Coney Island: The shortening of the Nathan's hot-dog contest is causing a major stir. [City Room/NYT]
Hell's Kitchen: White Castle has a special kind of trash can out front with an ashtray attachment. [Lost City]
Midtown East: The Roosevelt Hotel's new rooftop bar, Mad46, sells bottles for around $300. [Down by the Hipster]
Red Hook: A beer-and-sausage spot called Grindhaus will have an outdoor garden and is opening at 275 Van Brunt Street. [NewYorkology via Eater]
And 354 Van Brunt Street will get a coal oven, so Anselmo's Bakery Restaurant can bake its pizza, pastas, pastries, and breads! [Slice]
West Village: Where there was a Yummy Shawarma there will be a Hummus Place. [Eater]
All Posts Tagged: ‘cafe gray’
Hell's Kitchen White Castle Provides Support for Smokers; Red Hook Gets Yet Another Outdoor-Garden Spot
Kunz Eyes Oceana Space; Meanwhile, Café Gray Presents Doomsday Menu
Eat there while you still can!Photo: Shanna Ravindra
UPDATE: Café Gray will close June 21 — not, as has been reported elsewhere, on June 16.
Gray Kunz and Oceana [Nation's Restaurant News]
Earlier: Is Café Gray Moving? And Is Gray Out at Grayz?
Café Gray Closing on June 30
Denzel’s Bubbly Problem; Café Gray’s Farewell Menu
• Denzel Washington tried to open a bottle of Champagne at 151 the other night, since his server couldn’t do it. Washington failed as well, but then the cork hit the server in the face. [NYP]
• The city’s battle with fast-food restaurants continues as Manhattan borough president Scott Stringer says big chains receive too many tax breaks. [NYT]
• The Pillsbury Doughboy is currently stationed at Park Avenue and 51st Street, where he is handing out slices of cake to kick off the company’s Campaign for a Sweeter America. Pillsbury is also donating 1,500 sweets to the New York Food Bank, which just seems like a bad idea. [Gothamist]
Broome Street Bar Burger Rules; the Hottest Potential in the Hamptons
Astoria: The Bohemian Hall beer garden is hiring. [Joey in Astoria]
East Village: An Eater commenter on Indian-owned Singas pizza: "Singas make pizza like my mom would.... If my mom was a Korean who had never tasted pizza before in her life." [Slice]
Hamptons: If you're heading to a beach where you can drink in public this weekend, you might consider ordering Steady Sticks to secure your wine glasses (and the bottle) upright and above the sand. [Restaurant Girl]
And even though it's in Montauk, the Surf Lodge could be the dark-horse hot spot of the summer. [Down by the Hipster]
Meatpacking District: The closing of Florent's has touched even the coldest of hearts: "You know things are getting bad...when the cynical young keyboard-tappers at Gawker think the City is changing too fast and losing too many of its great places." [Lost City]
Soho: Adam Kuban verifies that even though Kenn's Broome Street Bar burger is on a pita, flouting the most basic of hamburger rules, it can be dubbed a burger, and the version with bacon is a pretty good option in the hood. [Hamburger Today]
Times Square: The rechristened China Club, Eden, opens tonight. [Bottomless Dish/Citysearch]
West Village: Interns (probably) weren't paid to put the "Britney Spears" stickers on the windows of the Life Thyme natural market (and all over the rest of the city) to promote a book that isn't about Britney. [Gothamist]
Is Café Gray Moving? And Is Gray Out at Grayz?
Eater is reporting, via the unconfirmed word of a tipster, that Café Gray will move to Times Square, to a smaller and presumably more affordable space, where chef Gray Kunz can appeal to a tourist crowd more effectively. That is a little hard to picture. So is the other tip the site is reporting — that Grayz, the small-plates restaurant and catering space Kunz opened last year on the East Side, is ejecting the eponymous chef and fixing to close in August, only to reopen as a cocktail lounge. We are reaching out to our own sources within the Gray administration and will see if there’s any truth to either of these rumors.
Unconfirmed Rumormongering: Developments in the Gray Kunz Universe [Eater]
Tables Available at Bouley and Falai; Per Se Fully Booked
Tables Available at Café Gray and 15 East; Jean Georges and Per Se Mostly Booked
Where in Asia Is Gray Kunz Going?
