Astoria: Another Asian restaurant has opened on Ditmars, but this one serves Japanese and Thai food and has a nice name: East Moon. [Joey in Astoria]
Carroll Gardens: Donut House will be closed for two weeks while the owner refurbishes the interior, but he promises the look will still be "classic diner." [Eater]
East Village: No new Veselka news here: Get the burger. [Hamburger Today]
Midtown East: Crawfish week at Aquavit starts Monday when you can start ordering the $24 Peel and Eat meal with a pound of crayfish, garlic bread, boiled potatoes, and Jarlsberg cheese. There's another, slightly fancier prix fixe option and special desserts like princess cake with raspberries. [Grub Street]
The Roosevelt Hotel's rooftop bar, mad46, runs such weekly specials as Mojito Mondays and Tiki Tuesdays, and it has great views of the Helmsley and MetLife buildings. [NewYorkology]
Related: It's More Fun on a Roof, Sweet Rooftop Action
South Brooklyn: They only serve a Margherita pie at the P.J. Hanley’s annex South Brooklyn Pizza, but you can now bring your own toppings. [Strong Buzz]

Carroll Gardens: The Clover Club's encyclopedic drink menu is pretty interesting for those "uninitiated to the nuances of high-class cocktails." [Bottomless Dish/Citysearch]
Chinatown: The former East Side Cafe diner will be reopened as a spot called Cafe Petisco. [Eater]
East Village: Belcourt has introduced a daily oyster happy hour from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., with a half-dozen oysters for $10, plus half-price hooch. [Zagat Buzz]
Soho: The family behind Lombardi's has opened a little café called PetalBelle on Sullivan Street, between Houston and Prince streets, where they're serving patisseries from Balthazar and traditional Belgian waffles baked with pearls of sugar in the batter. [Thrillist]
Lower East Side: Bondi Road offers some funny-sounding but equally awesome deals throughout the week, like Shark-Attack Sundays, with $10 shark steaks and $10 pitchers of "beach juice"; an all-you-can-drink $15 brunch with unlimited Foster's, greyhounds, and screwdrivers; and Barramondays, when barramundi fillets are $10 and cocktails are $5. [Grub Street]
Midtown: There's an expensive restaurant where the sommelier poured a really bad Pinot Grigio as the first wine in a pairing and wouldn't take it back. Anyone else feel recently scammed by a sommelier? [Mouthing Off/Food&Wine]
Murray Hill: Pamplona has an all-night happy hour on Saturdays, with glasses of sangria or wine for $5 and mojitos for $6, from 5 p.m. until close. [Grub Street]
West Village: Since Keith McNally says he's not going to change the look of Minetta Tavern, he offers this response as to why construction is taking so long: “There are…parts of the tavern that have been ‘modernized’ over the past 25 years in a manner which I found sufficiently disturbing to make me decide to replace them with something much closer to their original state.” [Villager]
Upper East Side: Frank Bruni and his cohorts are not fans of Allorro's fried pasta, which a "pessimist would call rock-hard and an optimist would call super-crunchy," or any of the food, really. His first impressions are in stark contrast to Steve Cuozzo's recent rave. [Diner's Journal/NYT]

