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| | | New York & Co. has put up its "Just Ask the Locals" video featuring Colicchio and Lakshmi, and Padma’s recommendation for Indian food is actually kind of cool: She suggests you visit the basement of a temple on Bowne Street, in Flushing, for “really spicy authentic South Indian food.”... Read More | | | | | | Broadway East is the latest restaurant to partner with a hip designer it’s planning to have regulars ThreeAsFour create server uniforms that will match the banquettes. Let's hope the outfits won’t be as outlandish as the asFour circle bags (shown here) that appeared on Sex and the City, since tho... Read More | | | | | | Chef-owner Eric Ripert has parlayed fish savvy into fine-dining stars for Le Bernardin. But what does the city's most famous poissonier have to say about street food? We took Ripert on a tour of Manhattan’s best taquerias — including La Esquina, Pinche Taqueria, Mercadito Cantina, Pampano Taqueria,... Read More | | | | | | It's 4 p.m., and that means it's time to play Two for Eight. We just asked ten restaurants the best time they can squeeze a couple in for dinner; you need only make your chosen reservation. (As always, we make the calls but don't guarantee the results.) Today: Haute Asian.Asiate (Menu) 212-805-88... Read More | | | | | | Convivio tells us that on Thanksgiving, it’ll be donating $25 of every party's check to Citymeals-on-Wheels; as you feed yourself, you’ll also be feeding four of the city’s homebound elderly. Meanwhile Gothamist has news of more food-lanthropy: Cold Stone Creamery is awarding Orphans International ... Read More | | | | | | This new Victorian bar in the Flatiron looks great (the bar itself was salvaged from a Belfast pub), but shame on the owners, who also run Papillon, for using the name Lillie’s, which will forever belong to Lillie Haws’s shuttered spot in Red Hook. We’re not familiar with the actress this place is ... Read More | | | | | | The economic downturn is trickling down to servers’ tips. “I think people are being a little more exacting in terms of their money,” says Erica Harrison, co-owner of 88 Orchard, a Lower East Side café. It’s hitting restaurants, coffee shops, even bars. “If someone orders a thirteen-dollar cock... Read More | | | | | | Here’s a glimpse at Playa, the restaurant arm of Spencer Rothschild’s self-styled “Latin American Beachside resort” that is now fully open in Park Slope. We already brought you a slideshow of the bar part, which is where you’ll find us (the only resort-themed restaurant where we’d want to consume “... Read More | | | | | | Padma may have been using an outdated figure when she said that New Yorkers spend $10,000,000 on hot dogs — the owner of New York City Hot Dog Company (who recently ran for Congress) says that in the past months his business fell off by 50 percent. After losing $20,000 a month, he finally closed th... Read More | | | | | | After the SLA announced new rules requiring that bars file for “all night” New Year’s Eve permits 45 days in advance, there was some concern that bar owners would drop the proverbial ball — eleven days before the November 17 deadline, only sixteen establishments had applied compared to 611 last yea... Read More | | | |
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