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All Posts Tagged: ‘bar tabac’

Foodievents 

7/11/08

5:30 PM

Get Your Petanque On This Weekend for Bastille Day

Bastille Day, the French equivalent of the Fourth of July, doesn’t have much resonance in this country — except when it provides an excuse to pour thousands of pounds of sand onto Smith Street, drink pastis cocktails at bistros around town, and generally indulge in Gallic frolicking. Our favorite Bastille Day pastime, though, is petanque, a boccielike game you can play on Sunday in a tournament co-sponsored by Bar Tabac and Robin Des Bois. (To learn more about petanque, in a poignant personal account of it, go here.) To watch, go to Smith Street between Bergen and Pacific, in Boerum Hill. There will also be live music and merguez sausages, according to The Brooklyn Paper. But Bastille Day is not only celebrated in Brooklyn: The Daily News has a good roundup, including a street fair on 60th Street, from Fifth to Lexington avenues, and special events at Benoit, Gavroche, and Cercle Rouge.

La Brooklynais [Brooklyn Paper]
Celebrate Bastille Day by sabering your own bottle of Champagne [NYDN]

Neighborhood Watch 

7/11/08

3:00 PM

New York School Coming to East Village; Financial District Giddy Over Fresco to Go

East Village: Correction: The O.G. restaurant on East 6th Street will close on August 2, and the owner plans to reopen the space this fall as the New York School, which, we think, could be another restaurant. [Eater]
Financial District: Downtown office workers are really excited about the new Fresco to Go on Pearl Street: They were lined up around the block today for a free little taste. [Eater]
Greenwich Village: It's Cow Appreciation Day for the Chick-fil-A chain, and anyone who stops by a location in a cow costume will win — wait for it — a free Chick-fil-A meal. Sneaking into NYU dorm Weinstein is the only way to eat at the city's sole location. This could either assure or destroy your chances of a fast-food chicken today. [Ad Age via Gawker]
Related: Sneaking Past Security for the Sandwich of the Week
Harlem: Le Pain Quotidien is looking at the east side of the neighborhood, near where the Ottomanelli Brothers New York Grill will open at 1325 Fifth Avenue. [NYS via Uptown Flavor]
Tribeca: If you're concerned that Benoit's Bastille Day party on Monday won't feel so celebratory after this week's poor reviews, you could try Cercle Rouge, which will have live music, or another spot on this list of French events happening on Sunday and Monday. [Zagat Buzz]
Williamsburg: There's a cookout Saturday afternoon at the Red Shed Community Garden with $2 hot or veggie dogs and $3 burgers. [Brooklyn Life]

NewsFeed 

5/12/08

2:30 PM

Andrea Strong Hates Her Neighborhood Bistro

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Bar Tabac has crossed Andrea Strong for the last
time.Photo: Jonathan Bourland

Andrea Strong is probably the anti–Alan Richman when it comes to takedowns (you don’t see many of them over at the Buzz), but, boy, does she hate Bar Tabac. In fact, a recent post is titled “I Hate Bar Tabac”! The place was voted best neighborhood bistro in the Time Out awards, but Strong, who lives nearby, thinks it’s a “rude, self-important, obnoxious cave (with al fresco seating) for French ex-pats and ubiquitous hipsters in the Brooklyn area.” She makes the waiters seem like the height of aloofness and incompetence — our own reader reviews run the gamut from “terrible service” to “they take very good care of regulars or pleasant people” to “most of the time I feel extremely rushed by the waiters, but I love their outdoor sidewalk tables so I keep going back.” That last reader may want to read Strong’s jeremiad — there will come a day when you snap!

I Hate Bar Tabac [Strong Buzz]

Mediavore 

5/12/08

10:00 AM

Imagining Cipriani Without Liquor; Gael Greene's Double Date

• Will the next season of Top Chef be filmed in Toronto? [Snack]

• Gael Greene went on a double date at Cacio e Vino with the guy who took her to a controversial dinner at Momofuku Ko. [Insatiable Critic]
Related: Gael Greene Takes David Chang to School

• Where have the spoons at place settings gone? [Zagat Buzz]

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