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| Chefs, Bloomberg Christen JetBlue’s Food Court of the Future |
 Mayor Michael Bloomberg made a cameo at OTG Management's soft opening for the restaurants in JetBlue's new Terminal 5 at JFK yesterday. While the general public must wail till October 1, chefs gathered to welcome the hordes of press waiting to cover something as banal as an airline terminal. Read More » |
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| Table Available at Insieme, Rosewater, Telepan; Blue Hill Nearly Booked |
 It’s 4 p.m., and that means it’s time to play Two for Eight. We just asked ten restaurants the best time they can squeeze a couple in for dinner; you need only make your chosen reservation. (As always, we make the calls but don’t guarantee the results.) Today: Haute Barnyard. Read More » |
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| Another Food Website Joins the Fray |
| Today Hearst and MSN launch Delish.com, which "features thousands of quick and easy food and cocktail recipes from Hearst Magazines and other sources, as well as fan blogs on the most popular food television shows, and..." You get the idea. Our completely cursory, front-page assessment... Read More » |
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| Quality of Butter Clientele Ruined by Butter |
 Ah, the old days of New York City nightlife: Steve Lewis's waltz down memory lane with Sherry Cosovic, who (wo)mans the door at Butter on Monday nights, contains some choice quotage. It sounds like the line to get into the joint doesn't have quite the same pop it used to, according to Cosovic... Read More » |
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| Chile Pepper Fest Will Make You Cry |
 Visit the Brooklyn Botanic Garden on Saturday for the annual Chile Pepper Fiesta. In addition to the numerous cooking demonstrations and tastings (detailed below), Pete Seeger will perform with his grandson, Tao Rodriguez Seeger, and Guy Davis, son of Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis. When you’re not absorbing superior musical DNA, you can learn to make your own hot sauce and chutney. Read More » |
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| Did Heather Mills Get a Bronx Cheer for Her Vegan Food Donation? |
 Heather Mills visited the impoverished neighborhood of Hunts Point in the South Bronx last weekend and brought its troubled residents relief in the form of $1 million worth of vegan food. Families brought their kids to a “Back to School” day with free school supplies and health screenings. The event included a barbecue, but Mills’s 1,000 meatless burgers weren’t publicized ahead of time. Read More » |
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| Morimoto Masters Wagyu Beef |
 At last weekend's New York Culinary Experience, Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto explained what makes Japanese Wagyu beef so special. Watch the video to see the chef prepare the meat for his Modern Japanese master class. Read More » |
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| Tyler Kord’s Accidental Hungarian-Korean Fusion Menu |
| A few weeks ago, former Perry St sous-chef Tyler Kord opened No. 7 in Fort Greene, his own neighborhood. But how did he come to serve dishes like kimchee perogies? In an interview with Brooklyn Based, Kord says: "I kind of just wrote the menu and cooked what I felt like, and it unintentionally veered toward Eastern Europe at one end and Asian/Korean at the other. I didn’t set out to open a Hungarian/Korean fusion restaurant — but I’m moving in that direction now." [Brooklyn Based] |
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| Trader Joe’s Second Coming in Cobble Hill |
| Trader Joe's opens its third* New York City location in Brooklyn on Friday. The store, on Atlantic Avenue and Court Street, is getting plenty of ink from the New York press, but their boosterism brings to mind the coverage of a different chain's arrival elsewhere in America. To wit... Read More » |
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| Food Suppliers Fixing Prices?; Palin Wine Sales Slow |
| • Are food suppliers colluding to manipulate prices? The Feds want to know. [WSJ] • As of next week, much of the meat and produce you buy at the supermarket will be labeled with its country of origin. Eat American! [WSJ] • Ever since John McCain picked Sarah Palin to be his V.P., at least one San Francisco wine bar has had trouble selling glasses of Palin Syrah, an organic wine from Chile. [Serious Eats] • State tax officials are cracking down on pizzerias and other small businesses in an effort to collect back sales-tax payments and shrink New York's projected $5.4 million budget deficit. [NYP] |
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| Bowery Association Network to Save Neighborhood From Everyone, Everything |
 We came home last night to find the charming flyer at right tacked to our building's front door (note: We do not live on the Bowery). And what, exactly, about the Bowery are they saving? Oh, just the usual: "residents, small businesses — the neighborhood and historic character of the Bowery." Read More » |
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| Ko No-Show Issues? |
 From a diner last night: "There were 8 empty seats. 3 different groups of people were no-shows. WTF? There were three (friendly, fun) chefs for the 4 of us there." WTF indeed. Read More » |
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| Bruni Readers to New York: Take It From Tourists, End Tipping |
 Frank Bruni riled his commenters on Diner's Journal yesterday when he called for solutions to the tourist tipping conundrum: What can a restaurant do when foreign tourists don't (or under) tip? Bruni holds back his own opinion ("I’m not going to try to convince management of anything"). But while foreign travelers aren't going away, an overwhelming number of readers wants to rid America of tipping. Confrontation, printed instructions, and included service charges also had votes. Below, some choice comments... Read More » |
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| First Look: Inside Archipelago |
 Yesterday we brought you Archipelago's menu, and today we have some photos of the space — and the food. Watch the slideshow for a preview of Hisanobu Osaka's new restaurant. Read More » |
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| Gimme Some Tongue |
| Hot new street cart El Rey del Sabor is rolling out tongue tacos starting today. If you want to get your licks in, though, go early — the cart ran out of pork, rice, and beans before 3 p.m. on Friday. [Midtown Lunch] |
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