THE TWO MEN The New York Times anointed the "darlings of the New York culinary set" and the "future of Italian food in America," Mario Carbone, 32 and Rich Torrisi, 31—along with their business partner, Jeff Zalaznick, 29—do not flatter easily.
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As if there was not enough anticipation surrounding the construction of Hudson Yards, here is probably the one reason to trump any other: Danny Meyer will be setting up shop on the Far West Side.
The Related Companies and Union Square Hospitality announced a new partnership today, whereby Steve Ross and his globetrotting development company will take a stake in Union Square Events. While not encompassing all of the restauranteurs operations, USE offers more than just catering but also runs the sports venue operations for Mr. Meyers sprawling eatery empire, and now it will do even more. So no fine dining, necessarily, but Mr. Meyer will be offering a range of culinary options, from private residential dining to catering events in Hudson Yards buildings as well as operating restaurants and outdoor cafes. Read More
This week's New York Magazine is a series of "Workplace Confidential" essays, which include a former Lehman Brothers banker who thinks "nobody is making that much money" on Wall Street, a Page Six reporter shilling for News Corp on the DL, a firefighter who thinks anyone with post-traumatic stress disorder should "fucking get over it," a Hollywood agent who explains that "the abject lying is crazy" in his business, and other testimonials from people saying things we already knew they thought. Read More
Do you have too much stuff already? Do you want a holiday that's a delicious culinary experience rather than a hazardous mountain of consumer electronics? Do you want to go home to the Midwest and prove to your family that you've developed an addiction to brine so severe you can never go home again? Here is a guide to the best comestible gifts in New York City: instead of a bunch of crap to put in a drawer, give mom a whitefish. Read More
A sign on Orchard and Grand has officially put on notice all those weird below Houston-streeters: Stop tying bones and meat around town for stray dogs/crazy satanic rituals/art installations.
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The smoke has cleared, and in the wake of Sam Sifton's departure from his relatively short tenure as the New York Times dining critic, according to Politico's Dylan Byers, dining editor Pete Wells has been named as his replacement. In the wake of his departure from the dining editor position, Susan Edgerley—a former assistant managing editor, recently moved to a position as the a special assistant to the executive editor at the paper—has been named editor of the Times dining section in Mr. Wells' wake. Read More
Ever since Sam Sifton was announcing to be ending his short-lived tenure as the dining critic at the New York Times, as was the case when he got the gig after Frank Bruni's retirement from the post, speculation's run wild as to who's going to get the top spot. But rumors of one suspect are running particularly wild. Read More
LIKE THE PROTESTORS OF OCCUPY WALL STREET, they don't find themselves in the Financial District as much as those who live there, or those working there on a daily basis, at least before this all started. Unlike the Occupy Wall Street protesters, they knew where Zuccotti Park was before all this started. Lined up on the southern side of park, on Cedar Street between Broadway and Trinity Place, one of the Financial District's two sparse farmers' markets have a new scenery in front of them to take in. Read More
It was around 7 p.m. Monday night, and the McDonald's across from Zuccotti Park was packed. Tired cops who had just spent two hours corralling protesters during one of Occupy Wall Street's marches waited in line behind tired protesters still caked in zombie makeup. The lines for the bathroom were twenty people long; once inside a stall, the used toilet paper is stacked higher than the actual toilets.
A couple of families hurried in and out, one woman dragging her daughter away from two white guys in dreads who were giggling over some tablets of white powder.
"We just found these on the ground man," the two young men confided in us before opening up the capsules and pouring the contents onto the table to inspect. "You never know though."
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Joe Zee is fashion director at Elle, and apparently one of the nicest guys in the business (even if more people recognize him more from The City or Project Runway than his own All On the Line). So it should be no surprise that he's lavished with gifts wherever he goes...especially during Fashion Week. Though Gucci might have outdone itself with its present to Mr. Zee when they caught sight of him front-row during their Milan event this week.
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IHOP is usually where you go during those trips back home after you've gotten drunk with friends, hooked up with that girl you went to high school with, and then puked out your dinner at 3 a.m. in mom's parking lot. Anyone up for pancakes??
So yes, it's a little unnerving to see not one, but two IHOP opening up in the Brooklyn/Manhattan area: it's like finding out you can now order Moon Over My Hammy at The Spotted Pig. Well, not quite that bad, but...
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Everyone had so much fun at The Dutch this summer! We can hardly remember what sun is like, what with the never-ending rain, but during that warmer season the city flocked to Andrew Carmellini's new SoHo restaurant for plentiful seafood and cocktails, not to mention the wistful old-turned-new ambiance. Sam Sifton called it the Read More
Not long ago, I sat at a cocktail lounge in the East Village with a realtor friend as she extolled the virtues of Le Trapeze, a swinger’s club in midtown. The experience, she swore, had cured her of “body image issues.” Which I took to mean that everyone else there looked worse. It didn’t really sound like my scene, to be honest, until she mentioned the buffet. Read More
In July, Dunkin' Donuts went public (or: started to have stock in the company sold on the Nasdaq Stock Market, Homer). And since that very famous, much-ballyhooed public debt, shares in the company soared 42% above where they were since they started selling them. Who lead the Dunkin' IPO and helped get that thing selling? Read More
The Michelin restaurant ratings are among some of the most coveted—and widely reviled—reviews in the entire world of restaurants and restaurant criticism. They loudly tout their "famously anonymous" team of critics and hardcore ratings standards. So why are they Tweeting about eating at Manhattan's famous seafood mecca Le Bernardin last night when the restaurant's been closed since August 1st for rennovations? Read More
