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Seth MacFarlane Set to Forever Cheapen the Dignity of The King
Does this qualify as regicide?
Posted 08/18/08 in Grub Street : NewsFeed
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Will L.A.’s Fast-Food Ban Affect Street Vendors?
The Los Angeles fast-food ban might have unintended casualties.
Posted 08/13/08 in Grub Street : NewsFeed
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Fast Food Elicits Guilty Plea; Where the Brangelina 8 Should Eat
A Bowery institution closes, teens open a coffee shop for two days, and more, in our morning news roundup.
Posted 08/08/08 in Grub Street : Mediavore
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Do Fast-food Chains Fear a Ban?
Why else would they comply with calorie posting?
Posted 08/01/08 in Grub Street : NewsFeed
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New York Food Puritans Seek Fast-food Moratorium
L.A. just passed a similar bill, and don't we want to be like L.A.?
Posted 07/31/08 in Grub Street : NewsFeed
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Boulud Makes the A-list; Blue Hill’s New Slaughterhouse
Plus Lisa's peanut-butter mashed potatoes from 'Top Chef' end up on a menu, there are some good wine books to buy for Dad, and more, in our morning digest of news and gossip.
Posted 06/06/08 in Grub Street : Mediavore
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Tavern on the Green Pays Up; Pigfest Doesn't Run Out of Pig
Plus: Daniel Boulud and Alain Ducasse's first meeting, too much money is being spent on fast food, and more in our morning roundup of news and gossip.
Posted 06/02/08 in Grub Street : Mediavore
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Denzel’s Bubbly Problem; Café Gray’s Farewell Menu
Plus the Pillsbury Doughboy hands out cake on Park Avenue, eating for free at bars around the city, and more, in our morning roundup of news and gossip.
Posted 05/29/08 in Grub Street : Mediavore
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Fast-food Menus Need Calorie Info by Monday, City Says
Calorie info is supposed to be posted on fast-food menus by Monday, but that doesn't mean it will be.
Posted 04/15/08 in Grub Street : NewsFeed
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City to Reenact Calorie-Display Rule; Bloodbath Near Spotlight Live
The city’s Board of Health is set to reenact its legally contested rule requiring all restaurants with fifteen or more eateries nationwide to post the caloric value of food items on their menus. [NYDN] Related: Fast-Food Biz Wins Fight Against City Hall Restaurants and nightclubs currently owe the city $14 million in health-code violation fines, which means that high-roller venues like the Rainbow Room can get away with stiffing the city out of $50. [NYP] Times Square’s Spotlight Live became the latest scene of club violence when one man was killed and five others stabbed there yesterday morning. [NYDN]
Posted 01/22/08 in Grub Street : Mediavore
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Sonic Gets Closer to New York, But Blue Coconut Slush Eludes Us
If you’ve been to one of Sonic Drive-In’s 3,400-odd burger joints (you know, the ones with the carhops — some of them on roller skates) and have suburban nostalgia for the chocolate shakes, cherry limeades, and belly-busting 44-ounce slushes, you’ll have to travel 100 miles before you hit the nearest location (in Pennsylvania). That will change by the end of the year, says president of Sonic Industries, Scott McLain: The chain has broken ground on its first New Jersey outpost in Waretown (about an hour and a half from the city), with more to follow. What’s more, Sonic is working to bring a location to the New York metropolitan area within two years, but the closest it will get to Manhattan is Westchester County. “I don’t really know if we’ll move into the city or not,” McLain says, but he’s open to it. It’s time to get those petitions going. Sonic [Official site]
Posted 10/19/07 in Grub Street : NewsFeed
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Fast-Food Biz Wins Fight Against City Hall
Gluttons in denial about their diet will be overjoyed to hear that a federal judge has ruled against Mayor Bloomberg’s plan to make fast-food restaurants post calorie information. (Naturally, the New York State Restaurant Association, a lobby group representing the fast-food interests, isn’t too sad about it either. ) But the reasons for the decision seem surprisingly weak.
