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Pulq’ Fiction

Pulq’ Fiction

Information this valuable typically requires a sacrifice.Human. Preferably virgin.But we’re feeling generous, so let’s waive the fee.And skip right to the part where the secret quesadilla hideout is revealed.Presenting Pulqueria, a mysterious Mexican enclave in an abandoned Chinatown basement, opening tonight.To be clear, you’d probably never find this place

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Rising Sons

Rising Sons

Today, we’re going to do the unthinkable.Tinker with the Lower East Side deli.Relax, it’s not nearly as crazy as it sounds.All we’re doing is adding a bar, some upscale comfort food and a couple of chandeliers.Enter Sons of Essex, a forward-thinking establishment that’s deli in the front, dining room in the back and dressed to look like your grandpa’s study,

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Ki’ Master

Ki’ Master

Important second-date-sushi-related development. We’re replacing your regularly scheduled sashimi boat for two with a sashimi boat for one. It was necessary. Especially if you’re going to leave room for lobster ramen, chunks of Wagyu and furious beats. Get to know Kibo, a huge, bi-level, Japanese palace in Gramercy that’s rewritten the sushi

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Eastern Promises

Eastern Promises

Today, a moment of silence.The Pizzeria Uno on 6th Avenue has passed on.But it didn’t die in vain.It died so that we can have osetra caviar, horseradish vodka... and models named Svetlana.Introducing Onegin (pronounced “on-again”), a one-time pizza parlor that’s been transformed into a madhouse of Russian indulgence, in previews now and opening next week.If

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Spanish Fly

Spanish Fly

519 years ago tomorrow, Columbus dropped by the Americas.He sailed under the Spanish flag.That reminds us: tapas.Introducing Ventanas, a lantern-lit tapas bar under the High Line with a murderers’ row of small plates and the occasional midriff-baring dancer, now open.Around these parts, the High Line goes by a different name: roof. In fact, support beams

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Afternoon Delight

Food Afternoon Delight Ladies, gentlemen, distinguished lovers of all things hollandaise—today we’d like to address the state of brunch. Below: a UD-approved/government-ratified guide to the finest new midday meal options this fall. From the transcendental to the partially nude to the

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Counter Culture

Counter Culture

It’s very important that you don’t read this until 12:00:01am on January 1. We want your first thoughts of 2012 to be glorious. And also of something you can eat. Welcome inside The Bowery Diner, an all-American homage that updates the 1950s comfort food institution in all the right ways (yes, your diner now has a raw bar), slated to open in early

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Go North

Go North

It’s been two years. Two. Long. Years. But finally, the New York Giants are back in the playoffs. Also, Danny Meyer has a brand-new restaurant. Bad timing by the Giants... Introducing North End Grill, a seafood-and-scotch-centric Battery Park City home base—and the first new concept in two years from the man who gave us Gramercy Tavern,

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Pickle Back

Pickle Back

We made a promise to you a long time ago. We swore, above anything else, that if we heard rumblings about a pickle-based restaurant, you’d be the first to know. Wait, don’t tell us you don’t remember that... The place is Jacob’s Pickles, a Southern pub on the Upper West Side that cares very deeply about three things: beer, biscuits and pickles

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Hey Jo

Hey Jo

Imagine you’re dating Lady Gaga. Things are going great. You’ve finally gotten used to dressing like a balloon. And now you’re at that point in the relationship where her father wants to meet you for dinner. Good thing he’s opening an Italian restaurant. Welcome to Joanne, a town house of a trattoria on the Upper West Side that’s owned by

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