telling Eater at the time, “I am redoing the entire space to give it a facelift, that’s really all
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Nightlife: Bungalow 8 Renovation Delays Impact Its Re-opening
Today the Times ‘ Bits blog announces that Bravo will be teaming up with Foursquare to incorporate Bravo shows into the gaming element of the social networking site. This means that Top Chef fans can now take their fandom to the next level by going to locations that tie-in to the show—Whole Foods, Craft, etc.—to unlock special TC badges.
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Paging TC Fanatics: Today the Times’ Bits blog announces…
The current facade of Michael White’s newest The Community Board 2 SLA Licensing meeting agenda is up and it’s going to be a fun one. Two heavy hitters Shake Shack Nolita and Michael White’s new space on 218 Lafayette will make their pleas, as will the operator of the old Elettaria space (to be called Salatim), the old Harbour space (to be called Parlor Club ), and the old Merkato 55 space (now Villa Pacri ).
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First Word: Michael White, Shake Shack to Appear Before Community
Lost City checks in on Gino , the 64 year-old Upper East Side restaurant long in danger of closing because of depleted business and a tiff with the workers union. Workers at the restaurant reported over the weekend that they aren’t planning on closing at the moment, that ” we’re still talking, but it looks good .” [LC]
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Gino Now Safe?: Lost City checks in on Gino,…
One morning I woke up at 4 and didn’t have anything better to do, so I got down one of my Julia Child cookbooks and made boeuf bourguignon . We had it for dinner that night and it was fabulous, so we had the leftovers the next night and it was even more fabulous
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Monday Morning Quarterbacking: Linwoods