At around noon yesterday, the P.A. inside the Park Slope Food Co-op crackled to life. "Does anyone know if we still have any iodine tablets?" came the query across the fluorescent-lit, bulk bin-lined, members-only... MORE >
On a rainy day in March, four D.C.-area acquaintances from the online community FantasyFeeder.com--Kaptn03, ThatReesesGirl, Msprettypanties and Pokeythepenguin--piled into Pokey's Jeep and cruised up I-95 to New York. The occasion was a performance of Feeder: A Love Story, an Off Off Broadway play at HERE in Soho about the sexual fetish known as feederism, which involves bingeing on fattening food, often with the help of a... MORE >
Not long ago Burger & Barrel opened in Soho offering $25 truffle burgers as if the Great Recession were already over (or perhaps it never began). But reality comes roaring back, with news that lenders have sought to foreclose on the restaurant's home and are marketing the loan for $8.5 million, The Observer has... MORE >
The knives came out yesterday when it was revealed the Port Authority had decided to forego a restaurant atop One World Trade Center, a la Windows on the World. "It's world-class heartbreak for lovers of sky-high dining," wrote the Post's Steve Cuozzo. But the agency appears to have made an appetizing... MORE >
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Peggy Siegel's tennis group was here Monday. A bevy of blondes and one or two brunettes took over a round center table in the Grill. I delivered a pink-and-plum-colored spring bouquet to their table, because I decided the ladies deserved some fresh florals. You can tell spring is in the air because half of the women had sunglasses perched on their heads throughout... MORE >
Somewhere along the line, beer became as viable an option as wine for something to bring to a dinner party in New York. So be it. Now what? Faux pas await you, ones you'd never find with... MORE >
A signed photo of Regis Philbin in his pre-retirement years of taut jowls and salt and pepper hair greets guests near the entrance to Rao's on East 114th Street. Next to him the top half of a dutch door is open, drawing the eye into the steaming kitchen of the legendary Italian eatery, a stainless steel cauldron the size of Rhode Island gurgling across several stovetop... MORE >
As Arby's begins a big marketing push for its new menu of Angus roast-beef sandwiches, the chain might want to avoid the sort of language emplolyed by Brian Kolodziej, its vice president for product development and integration, at a recent media tasting.... MORE >
First they came and started building a basketball arena. Then they came to build a Whole... MORE >
"Money Honey" Maria Bartiromo was here last week with a gentleman. It must have been a very serious conversation because they were talking intensely; maybe it was about the future of her workplace, the New York Stock Exchange. TV journalism's orginal glamour girl, Barbara Walters, also stopped by for lunch this week, bringing Mrs. Rudy Giuliani along as her guest. To complete the newsroom triumvirate, Paula Zahn came in on Monday with another woman and sat... MORE >
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The worlds of art and food share a paradoxical passion for authenticity and celebrity, aesthetic novelty and rarefied sensations--the stuff of art-fair-vacation weekends. The artist-chef collaboration epitomizes this young marriage. And who better to whet the tongues of collectors and connoisseurs than the so-called godmother of performance art, Marina... MORE >
The Danny Meyer restaurant opening in the Whitney Museum next month now has a (preciously post-modern) name: "Untitled." Meyer's Union Square Hospitality Group is re-imagining the former Sarabeth's space as an all-day breakfast spot inspired, it says, by vintage Madison Avenue coffee shops. Chef Chris Bradley, late of Gramercy Tavern, will serve seasonal staples seven days a week, with dinner on Saturday and Sundays. On weekend dinners, Meyer, ever the cuisine-y control freak, will serve one... MORE >
The habits of New York craft beer drinkers owe an inestimable debt to ... California. The Golden State birthed the craft beer movement in the United States; it incubated the heavily hopped style that has come to define American craft beer more than any other; and it laid the template for that thankfully ubiquitous of craft beer hosts, the brewpub. Essentially, everything that leads to your next pint in this horrid winter began in... MORE >
80 DeKalb Avenue Until recently, the most pressing question facing Brooklyn patty partisans was whether to get the pickles on the side. Then several months ago The Observer reported that Shake Shack was heading for Fulton Mall, adding some much-needed sizzle to the borough's burger options. Now comes news that New York's beloved burger chain will have to go bun-for-bun with Denver-based Smashburger, which is opening a location just blocks away at 80 DeKalb... MORE >
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