The owners of the hot and trendy restaurants Torrisi Italian Specialties and Parm are among the restaurateurs sniffing around the dessicated corpse of Tavern on the Green , which the Parks Department showed off to potential operators today. “We’re taking it all in,” Torrisi co-owner Zalaznick told City Room during the tour this morning. “The question is how casual they’ll let the restaurant be. It used to be a pretty formal place.” During the tour and Q&A that followed, the Parks Department let it be known that they do indeed want the new iteration of Tavern to be casual and accessible. The city is spending $10 million to renovate and shrink it, and the Wall Street Journal reports that Assistant Parks Commissioner Betsy Smith made it clear that the new Tavern should be “a moderately priced restaurant” that’s not as “fanciful and glitzy as before.” [ more › ]
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Torrisi Italian Specialties Guys Eye Tavern On The Green
Even before it was “cool,” Brooklyn had a lot of Chinese restaurants going for it. And now it has another. The Brooklyn Wok Shop aims to bring your traditional Chinese favorites into the age of hormone- and antibiotic-free meats. So naturally, it is in Williamsburg. [ more › ]
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Brooklyn Wok Shop Tries To Take Basic Chinese Up A Notch
Yesterday we brought you the unexpected discovery of a James Patterson quotation on a block of mimolette cheese at Chelsea’s Westside Market. Intrigued, we ventured to the store in search of the mind behind the rind. And there we discovered Peter “The Doctor” Daniels, a seven-year cheese man of the Westside Market and a 25-year veteran of the food industry, who started putting quotations on the cheese just to fill a labeling void. “There’s extra space where a description is supposed to go but I found that people weren’t reading them,” he explains. ” I thought I would put something else that people could be inspired by. ” [ more › ]
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Meet The Mysterious Cheesemonger Behind The Quotable Fromage
Neighborhood NIMBYs are about to get a new tool in their arsenal. DNAinfo reports that the New York State Liquor Authority is getting ready to launch an interactive map this month that will let you see what your local bars have been up to (along with any bar in the State). Better than having to file a FOIL-request just to find out if anyone else has been whining about that noisy bar on the block! [ more › ]
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New SLA Map Hopes To Make Tracking "Bad" Bars Easier
Someone in the cheese department at the Westside Market has gotten creative with the cheese labeling. Or as Kathy Cacace notes in her Tweet: has “fucking lost their mind.” The description on this chunk of mimolette reads: “Sara had been gone for 25 years, and in all that time I hadn’t found any new ways to cope. Only to miss her.” This appears to be from James Patterson’s book, Run For Your Life , where he writes something similar about a woman named “Maeve.” [ more › ]
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Unexpected, Bizarre Literary Reference On This Piece Of Cheese
Earlier today the Garden State’s lovable roly-poly governor Chris Christie went and called another lawmaker “numbnuts” while he was apologizing for something else he’d said. Which makes now as good a time as any to review just a few of the other schoolyard insults Christie has tossed around since taking office! The man does have a way with words: [ more › ]
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6 Schoolyard Names Chris Christie Has Called People (And 6 We’d Like Him To)
Don’t let that “A” grade from the Health Department fool you; according to MTA bus driver Lajzer Grynsztajn, there’s bad chicken being served at that JFK Fried Chicken outlet in Sunset Park. Grynsztajn, an MTA bus driver, has filed a lawsuit against the restaurant, alleging that a 2-inch wire coil got lodged in his throat as he ate some chicken breast at the establishment. “I felt a sharp pain, like I was choking,” he tells the Daily News . “I thought I was choking on a bone.” He says he soon started coughing up blood, and had to go to the hospital to have it removed. JFK’s manager, of course, thinks lawsuit smells fowl. [ more › ]
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JFK Fried Chicken Sued By Bus Driver Who Choked On Metal Coil In Chicken Breast
Do you have someone to impress on Valentine’s Day, a bathing suit, and oh, $1,500 handy? Then the Peninsula Hotel ‘s Valentine’s Day dinner package might be for you: The Fifth Avenue hotel is offering only one couple the chance to splurge on a five-course meal with a chance to swim in its pool. And it’ll be really private. The hotel says, “The entire pool area, located on the 22nd floor and featuring views of the sparkling city skyline, will be reserved for the use of the couple to enjoy a five-course meal paired with a bottle of vintage Champagne and followed by a dip in the pool.” [ more › ]
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Peninsula Hotel Offers $1,500 Valentine’s Dinner And Private Swim To Just One Couple
And the Paula Deen fallout continues! In addition to an internet angry over her diabetes “coverup” , high blood pressure worries and local gyms making fun of her now the Food Network’s Butter Queen has rumors of familial discord to deal with. [ more › ]
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Paula Deen’s Sons Were Also Upset Over Her Deenabetes
A joint investigation between the DEA and FBI culminated this morning with the arrest of five high-ranking members of the Bonanno crime family, officials announced . The five alleged gangsters include “made” Bonanno member Vincent Badalamenti, a.k.a. “Vinny TV, and Nicholas “Nicky Mouth” Santora, who previously did 15 years in prison after undercover FBI agent Joseph Pistone—dubbed “Donnie Brasco”—infiltrated the family by posing as a gangster in the late 1970s. In the movie about that investigation, Santora ( played by Bruno Kirby ) was killed; in real life he was released from prison in 2009, and now it looks like he’s going back. [ more › ]
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Feds Bust Five Bonanno Family Mobsters, Including ‘Donnie Brasco’ Underboss