Coming Soon: ‘Edible Manhattan’

We’ve been longtime fans of Edible Brooklyn, a very cool magazine we wrote about a while ago. Edible Brooklyn doesn’t publish restaurant news as much as articles and essays about the life of the borough’s food culture, written by the people who love it. And now Manhattan will get the same treatment in Edible Manhattan, which will come out bi-monthly starting in the fall and is already accepting subscribers.

Posted 01/18/08 in Grub Street : NewsFeed

Tags: edible brooklyn, edible manhattan, frankies 457 spuntino, gabrielle langholtz, newsfeed

Carroll Gardens to Get ‘Fine Dining Without Being Fine Dining’

Ryan Angulo, the talented chef de cuisine who has helped Chris Santos make Stanton Social such a hit, is taking his knives and heading off to make his own show in Carroll Gardens. The as-yet-unnamed restaurant will be going in to 458 Court Street, down the street* from Frankies 457 Spuntino, and aims to serve “upscale, well-developed food that’s still kind of casual…fine dining without being fine dining,” Angulo tells us, mentioning Prune, Frankies, and San Francisco’s Zuni Café as models for the kind of thing he wants to do. “We don’t want to price anybody out. We want to make sure to get the neighborhood clientele included.” The place is looking at a possible mid-March/early-April opening. *Correction: The original version of this item said Angulo's restaurant would be across the street from Frankie's 457.

Posted 12/19/07 in Grub Street : NewsFeed

Tags: carroll gardens, chris santos, frankie's 457 spuntino, newsfeed, ryan angulo, stanton social

Writer-Rocker Darcey Steinke Downs Jell-O With Nuns

In her new memoir Easter Everywhere novelist Darcey Steinke recounts her life as a minister’s daughter, traveling the country and picking up tastes for regional dishes like fried okra. “When you get it right,” she says, “It’s like crack.” Though her Prospect Park neighborhood has yet to yield the perfect fix, she’s fond of the jerk chicken, and as a survey of her most recent week of eating reveals, she also knows where to find exceptional sauerbraten, redemptive sticky-toffee pudding, and a classic Waldorf salad with marshmallows — which she enjoyed with an order of nuns.

Posted 04/06/07 in Grub Street : The New York Diet

Tags: cafe asean, darcey steinke, fairway, frankies 457 spuntino, french roast, hope & anchor, schiller's, the new york diet, thomas beisl

Pelaccio Opens in London; Hotel Gansevoort Boycotted

Zak Pelaccio’s new London restaurant (first announced here) finally opens and issues a press release with a menu. [Snack] In a recent post, we called Michael Ruhlman a mandarin and critiqued his hauteur. Count us wrong on both counts: This response, titled “Grub Street Wankers,” and the vitriol that follows in the comment section, isn’t exactly high-minded. [Ruhlman] Related: In Defense of Rachael Ray and the Food Network [Grub Street] The big billboards erected on Hudson Street by the Hotel Gansevoort are so ugly that Pastis’ Keith McNally and 5 Ninth’s Joel Michel are refusing to take hotel reservations in protest. [NYP]

Posted 02/21/07 in Grub Street : Mediavore

Tags: 5 ninth, bacon, florence fabricant, frankie's 457 spuntino, joel michel, keith mcnally, mediavore, michael ruhlman, pastis, reservations, Zak Pelaccio