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Neighborhood Watch

5/16/08

3:00 PM

Oven-Equipped Food Truck for Sale; Scarpetta Off to Strong Start

East Village: Telephone Bar & Grill is hosting a benefit for the children of Nepal on Sunday, June 1. [Grub Street]
Hell's Kitchen: Soho's Mooncake Foods has opened a second, much larger location at 263 West 30th Street. [Flickr]
Lower East Side: Good luck re-creating wd~50's recipe for almond-ice-cream "rocks," which calls for twenty grams of dextrose and bitter foam, among other ingredients. [Restaurant Girl]
Meatpacking District: Scarpetta's off to a strong start. Even if someone steals a slice of steak from you. [Eater]
Midtown East: The Pranzo pizza truck is missing, because it's up for sale. [Midtown Lunch]
Midtown West: On Monday, a theater company will perform bits from its upcoming adaptation of Molière's Monsieur de Pourceaugnac at D'Or, in the Dream Hotel. [Zagat Buzz]
Nolita: The bartenders at the reincarnated Randolph, which will open at 319 Broome Street this weekend, have a Milk & Honey pedigree and the best in specialty ice, which is made to melt slower, so your drink stays colder (and less watery) longer. [Grub Street]
Tribeca: West Broadway's getting a Le Pain Quotidien; this could fill the void of the Chambers Street Ceci-Cela, which closed late last year due to rising rents. [Eater]
West Village: Pichet Ong serves serves house-made ginger, passion fruit, and calamansi sodas at P*Ong. [Grub Street]

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Openings

5/ 9/08

2:30 PM

A First Look at Highbar, Midtown's Newest Rooftop

Let's get high.Photo: Melissa Hom

Feast your eyes on Highbar — when it opens, during the third week of May, it’ll be competing with recently opened Pooldeck for the city’s rooftop revelers. As you’ve known since last year, this is the new one from Greg Brier of Aspen, D’Or, and Amalia. The food program has been scaled down since Ivy Stark was slated to barbecue — now you’ll find what’s being described as simply backyard-grill food such as hot dogs and hamburgers, as well as crudités — and the emphasis is on drinks such as the Wicket, a simple mix of gin and cucumber purée. A floor below the rooftop that you see here (that bizarre orb is a UFO chair designed by Asobi — ICrave did the rest of the place), there will be a loftlike room with floor-to-ceiling windows and banquettes and another full bar. One thing: There’s no pool. But who’s to say you can’t BYO inflatable one?

More: Openings »amalia, aspen, d'or, greg brier, hell's kitchen, highbar, nightlife

NewsFeed

3/19/08

3:30 PM

Aspen, D’Or Restaurateur Brings New Rooftop to Midtown

Don't worry, it gets plenty of sunlight.Photo courtesy Down by the Hipster

A year ago, we broke news that Greg Brier of Aspen and D’Or was bringing a gigantic outdoor space to the rooftop of the former Hilton Gardens at 48th Street and Eighth Avenue. Now Down by the Hipster hits us with renderings of iCrave’s design for the 200-person rooftop (with 75-person adjoining lounge) opening in May. According to a press release, Highbar's menu will feature “award-winning cocktails” (mojito of the year?), as well as food straight off the grill. More details as we get ’em.

Hell’s Kitchen Gets Roofied [Down by the Hipster]

More: NewsFeed »aspen, d'or, greg brier, hilton gardens, midtown west, nightlife, rooftops

Celebrity Settings

3/18/08

11:00 AM

Ethan Hawke Hits Qdoba; ‘Beverly Hills 90210’ Reunion at D'Or

Clearly misses Benny's Burritos.Photo: Getty Images

Last week Todd Barry told us he was a Chipotle man and we noted that a couple of respected chefs were too — but it seems Ethan Hawke, for one, prefers naked burritos to burrito bols, if a recent sighting at Qdoba Mexican Grill is any indicator. Are notable New Yorkers embracing casual dining chains? Lizzie Grubman did take her client Tailor Made to, um, the Olive Garden…

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Neighborhood Watch

1/31/08

3:00 PM

Hot-Chocolate Frenzy in Flatiron; Know You're Eating Sperm in Midtown

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]

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NewsFeed

11/19/07

3:00 PM

Gimmicky Drink Names Reach New Nadir With the ‘Striketini’

We get pitches for preposterously named cocktails all the time, but this???

Just a quick note to let you know about a new signature cocktail being served up at the W Times Square to help tourists (and weary picketers) cope with the Broadway Strike. Available at the hotel’s Living Room Lounge and Whiskey Bar, it is made with bourbon, Grand Marnier and white cranberry juice and is dark in color as a result of the dark lights on Broadway.

This is ridiculous enough to make us pound a Gisele, made with CABANA CACHACA and being served at D’Or (are you happy Nike Communications — we finally got an excuse to mention it!).

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NewsFeed

3/15/07

4:49 PM

Owner of D’Or, Opening Tonight, Also Plotting Rooftops to Rival 230 Fifth

Basement feeling a little stuffy? Don't worry, a rooftop's coming.Photo: Courtesy of D'Or

Tonight’s launch of D’Or (pictured above), the lounge underneath the Dream Hotel’s newly opened Amalia, isn’t the most exciting thing owner Greg Brier has going. He tells us that on July 1 he’ll open a 4,000 sq. ft. rooftop on the 16th floor of the Hilton Gardens hotel on 48th Street and Eighth Avenue — a space he believes will trump 230 Fifth in size. A two-minute walk through a utility corridor and a high-speed elevator trip will lead visitors to an enclosed fifteenth-floor lounge with a glass fireplace. And the roof? “It’s going to have a Japanese garden-type feel,” Brier says, “with teak decking and little plots so people can break away from the crowd.” More than likely, he’ll ask Amalia chef Ivy Stark to consult on a menu of “real American barbecue.”