Carroll Gardens: The new Fat Cat Wines, on Court Street, between West 9th and Huntington streets, makes a good case for traveling south of Nelson. The shop has some really good bottles, mostly from small and organic producers. [Brooklyn Life]
The peach nectar used in the smoothies at Nectar is made with high fructose, so keep in mind that not all smoothies you order are made with real, healthy fruit. [Bergen Carroll]
Chelsea: Three Tarts, at 164 Ninth Avenue, near 20th Street, makes summery marshmallows in flavors like passion fruit, yuzu, and basil, and they're all made daily. [TONY]
East Village: Paul's burgers are tasteless, with a grotesque bun-to-burger ratio: "The bun's bottom half completely disintegrates from burger juice, while the other half sits helplessly like a beanie on a rotund child, unable to cover much." [Hamburger Today]
Flushing: In honor of the Beijing Olympics, Julia Moskin spent a month tooling around the area for superior Chinese food, and her findings will come out in the Times tomorrow. [Diner's Journal/NYT]
Amore Pizza, in the Pathmark shopping center on Linden Place and the Whitestone Expressway, makes a review-worthy slice, according to a Slice reader, and Chowhounders agree. [Slice]
Lower East Side: Congee Village isn't just a restaurant that serves one of David Chang's favorite cheap eats: The place has five private rooms downstairs, where "karaoke flows like rice liquor." [Gridskipper]
Tribeca: Nobu Matsuhisa is watching how you eat your sushi at his sushi bar, and you use too much soy sauce. [Zagat Buzz]
Williamsburg: A cheap late-night Mexican spot called La Superior is opening on August 4 in the former Kate's Brooklyn Joint space, on Berry and South 2nd streets. [Eater]
Hope Lounge is hosting a summer party tomorrow night with the Finger on the Pulse and Dinner With the Band people, and they'll serve everything from North Carolina–style pulled pork, burnt ends, and mole-braised duck to banana-coconut corn bread, at $5 per plate. [Down by the Hipster]

Carroll Gardens: Rob and Robin have already noted that South Brooklyn Pizza owner Jim McGown transitioned from real-estate developer to pizzaiolo, but here are some more details about how he did it. [Business Week]
Greenwich Village: Akhtar Nawab might unveil some homemade breads at Elettaria that are like the ones he used to roll out in his mother's kitchen. [Restaurant Girl]
Midtown East: Alto has picked up the Grand Award from Wine Spectator. The honor, which only 72 other restaurants worldwide have, is only for restaurants with over 1,500 bottles on their lists. [Grub Street]
Nolita: Thanks to the soon-to-open Delicatessen, "the smell of bubbling cheese is everywhere" (around Prince and Lafayette streets). Someone call a CB meeting. [Eater]
Soho: A papered storefront on Sullivan Street, between Houston and Prince, has a sign painted on the window that says they will sell authentic "Liegé" Belgian waffles. They put the wrong accent on the town name Liège, but "Liegé" totally sounds more authentic. [Eater]
Williamsburg: Artist's space 3rd Ward, at 195 Morgan Avenue, is hosting a pig roast with help from Marlow and Bonita this Sunday from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m., with live music from 6 p.m. on. [Bushwick Is Beautiful]

Carroll Gardens: On July 26, Tall Order caterers will serve a Brownstone Dinner at their house, on the corner of President and Smith streets. [Bergen Carroll]
Harlem: Nectar Wine Bar, at 235 Frederick Douglass Boulevard, is pairing up with next-door's Harlem Vintage and the Joy of Cheese on Sunday to host a wine-and-cheese tasting, which you'll need to buy tickets for to attend. [Uptown Flavor]
Park Slope: The Brooklyn Burger Bar has been replaced by Flipsters, which looks like another burger bar. [Blondie and Brownie via Hamburger Today]
Prospect Heights: James Bistro is the latest in this line of good neighborhood eats. [NYT]
Soho: Frank Bruni may say “Fiamma is about as Italian as a poodle in a Prada scarf,” but Fabio Trabocchi's unfazed: “You don’t need a red-and-white checkered tablecloth and a bowl of spaghetti with tomato sauce to be Italian.” [Gothamist]
West Village: Lauded chef César Ramirez has left Bar Blanc, and another Bouley alum, Sebastiaan Zijp, will not only step in, he'll expand the menu and add more snack-able bar food. [Eater]

Astoria: Mundo's hosting a gluten-free dinner on July 9. [Joey in Astoria via Astorians]
Carroll Gardens: Some cocktail enthusiasts are already musing that the Clover Club gets it right, but there are a few critics scolding the spot for being too contrived. [Eater]
Chelsea: Big Booty Bread Company's going on vacation and, we hope, not a permanent one. The plan is to reopen July 17. [Blog Chelsea]
Murray Hill: Frank Bruni seems annoyed that Country's reinventing itself as a steakhouse and fears even more steak annexes, though he concedes, "Maybe the food at the forthcoming Country Steak will be more imaginative and surprising than that name." [Diner's Journal/NYT]
Park Slope: Check out the nice up-skirt snapshots of the pizza (and a Nutella calzone) at one of Rob and Robin's Brooklyn-pizza picks, Toby's Public House. [Slice]
West Village: The "hard"-frozen-yogurt spot opening on Bleecker and Grove streets is called Eskimix. [Eater]

