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EaterWire: Rockets’ Red Glare Edition
CHINATOWN—From a tipster, a little holiday weekend DOH action: “FYI: on my way to work I discovered that Chinatown dim sum mainstay, Chatham Square Restaurant, doors were locked and marked by the dreaded department of Health yellow sticker. I quietly weep my way to work without my daily p…
EaterWire: Rockets’ Red Glare Etc. Edition
CHINATOWN—From a tipster, a little holiday weekend DOH action: “FYI: on my way to work I discovered that Chinatown dim sum mainstay, Chatham Square Restaurant, doors were locked and marked by the dreaded agency of Health yellow sticker. I quietly weep my way to work without my daily pork …
Independence Daze #4: Your faraway weekend wouldn’t really be…
Your expanded weekend wouldn’t really be total without that news. Thank us later. [DazeWire]
Original post by Lockhart
Eaters’ Journal 7/3/08: Odeon, Bubby’s, Dovetail, Festival Mexicano
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Kalina, 12/26/07
Odeon: Wednesday, while around the corner Cutty, Platt, RG, Lee Schrager all dined at Forge under the watchful eye of Baum middle-ranker Jen Russo, I’m pretty certain the better move was to sit external at Odeon. Chicken was serviceable to good, goat cheese salad wasn’t naug…
Eater IMterview: Learning to Stop Worrying and Love Merkato 55
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It’s been a little while since we’ve seen an IMterview around these parts. For which we apologize. And present, that.
SlnyDaddy: merkato?
CrbdDaddy: sweet sweet merkato
SlnyDaddy: sweet sweet sweet merkato
SlnyDaddy: in aspen, marcus came by to me
SlnyDaddy: said, hey, do you intellect whether…
Independence Daze #3: Things we are most definitely not…
Things we are most definitely not drinking that afternoon, under any circumstance: a cucumber-lime saketini. [SE]
Original post by Lockhart
The Week In Yelp: The American Splendor of Yelpers
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From the citizens who brought you The Week in Craig, one of the all instance great uses of the Web, comes The Week in Yelp, wherein Amy Blair takes aim at the ridiculousness that is the world of Yelp. Her intrepid Yelp-surfing, and words, follow:
The best part about Independence Day is an oppo…
Independence Daze #2 Update: BBQ at Back Forty!
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Full disclosure: Team Eater has cracked the day’s first bottle of rosé.
[The backyard at Back Forty, where ‘an all-American backyard barbecue’ awaits.]
Kudos to Mr. Ben Schmerler of First Press Public Relations, who, in response to our 12:49pm posting asking for a press release to pu…
Upcharge corridor of Fame: Re El Chod’s punch: “Who is…
Re El Chod’s punch: “Who is that waitress, and where can I find 10 like her for my restaurant.” [Eater Comments]
Original post by BL
Independence Daze #2: All right. We’ll publish, in full,…
All right. We’ll publish, in full, the first restaurant-related press release that hits the Eater inbox. Clock starts… now. [DazeWire]
Original post by Lockhart
Independence Daze #1: From that point on, we’re blogging…
From that point on, we’re blogging pretty much just to amuse ourselves, yes? In which case, anyone out there still stuck at a desk is hereby invited to help. First up, per a reader tip: “Check out this website. It lets you make your own receipts… i made one of Gramercy Tavern.” Your finest re…
Frank Bruni for JP Tod’s: A friend and I were walking…
A friend and I were walking through the door [at Campbell Apartment] when a bouncer-type employee stopped me and said I couldn’t go in. Why? “We don’t allow athletic shoes,” he said. What I was wearing was a pair of very, very expensive Tod’s shoes that I’d…
The Shutter: Pio Maya, 5th Avenue Pizzeria, East Ocean
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1) Greenwich Village: that 8th Street shutter news from the inbox: “Seems Pio Maya on eighth is gone. I walked by it final night to see the gate down. And soon after i noticed the ’store for rent’ sign above. we can probably thank buchbinder and warren and their absurd rent increases for th…












