Eater Inside: Macao Trading Co. (1)
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Click the image above to view the full photogallery. Horine, 11/24/08 Macao Trading Co. the hotly anticipated partnership between Chanterelle's David Waltuck and the team behind Employees Only, opened last night in Tribeca. If you've been to EO, you'll notice the similarities between the bar areas. The rest of the space is a bi-level 82-seat seat dining room evoking, as the materials say, a "1940's portside warehouse feel." Note, that second level is actually just ...
Plywood Update: The New Grimaldi's (1)
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Femia Financial District: It was reported late last month that famed pizza joint Grimaldi's would finally be moving to Manhattan, but it's now that we're finally getting a look at the actual space. There she is, 135 John St., a former Chinese place, and as seen above, located right around the corner from NYU's Water Street dorm (genius move). We'll be keeping a close watch over her as she attempts to open in the early ...
Eater Scenes: Freemans, 8 PM (1)
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Welcome to our new photo series, where Eater photographer Daniel Krieger visits some of the city's storied restaurants to capture them at a certain, and very specific, point in the day. For our latest installation, we visit Freemans at 8 p.m. Click the image above to view the full photogallery. Lower East Side: Favorite of LES scenesters and all manner of good looking fashionable downtowners, Freemans and its designer Taavo Somer are credited with starting ...
Gimmicks: "Village Pourhouse on the Upper West... (1)
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"Village Pourhouse on the Upper West Side has implemented a new policy. If you take a cab to visit the new spot, the Pourhouse will match your cab fare in the form of a bar tab...Direct the cabby to Amsterdam between 108th and 109th, ask for a receipt when you arrive, and the bartender will start your tab with a credit for the same amount as your fare." [TFB]
Milk Bar Mania: We were wondering how long it... (1)
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We were wondering how long it would take Easy Ed and his gang of Serious Eaters to run some food porn of the offerings at Momofuku's bakery and milk bar. The answer: 25.5 hours after they opened for friends and family. [SENY]
SPONSORED POST: Eater Inside Miami Scarpetta (1)
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This month, our friends at Fontainebleau Miami Beach are sponsoring a tour of the city's hottest real estate, restaurants, and fashions. After a massive, multi-year makeover, the iconic, 1,600+ room resort is reopening in grand style today, with a private fashion show by Victoria's Secret to follow tomorrow. With New York City's Scarpetta restaurant now legitimized and packed by a glowing three star New York Times review, chef Scott Conant is taking the show to ...
Eater Inside: Momofuku's Bakery/Milk Bar (1)
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Click the image above to view the full photogallery. Krieger, 11/12/08 East Village: Above, a look at Momofuku's Bakery & Milk Bar, set to open to the public Saturday morning at 8 a.m. Other than a still-to-come mural of FCI's Dave Arnold on that exposed brick wall and some minor stool work, the place is all finished up and is already turning out crack pie, compost cookies, and volcanos for friends and family. Check out ...
Eater Inside: Txikito (2)
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Krieger, 11/14/08 Chelsea: This little sliver of a space is Alexandra Raij's new Chelsea comeback Txikito. The one day-old space holds about 28 seats and is right around the corner from the restaurants she founded and then left, Tia Pol and El Quinto Pino. The menu here is a grouping of canapes, hot plates, and cold plates from chef (and Raij hubby) Eder Montero's native Basque region of Spain. More reading here, here, and here.
Week in Reviews: Market Table Gets the Deuce (1)
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With the recession on his brain, The Brunmeister checks in on Mikey Price and Joey Campanero's Market Table. Overall he deems it comforting, affordable, and worthy of the deuce:"If you want to know which restaurants are most likely to sail through these straits, your answer is here. And it is, indeed, something of a cliché. What makes Market Table work are precisely those attributes supposedly prized most in anxious times. What makes it special is ...
Crimewatch: Delicatessen Reports Multiple Robberies (1)
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Soho: We finally get the official explanation for all the police presence at Delicatessen yesterday. As some may have suspected from the image of a safe being dusted for fingerprints on the sidewalk, place was robbed. Twice. The official statement from the owners of Delicatessen:"Delicatessen was burglarized for the second time on Monday; the thieves entered posing as construction workers and made off with a laptop and some smaller items. As it has been noted, ...
On the Matter of the Deathwatch and Times Like These (1)
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Anecdotally and in more formal proceedings both, requests for the Deathwatch have increased 10-fold since September. Predictable this, as we haven't seen times as bad as these, if evidenced only by prime time spot checks across town, in the restaurant business in many years. Notable restaurateurs are seeing funding for new projects dry up, the most seasoned guys in town are preparing to close underperformers, and instances of vendor check bouncing are skyrocketing. Good times, ...
