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EaterWire: Aldea Holds Pastry Chef Dinner; Donatella’s Renderings

admin — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 02:45:24 +0000

REBIRTHS — Chef Heather Carlucci-Rodriguez of Print restaurant reveals that she may reopen closed Indian restaurant Lassi if negotiations go well. [The Feast] CHELSEA — The Feed publishes renderings of Donatella the new restaurant and pizza place from Donatella Arpaia. [The Feed] TOP CHEFFAGE — Here’s the first preview clip of Top Chef: Just Desserts , and the contestants are surprisingly grouchy and mean! Hit the link to travel to “a land of asshole pastry chefs,” where butter gets stolen out of spite (sabotage!), people call each other names, and you can, as one of the contestants says, “all just suck it.” [-EN-] EAST VILLAGE — Fork in the Road reports that Bedlam Bar and Lounge is opening in the space last occupied by 40C and before that by Batista.

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Video Interlude: Alan Richman pops into the…

admin — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 02:04:39 +0000

Alan Richman pops into the kitchen at Lincoln to chat with chef Jonathan Benno about the new restaurant. Benno demos two Italian classics from the menu, eggplant parmesan and spaghetti pomodoro, and in keeping with the original description of ” Per Se meets Carmine’s ” the food looks rustic, but the prep and technique involved are, of course, incredibly precise.

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21 Questions: David Chang gets the 21 Questions…

admin — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:09:25 +0000

David Chang gets the 21 Questions treatment in Daily Intel today , and we learn that he had his best meal in New York at 71 Clinton Fresh Foods, he never gives money to panhandlers, he almost never prepares his own meals, and when he needs to get away, he goes to Wyoming. [Daily Intel]

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Nightlife: Lavo Goes Large With Opening Invitation, Darby Soft Opens

admin — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:27:36 +0000

Most of the invitations for Fashion Week events come via email , but some of the more important ones still send something out via the mail. Since Lavo is celebrating both Fashion Week and its grand opening next week, they decided to take things just a wee bit further by sending out the invite on an engraved marble tile for the opening night blow out next Tuesday night.

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Today in Letter Grades: Instead of appealing their "B"…

admin — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 23:28:06 +0000

Instead of appealing their “B” grade from the DOH and putting up a “Grade Pending” sign, Veselka in the East Village is rolling with the big B in the window, and apparently customers don’t seem to mind. Naturally, the restaurant hopes to ace future inspections, but as one of the managers told the WSJ “When you walk in, you can look around and see if it is clean enough or not clean enough. Our customers are walking in and seeing that it is clean.” [WSJ]

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Assessing the Competition: Shake Shack’s New Family Meal? McDonald’s

admin — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 22:57:16 +0000

In what looks like a real life version of that Coke Zero/Pepsi Max commercial , a group of Shake Shack employees seemed to be sampling McDonald’s during family meal today. Is it just one worker’s favorite? Are they doing taste tests, analyzing the packaging?

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Fall Tracking: The Feast takes a hard hat…

admin — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 22:30:41 +0000

The Feast takes a hard hat tour of The John Dory Oyster bar, the redo of the closed Chelsea restaurant that is scheduled to open in the Ace Hotel next month : ” Every seat here will be a bar stool , for example; two whole walls will be glass, looking onto the street. Though some of the original Dory’s props will resurface here (not the massive fish tank), wood, tile, and a hundred-year-old marble mosaic tile floor dominate the design.” [The Feast]

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Bills, Bills, Bills: The impossible to get into restaurant…

admin — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 22:00:21 +0000

The impossible to get into restaurant of mid-2010, The Lion , now has a website that’s also impossible to get into . Because the domain name expired. Perhaps John DeLucie should spend less time hotboxing pork chops , and more time sitting down and paying those bills.

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Plywood Special: Plywood Finally Unpeeled on Jeffrey’s, Gabe Stulman’s Newest

admin — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 21:30:54 +0000

Just this very morning, the plywood finally came down at Jeffrey’s , the new grocery, wine bar, oyster bar, and restaurant from Joseph Leonard’s Gabe Stulman . Stulman is scheduled to open the place this fall—looks like sooner rather than later—just before he debuts his revamp of the old Fedora space on West 4th Street. Giddyup.

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