Carroll Gardens: Former Asiate chef Eton Chan has opened a handmade-dumpling house with shaved ice on the menu at 205 Sackett Street, near Henry Street. [TONY]
Coney Island: Beer Island might not have a skyline view like Water Taxi Beach, but the new spot just got its very own BBQ truck, courtesy of Chris McGee, "a veteran of Blue Smoke and Jean Georges." [Strong Buzz]
East Village: Tasting Room chef Colin Alevras is not out of a job now that the restaurant has closed; he's opening a Cuban spot called La Otra, in a space that still holds a running restaurant. [Eater] La Zarza is trying to get a piece of the Monday-night party scene. [Down by the Hipster]
Greenpoint: The UnFancy Food people are hosting a backyard barbecue on Saturday, the night before the main event, so you can meet some of the producers. [Brooklyn Based]
Flatiron: Shake Shack vs. its West Coast counterpart, In-N-Out: "The patty is a lot thicker at the Shack...and...the Shack, unlike most L.A. burgers that I sampled, adds lettuce in a sparing manner." [A Hamburger Today]
Park Slope: A neighborhood pizza-slice guide, "Every Damn Slice Pizzeria in Park Slope," now can be yours. [Slice]
Prospect Heights: Flatbush Farm will cater your Fourth of July BBQ with raw, marinated meat, pasta and potato salads, and ready-to-serve pulled pork, all priced per selection. [Grub Street]
West Village: Sheridan Square will annex the former Tasca space, and have it open in July. [Zagat]

Astoria: Mundo Cafe will bring back its summer menu next week. Which means the return of Hungarian cherry soup, which only looks like Pepto-Bismol. [Joey in Astoria]
Carroll Gardens: Yes, that's a giant gondola made out of ice in the window of Marco Polo. The restaurant's celebrating its 25th anniversary, but no, they probably won't let you ride it even in this heat. [Lost City]
Greenwich Village: Recently opened Thunder Jackson's has good bar food, but the forties of Miller High Life served in paper bags are $12. [Bottomless Dish/Citysearch]
Upper East Side: Frank Bruni finds the most interesting outcome of the Beard Awards to be Café Boulud's Gavin Kaysen as Rising Star Chef since "this says a lot about the impression Kaysen has made, or rather how quickly he’s made it. And it says a lot about Daniel Boulud’s ability to pick talent." [Diner's Journal/NYT]
Williamsburg: A Harvard grad got himself locked into Trophy Bar after passing out in the bathroom, and by the time he got a friend to come by the morning after and try to help, he had fallen asleep in the bar's back garden. [NYT]
West Village: Web buzz has it that Sheridan Square's food is legit, but the atmosphere is strange since so far the restaurant always feels empty. [Eater]

Bedford-Stuyvesant: The owners of the Smoke Joint hope to have their new southern spot, Peaches, open by July 4. [Eater]
Carroll Gardens: Marco Polo Restaurant is serving bargain prix fixe lunches and dinners to celebrate its 25th anniversary. [Bergen Carroll]
Harlem: The owner of Kuma Inn is onboard as a chef at Talay, a Southeast Asian and Latin restaurant opening tomorrow at 701 West 135th Street. [NYT]
Lower East Side: Broadway East is one of a few restaurants making artisan sodas, and the organic eatery has some especially unique flavors, such as "ginger and kaffir lime; hibiscus and rhubarb; cola with a base of kukicha, a kind of Japanese tea." [NYT]
Midtown East: Solera only serves Spanish wine. And why not? French and Italian restaurants do it, and Spanish wines are as good as ever. [NYS]

