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| Tables Available at 15 East; Kittichai and Nobu Mostly Booked |
 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 Asian. Read More » |
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| Di Fara Hopes to Reopen Next Week |
 The reopening of Di Fara has been pushed back a smidge, per the pizza mecca’s latest outgoing message... Read More » |
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| Give Your Baby Fetal Alcohol Syndrome at Le Lupanar! |
 This flyer advertising cheap grub, beer, and “booty shakin’, baby makin’ jams” a couple of nights ago at Le Lupanar (the Lower East Side joint whose name means “brothel”) might not be the most tasteful. Click through for full view. Read More » |
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| Vegetarians Better at Sex, Really? |
 Beyond the overenthusiastic veggie love and flagrant sexism in the banned PETA Super Bowl ad, we were also dubious of the notion that vegetarians have better sex. Slate allays our fears with facts... Read More » |
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| How to Knock $100 Off Your Le Cirque Meal, Via Craigslist |
| Recession specials aren’t the only way to save at local restaurants — cruise Craigslist and you’ll find gift cards for sale at deep discounts. Check out the current offerings. Read More » |
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| Isabella’s Oven Owner Accuses Board Members of Anti-Italian Sentiment |
 Teresa Rizzo-Marino has 24 hours to vacate her baby, Isabella’s Oven, and she’s not happy about it. She tells us that she was unfairly ousted by the Seward Park Housing Corporation’s board, which claims she owes $70,000, or about a year of back rent. Read More » |
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| Super Bowl Planner: Drink Specials to Special Sandwiches |
 The Super Bowl as secular holiday long ago surpassed the actual game in terms of cultural relevance. So where will you be on this sacred Sunday? If you haven't found the right spot to watch, eat, and drink, you just don't know where to look. Our Amos Barshad scoured New York for game-day deals, ranging from the rare Cardinals-centric bar to multitasking at Leisure Time Bowl. Read More » |
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| Dessert and BBQ Island Trucks Reemerge |
 The Dessert Truck is back, but according to Midtown Lunch, “They will no long[en] be in the same space every day. According to their website they ‘have new locations and hours’ which will get posted to the site when they park wherever it is they are going to be.” The truck’s current hours of operation have it in midtown during weekday afternoons, in the East Village during weekday nights, and on the Lower East Side on Saturday nights. Read More » |
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| Spanish Enfant Terrible Jesús Nuñez Hopes to Bring Shark Carpaccio to New York |
 In addition to the Spanish chefs visiting Mercat, one of Madrid’s forward thinkers, Jesús Nuñez of Polenta and Flou, is hoping to make a permanent residence here. Nuñez is known for his playful “interactive dishes” (think liquid nitrogen) and for combining the principles of molecular gastronomy and modern art (he’s a former graffiti artist) in preparing, among other things, exotic meats (his menu at Polenta includes shark and deer carpaccio). Read More » |
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| Four Seasons Bartender Paints Customers; Someone in Red Hook Misses Real World |
• A bartender at The Four Seasons doubles as a portrait artist who sells his paintings for up to $14,000. [NYT] • The owner of Red Hook's F&M Bagels misses the cast of The Real World: Brooklyn, who spent lots of money at at his store. [NYO] • Manhattanites can now order their Subway foot-longs via text message. Life is so much easier now. [IntoMobile via Consumerist] • The Tuscan town of Lucca has banned all new non-Italian restaurants within the city center, ostensibly to protect traditional cuisine, but possibly as a form of "culinary racism." [AP] |
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| Café Select’s Back Room Opens Its Sidewalk Doors to the Public |
 So, Café Select’s back room — formerly accessible only to the select few via the kitchen — now has a sexy separate entry via a sidewalk grate and a long utility tunnel. It’s open on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, and after one night in business, we’ve already heard a Beatrice regular refer to it as “the new Beatrice.” We’ll resist that comparison... Read More » |
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| Ted Allen Samples Italian at Terminal 5 in JFK, Frequents Senegalese in BK |
 Ted Allen debuted as a bespectacled wine and food expert on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy in 2003, after developing his palate as an editor at Chicago magazine. He now has two shows on the Food Network: Food Detectives and Chopped, a Top Chef–Iron Chef hybrid. Though Chopped has been criticized for being too soft on contestants, Allen disagrees. “I have very little interest in being sarcastic or flippant about another artist’s work,” he told us. Read More » |
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| Top Chef Exit Interview: Episode Ten |
| Leave it to Top Chef to throw a Quickfire featuring sponsored product Quaker Oats into the same episode as a Super Bowl–themed competition with a handful of has-beens from the show's earlier seasons. Tasked with creating a regional dish in twenty minutes, season five's cheftestants came out on top against their predecessors, but not without some major losses, leaving Fabio, Jeff, and Stefan on the chopping block. In the end, Fabio's overcooked venison was overlooked in the interest of keeping the show's European duo intact. That meant that Jeff McInnis, he of the golden hair and busy plates, was sent to pack his knives. We spoke to him on the phone this afternoon, and he told us about Josie's slimy seviche and life after the show. Read More » |
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| Should You Propose (Marriage or Divorce) at a Restaurant? |
 We’ve heard similar stories in our Ask a Waiter column, but this Gourmet piece about Valentine’s dining-room drama is still pretty juicy. Read More » |
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| Can’t Stand Kids? Don’t Eat Here! |
 After debating tableside breastfeeding, the “Breeder vs. Baller” column at Fucked in Park Slope now addresses that old chestnut — kids in Park Slope restaurants. Funny enough, it’s the mom who lays down the expletive-ridden rant, about the childless couple next to her. Read More » |
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| American Wine Consumption Up, But Not Enough |
 A recent study by London’s International Wine & Spirit Record (IWSR) boasts that from 2003 to 2007, Americans upped their individual wine consumption to 12.1 liters from 11.1 liters, meaning we now drink about three gallons a year. Based on six-ounce servings, that's 68 glasses annually. If trends continue upward, we are expected to increase our intake by one liter every five years. Read More » |
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| Andrew Carmellini Will Helm Second Go at Ago |
 Holy mother! Forget about Andrew Carmellini doing a quiet little spot in Nolita or a quiet little spot anywhere else. The partners at the Greenwich Hotel, who of course include Robert De Niro, have tapped him as chef at the future incarnation of Ago, according to Diner’s Journal. And that isn’t all... Read More » |
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