Hangover Observations: Boqueria Soho Opens (2)
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Last night, Seamus Mullen and Yann de Rochefort celebrated the opening of their new baby, Boqueria Soho (Spring St., former Kin Kao digs) with revelry for friends and industry type folks—and quite a few more Europeans than usually roll into these things, although dude's name is, as it turns out, Yann. The cava flowed, the Carmellini showed. And: 1) Franklin Becker was chatty per the Becker program, by his own admission having rolled in from ...
Post-Police Action, Delicatessen To Open by 1 PM (1)
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Soho: The reps at Delicatessen aren't spilling on what went down at the restaurant this morning—a reservationist told us she had no idea what we were talking about and that her manager hasn't surfaced in the last hour—but here's a little photographic evidence of the NYPD Blue presence at the Soho spot circa 10:30 a.m. The delivery entrance on the Prince Street side was cordoned off with standard issue crime scene tape, while a police ...
Great Moments in Burger: Irving Mill finds another fan of... (1)
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Irving Mill finds another fan of its burger in the Brunz: "...it’s another winner — juicier than its Resto forebear, and tucked wisely into a fluffy potato roll that’s just substantial enough not to disintegrate as the burger’s juices seep into it but not so heavy and intrusive that it muffles the burger’s thunder." Sadly, he's not totally won over by the rest: "Under its previous chef Irving Mill was somewhat inconsistent. Under Mr. Skeen ...
Underground Supper Clubs Unite, Host $125 Dinner (1)
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Not since the 1957 summit of the Cosa Nostra bosses have so many important underground figures put aside their differences to work together for a common goal. On November 14 and 15, five of the city's underground supper clubs—The Whisk & Ladle, Homeslice West, StudioFeast, The Ghetto Gourmet, and LightBulb Oven—will host 150-seat 12-course $125 dinners in an undisclosed Manhattan loft. Of course a secret password is involved (which we may give you if you ...
BruniBetting: Bobo (1)
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Kalina, 9/21/07 Tomorrow, Frank Bruni reviews Bobo, the West Village show dog that has cycled through three chefs in a year. Today, the Eater oddsmakers have set the action as follows:Zero Stars: 4-1 One Star: 3-1 √√ Two Stars: 10-1 Three Stars: 25-1 Four Stars: 25,000-1Bobo, now with kitchen run by Beard Award winner Patrick Connolly (award won at Boston restaurant, Radius), is a riveting case for the Bruni. As mentioned above, the restaurant has ...
Winter Hours Now Enforced at Mad. Sq. Park Shake Shack (1)
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Madison Square Park: Last Thursday, Keith McNally declared winter by installing his winter vestibule outside Balthazar, and now we get a second assurance of the dark, cold season that lies ahead—Shake Shack has now enacted their winter hours, closing at 9 p.m. instead of 11. We unfortunately discovered this fact on Saturday night—night one of the Shake Shack Winter—at 9:15 p.m. and were told by a manager/bouncer that there was no chance we were getting ...
Fergus Henderson's Special Momofuku Menu Unveiled (2)
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As you may or may not have heard, one of Britain's most acclaimed chefs, Fergus Henderson, is coming stateside this weekend for a now annual event FergusStock. He's making an appearance in the kitchen of the Spotted Pig on Sunday, followed by a stint at Momofuku Noodle Bar on Monday. Yesterday we revealed the special Spotted Pig menu, but the people have been clamoring for the details on Momofuku. It's only fair to let everyone ...
Fergus Henderson's Special Spotted Pig Menu Unveiled (1)
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You may recall one of Britain's most acclaimed chefs, Fergus Henderson, is coming stateside this weekend for a now annual event FergusStock. After cooking at Bette Midler's charity event on Halloween, he'll be making an appearance in the kitchen of the Spotted Pig on Sunday, followed by a stint at Momofuku Noodle Bar on Monday. It will be a veritable whirlwind of offal. And neither place is taking resys, so expect a serious wait (though ...
Dinosaur Relocating: Dinosaur BBQ is moving, but not... (2)
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Dinosaur BBQ is moving, but not far: "Columbia won city approval last year for a zoning change that will allow it to build a $6.3 billion campus...The building housing Dinosaur is one of many scheduled for demolition." The good news: the university found them a new space on 125th and 12th Ave. that is 100 sq. ft. larger. Bad news: it will cost $2 mil to renovate. If all goes to plan it will open ...
