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Protesters Rage Against East Village Wine Bars
Reverends Protest Wine Bar and Union Square Cafe Restaurant
A couple of radical religiosos, Reverend Frank Morales, of the St. Marks Church, and the notorious Reverend Billy, of the Church of Stop Shopping, are protesting against two separate projects in the East Village area. "Page Six" says Morales will demonstrate in front of Bruce Willis’s Bowery Wine Co. to demonstrate against what his partner refers to as “right-wing Republicans [a reference to Bruce Willis] opening yuppie wine bars in our neighborhood.” Reverend Billy, meanwhile, got to the top of the Union Square pavilion (a feat not quite as impressive as climbing the Times building) and dropped a "NOT FOR SALE" banner before declaring, “This is where peace and justice were struggled for by hundreds of thousands of Americans over the last century and a half. This cannot be an upscale restaurant!”
SAVE UNION SQUARE – Banner Drop [YouTube]
Willis Winery Irks Bowery Activists [NYP]
Young Republicans Party at Bowery Wine Company; Skip Steakhouses for Father’s Day
• After reading about a protest against Bowery Wine Company and “right-wing Republicans opening yuppie wine bars,” the New York Young Republican club held its monthly social there this week. [NYP]
• Are Chop Suey’s cocktails designed by Milk & Honey or “Milk Honey”? [Life Vicarious]
• Bobo chef Jared Stafford-Hill is concerned with being green in the kitchen because he was raised by “actual hippies.” [Restaurant Girl]
Calorie Law Doomed?; Colicchio Hasn't Been to Ko Either
• The very study that was used by the Health Department to crusade for mandatory calorie posting in food chains may now be used by defense lawyers to undermine the law’s future. [NYS]
• Some Lower East Siders are not stoked about Bruce Willis opening the Bowery Wine Company, so they’re going to buy a pig, name it Bruce, and then eat it. [NYP]
• Wine bars are everywhere, and, thankfully, they’re a lot less stuffy than they used to be. [NYT]
Rusty Knot Bringing Back Frozen Drinks; Bruce Willis Tended Bar in the East Village
East Village: Wine bar Bowery Wine Co., which opens this weekend at the Avalon, is backed by Bruce Willis, but no promises that he'll be behind the bar this Saturday as he did at his own private party last week. [Eater]
The late-night menu that made Ssäm Bar famous is now a shadow of its former self; you can't even actually get ssäm. [Down by the Hipster]
Midtown: Joel Robuchon will be in the house at Atelier for four or five days starting April 11. [Insatiable Critic]
Midwood: Di Fara pizza now has a Facebook page, thanks to Adam Kuban. [Slice]
Soho: The Women Chefs and Restaurateurs (WCR) industry group is hosting the Times' own Florence Fabricant and Kate Krader of Food & Wine magazine tonight at the French Culinary Institute as part of a panel set to discuss how restaurateurs and chefs should deal with Grub Street (well, all forms of media). [WCR]
Fabio Trabocchi has launched a series of Saturday cooking classes beginning this week at Fiamma . [The Strong Buzz]
Tribeca: The evolved Duane Park now has a New Orleans accent. [Zagat]
West Village: Will other bars catch on to Rusty Knot's move to serve frozen drinks? We hope so. [Mouthing Off/Food & Wine]
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