Posted 09/11/07 in Grub Street : Beef
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High Tide for Water Prices; Yet Another BLT Opens
Ah, the joys of free-flowing water. Well, kind of free — the city water board just agreed to up water costs 11.5 percent this year, and another 11.5 percent next year. [NYP] A guide to New York restaurants that play that wonderful organ music. [Gridskipper] A stealth addition to the ever-expanding BLT empire: a BLT Steak in the Westchester Ritz-Carlton. [Westchester.com]
Posted 05/15/07 in Grub Street : Mediavore
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Weird Al Apparently Still Fat. Really, Really Fat
In our continuing quest to get you cultured and well fed (remember Jason Wishnow’s scenes of vegetable sensuality?), we offer the video of what must be the best song about food since Weird Al Yankovic’s “Eat It” or perhaps R. Kelly’s “Sex in the Kitchen.” Appropriately enough, the new contender is a Weird Al interpretation of an R. Kelly Song: “Trapped in the Drive-Thru.” If you think waiting in line for a pig’s tail and a gallon of beer at Fette Sau is harrowing, let this eleven-minute epic serve as a reminder of how much worse the burbs have it. Don’t be fooled by the lines “And now we’re finally drivin’ away / And the food is drivin’ me mad / With its intoxicating bouquet.” This one doesn’t end happily.Posted 04/05/07 in Grub Street : NewsFeed
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Filet-O-Fish Sandwich Now Twice as Delicious
There are many delicious things with which you could embellish a McDonald’s Filet-O-Fish sandwich — if your goal was to make it even more calamitous to the waistlines of the general Filet-O-Fish-loving public than it already is. A Scotch egg, a pound of bacon, or a deep-fried Snickers bar all spring to mind. But if you really wanted to go all out, if you really wanted to vex the fast-food police, what you might do is simply plop an additional Filet-O-Fish on top of the first one.
Posted 04/02/07 in Grub Street : The Underground Gourmet
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Give a Fast-Food Receipt, Get a MetroCard
The city, seeking to find out just how badly New Yorkers eat prior to implementing its new calorie-info law, is trading MetroCards for meal receipts. [Nation's Restaurant News] Akthar Nawab of E.U., Michael Anthony of Gramercy Tavern, and Chris Lee of Gilt all talk about the challenges of taking over an established restaurant (getting reviewed too soon, finding the fuse box, etc.). [NYP] The Spotted Pig’s April Bloomfield is being named Food & Wine’s Best New Chef. [NYP]
Posted 04/02/07 in Grub Street : Mediavore
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Trump Eyes Tavern on the Green, Tavern Blushes; Steingarten in a Bathrobe
Donald Trump covets the most vulgar thing in New York that doesn’t already have his name on it: the Tavern on the Green, which has two years left on its lease. [NYP] A Zeitgeist moment: The East Village’s alt.coffee gives up the ghost, remaking itself as a “Hopscotch, a café tailored to the needs of children and families.” [Gawker] Candela owners shutting down and reopening as Irving Mill Restaurant and Tap Room in the fall, with Gramercy Tavern alum Johnny Schaeffer doing his Greenmarket thing in the kitchen. [Strong Buzz]
Posted 03/13/07 in Grub Street : Mediavore
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Tourists Come Here to Eat; A-List Chefs Heading to South Beach
“Culinary tourism” is on the rise, and New York is one of the prime beneficiaries. “This is to me more interesting than museums,” says one tourist. [1010 WINS] It’s not easy for a fast-food franchisee out there, with all those germs floating around. [NYT] The upcoming South Beach Wine and Food Festival is being described as the “culinary Super Bowl.” [Miami Herald]
Posted 02/20/07 in Grub Street : Back of the House
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The Japanese Are Screaming for Krispy Kreme
Krispy Kreme may be in the midst of a sales slump, shareholder lawsuits, federal accounting probes, and a scramble to come up with a trans-fat replacement, but they can at least be happy that, according to our man in Japan, the store they opened in Tokyo last week has touched off a cross-cultural exchange unseen since Beard Papa hit the Upper West Side:
I was in Shinjuku last week. I was there just to hang out and found huge crowds of people … then I look up and there is a huge sign … Krispy Kream [sic]!! People are lined up for an hour just to get these!!!
We hear they go great with cod sperm. — Daniel Maurer Krispy Kreme JapanPosted 12/22/06 in Grub Street : NewsFeed
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