Bobby Flay | The New York Observer

No Reservations! Famous Foodies Sample Celeb Chef Fare

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:30:09 -0400

Star chefs—and the hungry folks who love ’em—turned out for the Chefs for Scher event at the Bowery Terrace on Monday, July 13. The grub-centric event, a benefit for the Steven Scher Memorial Scholarship for Aspiring Restaurateurs, was punctuated with fond memories of Mr. Scher, a co-founder of Main Street Restaurant Partners and influential figure in the New York dining world.

The chefs in attendance—including Rocco DiSpirito, Nancy Olson of Gramercy Tavern, BarBao’s Michael...

Monarch of Momofuku Hires Pricey Carriage for Foodie Oscars

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:11:10 -0400

“It’s very surreal,” said David Chang, the hugely hyped hotshot at the helm of Manhattan’s three Momofuku restaurants, about taking top honors as the city’s best chef at the James Beard Foundation Awards at Avery Fisher Hall on Sunday, June 8. (The ceremony was hosted by Sex and the City’s Kim Cattrall, who “flirted” awkwardly onstage with Mesa Grill’s Bobby Flay and refused interviews.)

Mr. Chang had just...

C'est un Bar Americain! Bobby Flay's Latest Creation

Sun, 05 Jun 2005 20:00:00 -0400

In Paris, "Bar Americain" means a place that serves liquor as well as wine and beer. So the first thing that catches your eye when you walk into celebrity chef Bobby Flay's new restaurant is the enormous zinc bar, smack in the center of the 200-seat dining room. The cocktails here, developed by partner Laurence Kretchmer, aren't those gimmicky concoctions created for clubgoers raised on sticky sodas; they're designed for grown-ups. (John O'Hara or...

Nobu Goes North, Joe Moves East, Bouley Bakery Comes to Tribeca

Sun, 06 Mar 2005 19:00:00 -0500

When the restaurant economy is good-and it's very good indeed-culinary maternity wards overflow with the wistful, the risk-takers and, as always, the inept. This spring's crop of new restaurants reflects these flush times in scope, number and variety. More than ever, it seems that successful restaurants are spinning off carbon copies of themselves, while others are taking up in fancy digs that just two or three years ago would have been considered outlandish.

Blue-chip gastro-entrepreneurs...

Late Show Bans Lawyers in Theater-Says Attorneys Make Bad Audiences

Sun, 25 Jun 2000 20:00:00 -0400

Has David Letterman killed all the lawyers?

Like Knicks seats and tables at Le Cirque, tickets to the Late Show with David Letterman have been a choice perk for select New York City law firms for a number of years. Firms secured blocks of seats from the Letterman staff and divvied them up among summer associates and assorted friends, and the happy suits trooped down to the frigid Ed Sullivan Theater, loosened their ties and...

Craig Kilborn's Replacement? … Grilling Bobby Flay … Naomi Unzipped; Malcolm-Jamal on Magic

Sun, 19 Jul 1998 20:00:00 -0400

Wednesday, July 15

Every week, a hidden camera in a second-floor window on a beautiful-people street in SoHo tapes women walking by for a cable-access show called Knit Bootie . It's compelling television. Somebody splices together the most attractive specimens, creating narrative from nothing. It's the purest form of TV; the creator simply brings outside inside, hangs a frame on it and turns one story into two: You watch to look at the people,...