Carroll Gardens: The Jake Walk has so many good elements it's best to call it "a gastro wine-cocktail lounge and charcuterium," rather than a bar. The recipe for the house cocktail, included here, also has a lot of components, including white rum, tequila, and elderflower liqueur. [Mouthing Off/Food & Wine]
East Village: The Ukrainian Festival this weekend on 7th Street between Second and Third will sell pierogi, blintzes, and shashlyk, a type of kebob. [Zagat Buzz]
Midtown East: An outpost of Joe coffee is opening in Grand Central on May 28. [Grub Street]
Midtown West: Gallagher's Steak House is hosting its Belmont Steaks lunch benefit and horse-race-handicapping seminar, featuring a number of racing pundits, on June 3. [Grub Street]
Williamsburg: Action Burger has pissed off comic-book fans who tried to eat there after the convention and found the place closed. [Eater]
West Village: Bar Blanc launches lunch service this weekend with dishes like steamed hen egg over polenta and a ploughman’s lunch of cured meats and cheeses. [Grub Street]
Lelabar has $1 oysters on Wednesdays and Saturdays. [Bottomless Dish/Citysearch]

Astoria: Mano's Papaya will live again, just a few blocks from its former space-cum–Bank of America. [Joey in Astoria]
Carroll Gardens: Jay-Z and Beyoncé had a (engagement?) meal at Lucali's. [NYer via Slice]
Dumbo: In honor of Mother's Day, Almondine will offer delivery of its baked goods on Sunday, May 11, as long as you order by the night before. Plus, you don't have to prove you're a mother, or even know one, to take advantage of tearing apart croissants in bed. [Dumbo NYC]
Tribeca: Construction on Zeppelin's new space at Church and Worth begins next week. [Bottomless Dish/Citysearch]
Related: A Revived Zeppelin Eyes Downtown Spot
West Village: Real Spanish people work and drink at Spain Restaurant. [Eater]

Astoria: For all their great ethnic pastries, bakeries in the nabe sure make tasty red-velvet cakes, too. [Joey in Astoria]
Carroll Gardens: A sign for "Old Brooklyn Wine & Liquor Co., a new wine shop" has replaced the ancient one for Sonny and Nancy's sign . [Lost City]
Chelsea: First they came for Bright Food Shop. Then they came for Kitchen Market next door, which is now apparently going to be a Subway. [Bottomless Dish/Citysearch]
Murray Hill: Fino has been closed by the Department of Health, and not for the first time. [Eater]
West Village: BarFry tops this list of one-hit-wonder restaurants. [Gridskipper]

Bay Ridge: Symphonia Restaurant opens today at 6762 Fourth Avenue, with gyros! [Bay Ridge Blog]
Carroll Gardens: Jake Walk is already buzzing with drinkers, and "wine, cheese, and little snacks are keeping the yuppies happy," in a good way. [A Brooklyn Life]
Chelsea: Soul Fixin's Restaurant is open on West 28th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues, whether or not you appreciate the apostrophe in its name. [East Village Idiot]
Long Island City: Hunter's Point Wines & Spirits is hosting an organic- and biodynamic-wine tasting tonight from 6 to 8, but you should RSVP. [Joey in Astoria]
Midtown East: Benjamin Steakhouse in Grand Central is open for late lunch from 3 to 6. [Grub Street]
Midtown West: Fred Dexheimer has been appointed national wine and beverage director for the BLT group. [Grub Street]
Soho: On April 1, Sanctuary T will start a monthly series on the origins and harvesting of tea. A $10 suggested donation goes to City Harvest. [Zagat Buzz]
West Village: True, this mint cookie from Milk and Cookies looks awesome, but better than a Thin Mint, blogger? Thin ice. [NewYorkology]
Williamsburg: Are Anytime's tots safe from Realtors?! [I'm not saying, I'm just saying]

