While the Max’s Kansas City retrospective has been generating a lot of buzz, another bar from the same era but with a very different crowd is also getting the historical treatment . The Terminal Bar was one of the seediest joints in New York in the 1970′s and early 1980′s, hosting a menagerie of pimps, prostitutes, drug dealers and drunks that defined Times Square and the Port Authority area before it was cleaned up
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A Look Back: While the Max’s Kansas City retrospective…
Brothers and former “Top Chef” rivals Michael and Bryan Voltaggio team up later this month to serve a $1,000-a-head charity dinner at Bryan’s Frederick restaurant, Volt . That’s eight courses, with wine pairings, in the kitchen dining room, for a grand
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‘Top Chefs’ Michael and Bryan Voltaggio cook up $1,000-a-head dinner
[ Femia ] The owners of Five Leaves have officially signed on to the triangle bar space one block away at 1 Bedford Ave., formerly occupied by Polonia and, briefly, “Greenpoint Square.” They’ve partnered with the owner of the building to run a new restaurant in the space and are planning some heavy renovations in the coming months.
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First Word: Five Leaves Team Takes Polonia Triangle Space on Bedford
A Florida man recently brought his girlfriend to Katz’s so that he could propose to her at the table where they filmed When Harry Met Sally . Unbeknownst to him, a filmmaker happened to be shooting a documentary about the restaurant that day, and captured the whole thing on camera
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Sometimes owning a restaurant in New York is the second calling of people who struggled to make a name for themselves in Hollywood, either in front of or behind the camera. For a few restaurateurs, it’s the other way around: they get into acting and filmmaking after having already opened successful eateries.
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Second Careers : The Secret Hollywood Lives of Five NYC Restaurateurs
Team SuperDive goes on the record to announce they have reached an agreement with their landlord over their space , signing an option agreement “to sell at a very generous price provided he can find the proper alternative for the space (read: full-service restaurant)”.
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SuperDiveWire: Team SuperDive goes on the record…
Late in the afternoon on Friday, while most New Yorkers were long gone for Labor Day weekend, Diner’s Journal reported that Amanda Freitag is leaving Tribeca restaurant The Harrison and owner Jimmy Bradley is taking over in the kitchen as he re-negotiates the lease for the space. Presumably, he will succeed in his negotiations, but it’s unclear if the restaurant will live on with the same concept should he re-sign.
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Chef Shuffles: Amanda Freitag: I Put the Harrison Back on the Map
Does Jean Georges have a new celeb hot spot on his hands? Last week, a tipster spotted weird-hot couple Katy Perry and Russell Brand having dinner at ABC Kitchen . Later in the week, another tipster saw rapper/international man of mystery Kanye West begging the staff to keep the restaurant open after it had closed — the crew obliged, Kanye got his dinner.
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Celebrity Dining: Does Jean Georges have a new…
It was great having the day off Monday, but did it really have to be Labor Day already? Did the young woman who minds one of my favorite little farm stands — a truck, actually, parked outside the Catonsville library — have to mention, as I picked up peaches and a watermelon Sunday, that it was their last weekend of the season? Where did the summer go
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Top Ten summer foods I’m going to miss
The end of my investor relations diplomacy came one evening when he introduced me as “the manager” to a group of eight lawyers and told them what a wonderful job I was doing. I proceeded to look him straight in the eye – I contemplated grabbing him – and assertively explained that if he introduced me as “the manager” one more time I would let everyone know how minimal his investment was.
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Beware of the Minimal Restaurant Investor
This Week’s Stories : Frankies Spuntino West Village Location Revealed , Keith McNally Plans Pulino’s Cafe , New York’s Cursed Restaurant Spaces , Michael White Unleashes Facade of Osteria Morini , Baoguette Alum Opens Suspiciously Baoguette-Like Restaurant , The Waverly Inn Launches Brunch and Public ResyLine , Introducing the Eater Restaurant Design Quiz , and A Liveblog of the Debut of Italian Superstore Eataly .
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Week in Eater: Eataly is Unleashed, Morini’s Facade Revealed, and More!
Richard Gorelick reviews brique in today’s Sun. Richard is very impressed by the food at the new Centreville restaurant. And here’s what he had to say about the setting: “It’s just across from the pretty county courthouse, the state’s oldest in continuous use.
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Richard Gorelick reviews brique
The hurricane is fizzling out before it gets here, but we’re running for cover anyway. See you all back here bright and early on Tuesday morning. Happy eating .
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EaterWire: Snapshots From Johnny Iuzzini’s Awesome Vacation and Other Holiday Weekend Sendoffs
Click the image above to view the full photogallery. [ Krieger , 9/2/10] Tonight, Stephen Hanson will open a new location of his Atlantic Grill over in the old O’Neals space on 64th Street between Central Park West and Broadway. It may be considered part of the so called Upper West Side renaissance, as Jonathan Benno’s Lincoln is opening nearby soon and Boulud has serious expansion plans just down the block.
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Eater Inside: Now Open: Steve Hanson’s Newest, Atlantic Grill UWS
Wine judges beware: an amateur winemaker competing at the Maryland Wine Festival once entered a vino made with parsnips. For those who’d rather sip stuff from the professionals, there will be plenty to sample from Western Maryland, Southern Maryland and Eastern Shore wineries
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Parsnip wine, anyone? Amateur winemakers mingle with pros at the Maryland Wine Festival
The Kooper’s Chowhound Burger Wagon is in the running to be crowned “America’s Favorite Food Truck.” In order to win, Kooper’s does not actually have to prove that it is the best food truck in America, which it may or may not be. Kooper’s just has to convince enough people to stuff the ballot box. “We have until September 10th, 2010 to collect a maximum of votes to win a chance to represent Baltimore and Maryland in the Season 2 of the Amazing Food Truck Race!” reads the e-mail sent from Kooper’s.
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Kooper’s Chowhound Burger Wagon wants you to vote early and often
The Baltimore Ravens have a new hot dog supplier — from Philly. That’s right, Esskay is out, Dietz & Watson is in. Esskay, founded in Baltimore in 1858, has been supplying Ravens concession stands with hot dogs since the stadium opened
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Who let the dogs out? At Ravens games, Esskay is out, Dietz & Watson in
In this week’s Shallow Thought Wednesdays post, John Lindner describes an encounter with Fat Eric’s, a fine-dining take-out/delivery operation in the basement of a church on Fort Avenue. The operation strikes me as an interesting way to get in on the food industry without the huge start-up costs and serving staff needed for a sit-down restaurant. In that sense, the place has something in common with all those food trucks out there
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Strangeness in the night
Whether a hot dog cart in Manhattan or a deli in a mall in Livonia, Michigan, if you have a good location, if you have a realistic set of books, and if you are interested in accepting a realistic price for your restaurant, you probably can walk away with more than just a jingle in your pocket.
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Restaurant Sales are Sizzling this Summer
Whatever the answer to the recession dilemma, make sure to take time to think about your investment, reformulate your business plan, and analyze all of your options. Closing the door on an on going business, no matter how difficult the future may seem is a monumental decision that is harder than just leaving one night and tossing the key. Plus, it costs money.
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Restaurant Survival Mode Takes Vision and Planning