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The Place: Flora Bar, the newest and much-buzzed-about opening from the Estela and Café Altro Paradiso guys, now open inside of the Met Breuer. Chef Ignacio Mattos and his partner Thomas Carter are, of course, responsible here—a team that’s got a lot of praise, a couple of James Beard nominations and an Obama visit under their belts. Naturally, their first
The Spotted Pig. The Breslin. Salvations Taco and Burger. Shall we go on? We shall. To White Gold, April Bloomfield and Ken Friedman’s whole-animal butcher shop and three-meal restaurant on the Upper West Side. The butcher’s open now and you can sit and eat things from it starting this upcoming Tuesday. We’ll tackle this one piece at a time. Much the
Today in news that seems pretty unfair to all other New York City hotels, both Tom Colicchio and Keith McNally are opening restaurants at the Beekman. Augustine, McNally’s spot, opens tomorrow, and we’ll have everything about that next week. So today we’ll focus on Colicchio’s, dubbed Temple Court, an old-school New York atmosphere where old-school meals
We trust you had a good Halloween weekend. We further trust you’ll have a good Halloween proper. But now, if only for a few moments, let’s shift your focus to Sunday in Brooklyn, a three-floor eatery, coffee spot and marketplace in Williamsburg that a couple gents from Major Food Group are behind. It’s opening tomorrow for dinner and drinks in what was the
Last week, we showed you around Tom Colicchio’s agreeable new spot at the Beekman. Now, we show you Keith McNally’s at the same hotel. It’s called Augustine, and it’s a typically grandiose all-day brasserie of French-via-America food. It’s opening tonight in FiDi. It’s a big deal when Mr. McNally opens a restaurant, him being one of the quintessential
Everything here is very clean, and everything here is very meticulously put-together and attractive, and... Sorry. Got ahead of ourselves a little with N’eat, an obnoxiously named East Village Nordic spot that will nevertheless quickly be responsible for your soon-to-be-found love of squid noodles. It opens tonight. Noma, in Denmark, is pretty much the
You didn’t go trick-or-treating on Monday, which makes sense because you’d look ridiculous out there, as an adult. But another reason is that your palate has grown more sophisticated than to settle for a pillowcase full of Laffy Taffy. And so here is Kreuther Handcrafted Chocolate, a big, bright shop of sweet foods and childlike wonder from a man who
Voting: one of our great American duties. Bringing you news that everyone in Los Angeles’s favorite sushi spot just landed in our own fair city: a duty that’s very clearly on us. And one you’re probably more excited to read about at this point, if we had to guess. So here’s Sugarfish: no, really, it’s figuratively everyone in Los Angeles’s favorite sushi
Optimistically assuming there is a tomorrow, we’ll all live to be able to go to F.O.B. together. It’s a Filipino street food spot from an ex-Daniel chef opening Thursday in Carroll Gardens. Most of the words you need to read will be tucked into this slideshow, because there’s a lot of Filipino barbecue and tuna kilawin with mango to go through. Plus it’s a
Let’s say, hypothetically, there were two new places you should check out, right down the block from each other on 24th Street. Let’s call one Italienne and the other Shay & Ivy. We’ll pretend that one is a sweeping new Italian-Provençal spot, and the other a lounge-bar-restaurant hybrid. Now, you ready for a shock? It’s not hypothetical at all.
