Ah, street fair season. A time when every weekend, whole avenues are taken over by vendors selling mozzarepas, tube socks, CDs, smoothies, and bad jewelry.
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Take it to the Streets: Terroir Calls for War Against Generic Ubiquitous Street Fairs
Fork in the Road notes that sometimes Sam Sifton’s prose crosses the line from the mere poetic to reading like actual spoken word poetry. They combine his most dramatic outbursts into one metaphor and simile-ridden piece that begins, “Saturday night in the neighborhood that once gave America fever .” [FitR]
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Siftonisms: Fork in the Road notes that…
Basketball star LeBron James has yet to decide where he’ll play next season, much to the consternation of fans in his home in Cleveland and here in New York. In a huge New York spread last month, restaurateur Jean-Georges Vongerichten offered James “Free dinners as long as he wants. I’ll feed him whatever he likes—double chickens” should he come to the Knicks.
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PR Campaigns: Mario Batali Jumps on the LeBron Lovin’ Bandwagon
A new “Top Chef” season begins Wednesday night with Baltimore chef Timothy Dean among the contestants, and I have the inside scoop on the first episode, courtesy of a rough cut that Bravo distributed to the media. I’m sworn to secrecy when in comes to who’s eliminated in the first show, but I can tell you this much: alpha males dominate, a statement that should require no spoiler alert given the outsized personalities of chefs in general, and aspiring TV chefs in particular. One of the contestants flatly states that he wants his competitors to size him up and conclude, “This guy is truly the alpha male.” As I write in a profile of Dean that appears in Wednesday’s Sun , the Prime Steakhouse owner does not come off as having the biggest ego of the bunch
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Timothy Dean makes his ‘Top Chef’ debut
SEATTLE — Terrance Brennan shuttered his two Seattle restaurants Artisanal Brasserie & Wine Bar and Artisanal Table just seven months after their openings. [ST] NOHO —The Real Deal reports that an organic Asian themed restaurant will be coming soon to 55 Bond Street.
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EaterWire: Brennan Closes in Seattle; Hand Pulled Noodles for Bond St.
There was quite a to-do this afternoon when the folks behind Village hotspot The Lion —which resides in and capitalizes upon a very historic 1839 space—appeared before the Landmarks Preservation Committee . Here’s why: Last November, the LPC approved some changes to the building at 62 West 9th Street. But they never approved the faux ivy that now covers the facade nor did they okay the plywood planter box above the awning which holds small lights, is a planter for real ivy, and holds up the awning
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Fakers: Landmarks Committee Not Pleased with the Lion’s Fake Ivy
Things aren’t looking good for the endangered Fairway Cafe . The closure isn’t written in stone, CEO Howard Glickberg says, but, “For every person I have in the cafe, I’ve got 100 customers who are shopping in the rest of the store, and we’ve got to take care of those 100 customers also.” [NYT; previously ]
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Fairway Cafe Update: Things aren’t looking good for the…
A Hamburger Today goes into anonymous burger world newcomer, Select Burger on 1st Ave. expecting very little. But it’s not half bad! “Combined with the wonderful bun, it provides an unexpectedly pleasing and synergistic burger experience…Is it the best burger I have ever had?
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Unexpected Wins: A Hamburger Today goes into anonymous…
Just two weeks after the Times pointed the spotlight on the Greenpoint Food Market , a kind of weekly DIY bazaar for homemade goodies in a church in Brooklyn, the Dept. of Health told the organizer , Joann Kim, that they would be enforcing food handling rules.
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DOH Chronicles: Killjoy Dept. of Heath Ends the DIY Food Party in Greenpoint
Nightclub owner Gary Malhotra is suing interior designer and blogger Steve Lewis and his employer Blackbook for libel. The fun all started when Malhotra was sued by a former Quo waitress of mistaking her body for a mirrored coffee table
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Nightlife: Nightclub Owner Sues Blogger Steve Lewis For Libel
Welcome to First Word, wherein Eater and its correspondents sit for hours at steamy community board meetings to bring back the first word of new establishments and what they’re up to. Your reports from the field always encouraged to tips@eater.com . There are few things as pleasant as community board meetings.
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First Word: CB3 Drops Hammer on Ave. A Fishmonger, Greenlights SRO
I have what I consider to be a perfectly rational fear of industrial beef, one that anyone who’s seen ” Food Inc .” or read ” The Omnivore’s Dilemma ” should understand. Which makes this, the season of potluck cook-outs, a little awkward
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Top Ten excuses for bringing your own beef to the neighborhood cook-out
NOLITA — Later this week, a Stateside branch of the Portuguese mini chain The Best Chocolate Cake in the World will open in Nolita. It’s a bold claim, but reps promise that this cake is truly something else. More coverage to come.
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EaterWire: Best Cake in the World to Hit Nolita; Jimmy Dean Dies
Welcome back to Haus Call , where Eater periodically checks in with BaoHaus and Xiao Ye chef/owner Eddie Huang to see what he’s up to these days. The final pieces in the Xiao Ye puzzle are coming together: last week Eddie Huang tested some new recipes on a trio of food bloggers, dropped the final menu on his blog (complete with bonkers entree names and artwork), and finalized that ever-crucial iPod playlist . Huang plans on opening up his new LES Taiwanese joint as early as five days after they secure a temporary liquor license, and told us today that he’s attending a CB3 meeting tonight
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Haus Call : Xiao Ye’s Eddie Huang Talks Drinks Menu, Cost Cutting, Hip-Hop Supergroups
Amazingly enough, just half a year after a Babbo manager lost his leg in a freak accident with a sanitation truck, Jose Mendoza, a delivery man for sister restaurant Otto , fell off of a subway platform and lost both of his legs to an oncoming train. Thus, owners Joe Bastianich and Mario Batali are once again hosting a benefit for their wounded worker. On June 21, they’ll host a party with snacks and drinks from 9 PM – 12 AM.
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Tragedies: Amazingly enough, just half a year…
1) The West Village : Grub Street notices that the former spot of a newsstand and later Kudo Beans on West 4th Street is now a gyro spot. The best part: it has an awesome backyard
After last week’s 7 Worst Outdoor Drinking Spots in New York counted all of the babies at Radegast beer hall as a negative, an Eater commenter got riled up. And then he produced the following helpful list, dividing up the Williamsburg neighborhood , which is quickly filling up with new parents. The first half of the list is where the childless partiers are allowed to hang
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Growing Pains: Dividing the Burg’s Restaurants Among Hipsters and Breeders
Just got off the phone with George Marsh, chef de cuisine at Woodberry Kitchen , who was good enough to fill me in on that goat dinner I blogged about earlier today. “We basically do the whole goat, roasted — slow-roasted ahead of time,” Marsh said. The meat, raised on Washington County pasture with no added hormones or routine antibiotics, is simply prepared, with salt, pepper and fresh herbs.
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Get your goat
Just got some interesting news about a special goat dinner at Woodberry Kitchen. It came to me by way of Jeanne Dietz-Band, who raises goat on Washington County’s Many Rocks Farm and started selling the meat this year at the Sunday Farmers’ Market under the JFX.
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Goat dinner at Woodberry
“We don’t have a full convention schedule in the summer so business slows down a bit,” McClair said. “And we are certainly hoping they solve this problem before the season arrives.
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Oil Spill Prompts Restaurant Owners to Watch and Wait for Fish Supply to Diminish