Foodievents
Mar. 31, 2011
Today’s Chefs All Basically Adore Paul Bocuse — and Who Can Blame Kind words from Thomas Keller, Eric Ripert, Charlie Palmer, and more.
Carmellini, Katie Lee, Rachael Ray Discuss What Will Be the Next Burger at Katie Lee votes tacos, Rachael Ray thinks “the hot dog is already sexy.” Plus a closer look at the evening’s burgers.
Occupational Hazards
Oct. 11, 2010
Whoops! Jonathon Sawyer Accidentally Poisoned Himself With a False Chanterelle Thanks to a mushroom-foraging trip gone wrong, the Cleveland chef found himself in the hospital.
Flay Is Scouting an NYC Bobby’s Burger Palace Space ‘Right Thanks to pressure from his wife and friends, he’s finally bringing his burger spot to Manhattanites.
The James Weird Awards
Aug. 20, 2010
The James Weird Awards: This Week’s Hard-to-Swallow Restaurant News Indecent exposure, peeping toms, marinating cats, and the trashing of a Red Lobster — all in this week’s roundup of weird restaurant news.
Temporary Closings
Aug. 6, 2010
Introducing Lifesta, the Swinger’s Club of Dining Coupons A coupon-exchange site lets you buy unused gift certificates, but is it kosher?
Forgot Your Lunch Money? Text for a Free Mystery Brown Bag An urban delivery service is offering free snacks, no strings attached.
Will MasterChef Be Great TV or Bloody Rubbish? What are the critics saying about Gordon Ramsay’s new show, ahead of tonight’s premiere?
New York Gets Another Restaurant Ranking, Review Site Dinevore considers itself to be the Rotten Tomatoes of food.
Community Bored
July 14, 2010
CB2 Blesses Gabriel Stulman’s Fedora; Boom Boom Room to Go Members Only Plus: Neighbors fight over I Tre Merli, and the future of Señor Swanky’s, and more news from last night’s Community Board 2 meeting.
InBundles Joins Six Other Sites for Dining Deals How to score restaurant deals of 50 percent off — and up!
Top Chef Just Desserts
July 9, 2010
Gail Simmons’s All-Butter, All-Sugar Top Chef Diet “All I craved was a cheeseburger, the whole time.”
Simmons Previews Top Chef ; Waxman Defends Gael Greene Jonathan Waxman considers his Obi-Wan nickname “a little embarrassing.”
Emmy Rossum Scares Bears by Singing to Them The New York–born actress on surviving in the wilderness.
June 1, 2010
The New York Sandwich: A Time Line 1888: Katz’s Delicatessen, now the city’s oldest deli, opens on the Lower East Side. The specialties then, as now, were hot meat sandwiches: cor […]
Karen O at MoMA’s Party in the Garden Plus: Jeff Koons, Nicole Miller, Nick Zinner …
Rachael Ray Fears Cake and Lobster She also writes her recipes in longhand.
Natural Disasters
May 4, 2010
Oil Spills All Over Seafood Menus “I think the media is spilling a little bigger than the oil spill itself,” says Daniel Boulud.
party lines
Apr. 23, 2010
Foodievents
Apr. 23, 2010
Eric Ripert Predicts Beard Winners May 2 could be a good night for Keith McNally.
Neighborhood Watch
Mar. 25, 2010
A Cooking Class at ‘21’ Club; Teany Reopening on the Lower East Side Plus: A vodka taste test tonight in the Financial District, and more, in our daily roundup of neighborhood food news.
Neighborhood Watch
Mar. 23, 2010
Benchmark Opens in Park Slope; Belgian Waffles Come to the Village Plus: bacon marmalade for sale in Greenpoint, and more, in our daily roundup of neighborhood food news.
Mar. 18, 2010
Meter Maid Confidential A few thoughts from an anonymous traffic-enforcement agent.
Mar. 18, 2010
Shh, We Spied on a Cop To get a glimpse of what a parking enforcer does on his daily rounds, we secretly trailed one.
Neighborhood Watch
Mar. 17, 2010
Ceol’s Menu Gets a New-Chef Revamp; Barrio Hosts Taco-Eating Contest Plus: U.K. Beer Night at Jimmy’s No. 43, and another Chipotle opens, in our daily roundup of neighborhood food news.
missed opportunities
Mar. 16, 2010
Alec Baldwin: We Had Planned a ‘Saltier’ Oscars “There were a lot of good jokes we had in there that they wanted to tone down.”
Neighborhood Watch
Mar. 16, 2010
Midnight Snacks at Castello Plan; March Madness Tourney at Pump Energy Food And there’s more: St. Patrick’s Day cookies at the Grand Central Terminal Market, and a new caffeine supplier for Sunset Park’s early risers.
Neighborhood Watch
Mar. 11, 2010
Faustina Adds Lunch Service; Chocolate Extravaganza at 92nd Street Y Plus: Gandhi opens in Prospect-Lefferts, and Chicca opens in Soho, in our daily roundup of neighborhood food news.
Mar. 9, 2010
Good Question Five great bar trivia nights.
Neighborhood Watch
Mar. 9, 2010
A Phallic Festival at Matsuri; Breuckelen Grows a Garden Plus: A midnight fête at Landmarc, and Doma hires a new chef, in our daily roundup of neighborhood food news.
Mar. 2, 2010
Irish Spirits Tired of Guinness on St. Paddy’s? Here’s where to try some different alcoholic concoctions with Irish ties.
party lines
Feb. 10, 2010
behind the scenes
Feb. 9, 2010
Why Dustin Hoffman Loves the Library “It’s the first place I ever got laid.”
the most important people in the world
Oct. 30, 2009
Celebrities Love Halloween Just As Much As Children, Gay Dudes We asked every celebrity we’ve run into over the past few weeks what they’ll be wearing tomorrow night.
Michael Mina: No Burgers for the Rabble Michael Mina has no plans to make the burger at RN74 available to folks who don’t own condos in Millennium Tower, where the restaurant is.
Empire Building
Oct. 16, 2009
The Other Critics
Oct. 6, 2009
Boulud Revels in Third Star The Michelin guide makes up for our own critic’s misery.
party chat
Sept. 24, 2009
Ricky Gervais: Successful Putz “In real life, I’m really cool.”