Astoria: Ovelia’s another stellar, cheap brunch option with a mix of Greek and American cooking: “Think French toast stuffed with Greek yogurt and honey or pancakes paired with homemade sausage — made from a family recipe.” [Foodista]
Brooklyn: Domino's has started a marketing campaign that "offers speech lessons to Brooklynites who want to rid themselves of ‘annoying, fake’ accents" meant to appeal to "male college students across the country," and the borough is pissed. [NYDN]
Carroll Gardens: The owners of Smith & Vine and Stinky Brooklyn are opening a bar-cum-café called the Jake Walk at 282 Smith Street this Friday. [NYS]
East Village: Terroir opens tonight. [NYT]
West Village: Mama’s Mudsliders’ beignets filled with chocolate cream "are light, ungreasy, deep-fried dough balls of delight." [Bottomless Dish/Citysearch]

Carroll Gardens: The Clover Club — the Smith Street cocktail spot from the Flatiron Lounge people have a sign up. Getting close! [Off the Presses]
Gramercy: Shockingly, for some cooked-food enthusiasts, "some of Pure’s dishes, and not just obvious things like salad, are downright delicious." [Mouthing Off/Food & Wine]
Greenwich Village: Somebody told somebody that a bartender at a new bar told him that Keith McNally may have put a $1 million bid on Minetta Tavern. [Eater]
Hell’s Kitchen: Video of Dave Martin concocting a special Valentine’s Day gelato to serve at Crave. [Snack]
Tribeca: David Waltuck "first got behind the stove [at Chanterelle] — and set the restaurant on its path to becoming one of the city’s most cherished — before he was 25 years old. He’s now 53." And ready for a Q&A with Frank Bruni. [Diner’s Journal/NYT]
West Village: Grom is totally coming to Bleecker Street, and they’re accepting applications now for a March opening. [Eat for Victory/VV] Was Beatrice Inn raided and shut down last night? [Down by the Hipster]

Astoria: Sunswick is having an Abitas beer promotion on Sunday with drink specials, but if you’re less concerned about game day, you could check out the renovation at Il Bambino. [Joey in Astoria]
Carroll Gardens: Naturally Delicious caterers, who also did this blogger’s wedding, will deliver a V-Day menu that includes baked oysters, lobster bisque, tenderloin, a cheese plate, and a Valrhona flourless chocolate cake to those who want to stay in but aren’t able to whip up our sexy stash of recipes. [A Brooklyn Life]
Flatiron: City Bakery kicks off its monthlong hot-chocolate festival tomorrow, which highlights rotating "additional flavors, from Caramel or Banana Peel to the Chili Pepper or even Beer varieties." [Restaurant Girl]
Midtown East: If you show up at Sakae Sushi and find that it’s closed for a couple of days, you can stop into nearby Yakitori East on 44th Street. Just remember: The winter specialty shirako that their menu dubs as "soft cod roe" is "rather beige globules of sperm sacs." [Gothamist] On February 12, eliminate "menstrual and sexual health concerns" through food at D’Or; let’s hope there’s chocolate involved. [Love Your Femme via Gridskipper]
Union Square: Mesa Grill impresario Bobby Flay just got back from Greece and would fly there again for all that "delicious Greek olive oil and some lemon and some potatoes and Greek salad," but if he would just stay in New York, maybe Mesa Grill would have been able to hold on to more of its stars. [Diner’s Journal/NYT]

Astoria: Oleput reopened. But does it have a liquor license? [Joey in Astoria]
Carroll Gardens: Residents are opposed to a bar and grill next to Black Mountain Wine House. [Brooklyn Paper]
East Village: Is ssäm off the menu at Ssäm Bar? [Eater]
Gowanus: Look for a new coffee-and-sandwich shop called the Crooked Tail Café coming soon to Third Avenue and President Street. [Brownstoner]
Greenpoint: One patron at Greenpoint Coffeehouse wants his anti-brunch message heard. [New York Shitty]
Midtown: Combine dinner with people-watching at the food court at Grand Central Station. [Weblicist of Manhattan]
West Village: The panini at ’ino are salty and sweet. [Gothamist]

Carroll Gardens: Renovations seem to be happening at Jason Neroni's old haunt, Porchetta, but as of yet there are no reliable rumors about the new restaurant's pedigree. [Eater]
East Village: Tasty Falafel’s eight-cent sandwich deal set for this Friday might come with more than you bargained for, like the roach pictured in this order. [Eat for Victory/VV]