| |  | El Centro | | | “El Centro is dedicated to the increasingly trendy realm of Mexican street foods.” —nymag | | Cuisine: Mexican |
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| | | | | | Pegboards, bright yellow pegboards covering nearly the entire north wall of the restaurant! Glimpsed through the taped windows about a week before the restaurant opened earlier this year, this rather unpromising view was our first peek at El Centro’s interior. HungryMan and I looked at each other, d... Read More | | | | | | | | | | | | MIDTOWN WEST—Though we have word that Mexican restaurant El Centro, briefly shuttered, is now open, we still don't know why it was temporarily closed in the first place. Could Con Edison be to blame? Writes a tipster, "Don't know if this tells the full story--but the building next to El Centro ... Read More | | | | | | Debriefer is a weekly two-part series. On Fridays, we interview random individuals about their favorite cities. On the following Monday, we map their favorite places in those cities. If you'd like to be interviewed for Debriefer, let us know. Charlie Murphy became a household name when he appeare... Read More | | | | | | BOREUM HILL—Above, images of the recently shuttered Jamaican restaurant Brawta, closed, or should we say "Seized" by Feds. Per a tipster, "The orange sticker of doom at Brawta. Cheers!" [EaterWire Inbox] MIDTOWN WEST—Has Mexican eatery El Centro been DOHed, or is there another... Read More | | | | | | Name: Katherine Tasheff Occupation: Web content person, wanna-be photographer Borough: Park Slope Brooklyn Relationship status: Singleton What did you eat today? Ronnybrook Mango drinkable yogurt, GoLean crunch, coffee with milk and brown sugar. Peanut butter and jelly sandwich - Skippy... Read More | | | | | | Chelsea: Patricia Yeo is out at Sapa. [Eater] Lower East Side: Turns out La Esquina’s basement is illegal! [NYP] Midtown West: Get your Charlie Murphy fix at El Centro; it’s his favorite Mexican restaurant. [Gridskipper] Soho: Former 66 chef Josh Eden has taken over the kitchen at Goblin Marke... Read More | | | | | | Regarding the curious case of West Village eatery Ametller, which seemed to have finally crossed the line into death last week, a trio of reader emails refute our conclusion: a) "Walked by there last night around 9pm, and it was all full and the windows were steamed up. Definitely open, definit... Read More | | | | | | Everyone loves that old summer classic: corn on the cob. But too many years of the sub-par supermarket variety, simply boiled, can ruin your taste for it. Enter the new corn on the cob, in its gussied-up Mexican incarnation, elotes. Also called esquites, this is guaranteed to renew your passion. Mos... Read More | | | | | | 1) Soho: A tipster emails the above camphone pic with this note: "This is Lola on Watts St., unsheathed and ripe." Er, alright. What we have here might be the first confirmed case of a restaurant reverting back to Plywood after opening. As noted in the 'Wire a week back, it's got a few m... Read More | | | |
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