Hopping on a jet plane.Photo: Patrick McMullan
Tables Available at 15 East and Bouley; Masa Fully Booked
Robin Quivers of ‘The Howard Stern Show’ Is Vegan at Per Se
At Gordon Ramsay at the London: "I juice every morning and use nutritional supplements."Photo: Melissa Hom
Café Gray Closing on June 30
Eat there while you still can!Photo: Shanna Ravindra
Café Gray to Close Its Doors [NYS]
Related: The Last Days of Café Gray?
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]
A Voce to Replace Café Gray at the Time Warner Center
Eat there while you still can!Photo: Shanna Ravindra
Gray Skies for Kunz Kitchen? [NYM]
Earlier: The Last Days of Café Gray?
Tables Available at Tailor; Nobu and Masa Fully Booked
Tables Available at Anthos and Café Gray; Per Se Fully Booked
The Last Days of Café Gray?
Eat there while you still can!Photo: Shanna Ravindra
Joe Chirico Allegedly Served As Mob Extortionist; Femme Fatale's Clubhouse to Be Called Come
Brooklyn Restaurant Association president Joe Chirico, indicted last week along with the Gambino clan, allegedly lived a secret life in which he served as an extortionist for the mob. [NYP]
Related: New York Restaurant Association Big Netted in Gambino Roundup
Foodies all over the country are willing to drop serious money to sit at chefs’ tables, but is it worth the hefty price tag at a place like Café Gray? [WSJ]
If insects aren’t dirty or disease-ridden and they are packed with protein, then why aren’t we eating them? [NYT]
Related: What’s It Take to Get a Decent Grasshopper Around Here?
Momofuku, Freemans, Spotted Pig Honchos Break Bread With Stephen Starr
Li Lo does Luger.Photo: WireImage
Tables Available at Café Gray and Tailor.; Masa Fully Booked
Tables Available at Esca and Falai; Masa Fully Booked
Tables Available at Anthos and Masa; Per Se Fully Booked
A Quartet of High-End Bar Treats at Grayz
Tables Available at Anthos and Tailor; Nobu Fully Booked
Does the Name Chef Really Work in the Kitchen Anymore?
April Bloomfield taking a rare break at the Spotted Pig.Photo: Ellie Miller
Dear Grub Street,I'm in New York on business for a little while and will have the opportunity to try a handful of restaurants while I'm here. What are some of the top spots in the city where the chef whose name is on the door is still in the kitchen? I've eaten at both Lupa and Otto, but I imagine Mr. Batali's clogs haven't graced either kitchen in some time (though the food and service at both were excellent, especially Frank behind the bar at Otto). It's not that I need to see a celebrity chef in person … I just want to try good food from good chefs who are still plying their trade. For example, my understanding is that Wylie Dufresne actually still works at wd-50 every day, and, as you recently mentioned in one post, Eric Ripert is always in the kitchen at Le Bernardin. Anywhere else?
Thanks,
Meet the Chef
Tables at Tailor and Anthos; Per Se Fully Booked
Café Gray Back in the Lunch Game on the Upper West Side
Carroll Gardens: Carniceria, the attempted replacement for Porchetta, has gone down for the dirt nap. [Eater]
Meatpacking District: Paradou will kick off its fall menu on October 10. [Grub Street]
Tribeca: Ceci-Cela on Chambers Street will close up shop near the end of December because their landlord tried to impose an “unacceptable” rent increase. [Grub Street]
Upper East Side: Saucy on York Avenue at 75th Street will offer a (what else?) sauce-driven tasting menu from October 8 through 14. [Grub Street]
Upper West Side: Gray Kunz has reinstated lunch at Café Gray with an Indian-Summer Prix Fixe that includes dishes like sweet-corn ravioli and skate schnitzel with fingerlings and brown butter. [Grub Street]
Tables Available at La Grenouille and Café Gray; Balthazar Mostly Booked
Tables Available at Cru and Picholine; Balthazar Mostly Booked
Tables at Anthos, or Eat Late at Jean George; Act Fast for WD-50
Sorry, Ladies: ‘Top Chef’ Non-Winner Tre Wilcox Will Not Seek Divorce
LL Cool Tre in his last Top Chef appearance.Courtesy of Bravo
Tables Available at Etats-Unis and Cru; Bouley Mostly Booked
Tables Available at Bouley and Cru; Balthazar Mostly Booked