Barney Greengrass Slashes Prices; Kuma Inn Coming to Fort Greene

Painfully hip doughnuts and Bruni's nice deed of the day, in today's neighborhood food news.

Posted 06/11/08 in Grub Street : Neighborhood Watch

Tags: back forty, barney greengrass, beacon, dell'anima, east village, fort greene, kuma inn, midtown west, neighborhood watch, ottomanelli, south harlem, upper west side, waldy malouf, west village, williams

Kuma Inn Owner to Cook in Harlem; Where to Find House-Made Soda Pop

When the Smoke Joint will open its next spot and where to find all-Spanish wine lists, in today's neighborhood food news.

Posted 06/04/08 in Grub Street : Neighborhood Watch

Tags: bedford-stuyvesant, broadway east, carroll gardens, harlem, kuma inn, lower east side, marco polo ristorante, midtown east, neighborhood watch, peaches market, smoke joint, solera, talay

Where Padma Eats Cheap in New York

Tangy Tart Hot & Sweet. That’s the name of model turned Top Chef dictatress Padma Lakshmi’s new cookbook, and that’s just how she behaved before swooning fans last night at her Strand book signing. After donning “serious” glasses to read food-related mini-memoirs from the book, she told the crowd that saying “Please pack your knives and go” to Top Chef’s weekly loser was “the hardest part of my job” … and divulged that men often ask her to say it to them in a dominatrix-y sort of way. (“It creeps me out!” she insisted.) She said the show had knocked down any remaining foodie limits she might have had: “I’ll put anything in my mouth once.” Oh, Padma!

Posted 11/20/07 in Grub Street : Click and Save

Tags: Click and Save, kalustyan, kuma inn, padma lakshmi, saravana, top chef, two boots, vegetarian dim sum house, vezzo