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FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 2010 Daily New York Food News from NYMag.com & MenuPages.com
Closings Miracle Grill Went Out Owing $380,000 Dissecting the departed restaurant's corpse. Openings Niagara Opens Annex Tonight The reboot of Pizza Shop will serve oysters and burgers. Celebrity Settings Harold Ford’s New York Diet Is the potential senator exploiting the fried-chicken trend? TV Land Prepare to Meet Your Masters Gael Greene has the inside track. Foodievents Brooklyn’s Latest Cook-Off Will Be Soup-er Fun Chefs from Jimmy's No. 43, the Good Fork, Roberta's, and more will cook homemade soups. The Twitterverse Another Pulino’s Menu Clue Nate Appleman is still tinkering and tweeting. Closings Rhong-Tiam Leaves West Village; Michael Huynh Will Open Gastropub Operations have moved to Second Avenue. Foodievents Chanterelle Shows Off Three Decades of Menu Covers From Robert Mapplethorpe's to Allen Ginsberg's, they're all here. Freebies Free Beer and Milkshakes Today Schnipper's is giving away floats, too. Openings St. Marks Loses One KFC (Korean Fried Chicken), Gains Another BBQ Chicken is gone, but Kyedong is coming. Openings Artichoke Basille’s Crew Opens Roast-Beef Sandwich Shop "I cracked the code for Katz's Deli," says Francis Garcia. Reopenings Ruby’s Returns to Coney Boardwalk institutions will return for the summer. Unsolved Mysteries Is Padma Getting a Dell? Has the identity of her baby daddy been revealed? Mediavore Salinger’s Fiction Full of Food; Museums Eschew Cafeterias Plus: caffeinated jerky and LeBron James at McDonald's, all in our morning news roundup. The New York Diet Mr. Chocolate, Jacques Torres, Stashes Cocoa Nibs in Pockets, Rides a Scooter to Sushi And he finds Chinatown lobsters for $5 a pound. Food Politics Dan Barber Addresses Davos He's the only chef this year, and will discuss science and technology, agriculture, and food. Empire Building Sasha Petraske Aims to Open Jazz and Jigger Joint in Midtown The cocktail den will be 'Mad Men'–esque. Neighborhood Watch Pig Feast at Ardesia; Free Wine Classes in Cobble Hill Plus: The Beard House helps Haiti, and Holey Cream makes doughnut ice-cream sandwiches, in our regular roundup of neighborhood food news. Specials Late Night With Otto Enoteca Batali's pizzeria introduced a late-night special this week.		Shop-A-Matic »    Agenda »    Best Bets »    Fashion Alert »    See all newsletters »     Subscribe to New York