Better Coffee Coming to New York; Uno Chicago Grill Can’t Pay the Bills
8/13/08 at 10:00 AM
• The nation’s most respected coffee roasters aren’t located in New York, so it’s a good thing that some of the best from Portland, Seattle, and Chicago will be setting up shop here soon. [NYT]
• The family-friendly Olive Garden chain doesn't care for the unsolicited endorsements of Kendra Wilkinson, who is one of Hugh Hefner’s three girlfriends featured on The Girls Next Door. [WSJ]
• Can the Beatrice Inn boys export Manhattan hipsterdom to South Jersey? [NYO]
• Uno Chicago Grill is the latest chain to feel the financial squeeze, so much so that they won’t be paying a $7.5 million interest payment due Friday. [WSJ]
• Skip the steakhouses and head to restaurants like Prune or Morandi if you’re seeking a truly toothsome slab of meat. [TONY]
• Ditch your boring old flash drive and pick up a new one that looks like a piece of sushi or a buffalo wing instead. [NYS]
• Alie Shaper runs her wine company, Brooklyn Oenology, out of a small office in an ex–factory building in Greenpoint, but she hopes to be running a full-scale vineyard in Brooklyn in a few years. [NYS]

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