What Anne Burrell Will Do Next | Whisk & Ladle Supper Club Outed by Food Network

	September 29, 2008
Two for Eight Tables Available at Falai and Jean Georges; Adour Alain and Per Se Mostly 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: Certified Geniuses. Read More » Slideshow A First Look at Pinche Taqueria's New Location Pinche Taqueria’s second location is up and running (till 4 a.m. from Wednesday through Saturday!), though owner Jeffrey Chartier is still waiting on that liquor license that’ll allow him to serve margaritas. Meantime, the menu is the same as the Soho location’s with the addition of desserts and Dallis Coffee, and is available via delivery at 212-343-9977. Read More » Celebrity Chefs What Anne Burrell Will Do Next (in TV Land, Anyway) With Anne Burrell out at Centro Vinoteca, the only place you're going to see her cooking is on TV. And (ding! ding!) the Food Network has just sent us the schedule for the upcoming season of Secrets of a Restaurant Chef, which will run at the ungodly hour of 10:30 a.m. on Saturdays starting October 11. For better or worse, no show about the secrets of "big-girl soda." Read More » Competitive Eating Joey Chestnut Wins Krystal’s Burger-Eating Contest After settling for silver in a beer-chugging contest, Joey "Jaws" Chestnut is No. 1 in our hearts again after downing 93 burgers at the Krystal Square Off V. Chestnut was ten burgers short of his record-setting eat last year, but there are only so many burgers you can consume in eight minutes. Read More » The Box The Box Responds to Allegations; Gawker Backtracks on Calling it a ‘Slum’ Run by ‘Slime’ After initially staying mum, the owners of the Box, perhaps realizing some good press is in order now that their liquor license is hanging in the balance, finally defended themselves against accusations of “inhumane treatment” launched by the Porcelain TwinZ on their MySpace Page and then on BlackBook magazine’s Website. Partner Randy Weiner tells the Times that the show might be sexy and transgressive, but rumors of everything from sexual harassment to in-house prostitution are false: “That’s not the way we run our business.” Read More » Openings First Look: Inside Walter Foods Walter Foods in Williamsburg opens officially tomorrow, and we've got some advance photos. The green leather banquettes, dark bar, and exposed beams are well suited to Danny Minch's classic cocktail menu, but are the heavy tones more "midtown manly" than "Williamsburg casual"? View the slideshow and judge for yourself. Starbucks Take This Java and Shove It Ad agency Wieden & Kennedy is quitting the Starbucks account, apparently owing to the brand’s micromanagement and its tendency, perhaps because of an apparent distrust of ad agencies, to be in bed with more than one of them at once. [Ad Age via Gawker] Vomit Meatpuking District Maybe Jermaine Dupri should’ve stuck with Cristal? Apparently he had a little too much of Jay-Z’s Ace of Spades Champagne while celebrating his birthday at Tenjune and ended up ralphing in Janet Jackson’s lap. Gross. [NYP] Bad Things A Wild Weekend of Shootings, Stabbings, and … Poisoning? It's been a rough few days for the food and beverage industry. On Saturday, a Chinese deliveryman was shot in the head in the Bronx, seemingly over an order of pork fried rice. He’ll likely survive. Later that night, a 50-man (and -woman) brawl outside of a Steinway Street reggaeton club, Tahona, left five folks hospitalized. There were also... Read More » Mediavore Bouley Laughs in Face of Financial Crisis; a Greenmarket Will Grow in Bay Ridge • Having had one expansion plan ruined in the wake of 9/11, David Bouley insists that he will make his current plan work: "I'm going to get it done if it kills me." [WSJ] Related: David Bouley, Culinary Cartographer [en] • After a couple of failed attempts in the past, Bay Ridge will get a new Greenmarket that hopes to succeed with residents clamoring for produce in the grocery-starved neighborhood. [Brooklyn Paper] • Jacques Pépin is one of the few chefs on TV still teaching the fundamental skills – not just the fancy tricks – of cooking. [Men's Vogue] • Food companies are pushing their products as an economic value: Soup and sandwiches for everyone! [WSJ] Openings Colicchio Opens Two New ’Wichcrafts: Small Potatoes? Members of the Tom Tom Club: Here's something to whet your appetite ahead of Colicchio’s still-mysterious announcement tomorrow morning. The 34th Street Partnership has sent us a press release trumpeting new 'wichcraft locations (the chain’s eleventh and twelfth) in Herald and Greeley Square Parks. Read More » Chef Shuffle Fresh Is Sold, and Michael Ferraro Is Out Like a Trout Not a couple of weeks ago, the folks at Fresh, the Tribeca seafood joint whose owner, Eric Tevrow, pleaded guilty to evading over $1 million in taxes last year, were beaming about their new chef, Michael Ferraro. Maybe we should’ve found that a little bit … fishy. Read More » Top Secret Whisk & Ladle Supper Club Outed by Food Network The granddaddy of them all, the Whisk & Ladle, has lately been overshadowed by other Brooklyn supper clubs: Jack, an occasional restaurant in the Brooklyn Lyceum; the Ted Allen and Amy Sedaris Supper Club (not officially endorsed by either celeb, although Ted apparently gave it passing approval); and A Razor, A Shiny Knife, to name a few. But the last e-mail we got from the group had some piquant news. Read More » In the Magazine Forty Years of New York Food New York celebrates its 40th anniversary this week, and you can't look back that far without having something to eat. Rob and Robin paired Lutèce veteran André Soltner in conversation with current "It" Chef David Chang. The pair discussed the difficulties of running a restaurant in today's New York, the rise of American cuisine, and increasing sophistication of city diners. Read More » Culinary Death Matches French Laundry Chef Will Compete at Bocuse d’Or Chef Timothy Hollingsworth of The French Laundry will represent the United States at the Bocuse d'Or in January 2009. Hollingsworth and his commis, Adina Guest, bested seven other pairs at the U.S. semifinals at Epcot Center last weekend. Hollingsworth prepared Atlantic cod with Hawaiian blue prawns and sea scallops, served with artichoke gratin, tomato tart, and Barigoule bread pudding. Read More »