School Lunches Go Locavore; Ed Brown Goes Fishing

Slow Food lecturers are boring, the cocktails of ‘Mad Men,’ and more, in our morning news roundup.

Posted 09/02/08 in Grub Street : Mediavore

Tags: alice waters, charcuterie, cocktails, ed brown, eighty one, lawsuits, locavore, mad men, mediavore, michael pollan, school lunches, scores, scores east, scott gold, shake shack, slow food, the shameless carnivore

LeBron James and Anna Wintour Cozy Up at Waverly; Moby Makes Out at R Bar

We weren’t surprised to read in "Page Six" today that Anna Wintour dined with LeBron James at the Waverly Inn. We passed their table on Tuesday, and when the ceilings are that low, it’s impossible to miss a six-foot-eight baller extracting himself from the center of a corner booth. James was patiently sitting next to the bathroom when we emerged, causing our waiter to remark, “You made LeBron James wait!” We couldn’t tell whether he was chastising us or congratulating us for no doubt costing the man a Benjamin of his time, but either way we felt a sense of accomplishment unknown since Alex Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand queued up behind us at the Spotted Pig. The rest of this week’s sightings are heavy on the PDA.

Posted 03/06/08 in Grub Street : Celebrity Settings

Tags: aleo, Balthazar, Benjamin steak house, bouchon bakery, Celebrity Settings, del posto, gottino, Johnny utah’s, la esquina, la grainne, pershing square, r bar, ray’s pizza, rose bar, sarabeth’s, scores east, serafina, socialista, spotted pig, suzie wong, time hotel, vegetarian, waverly inn, whole foods

Jennifer Garner Likes the Food at Fiamma More than Padma Did

The week’s most exciting celebrity sighting was that of beer-sippin’ McLovin at Diner. No other celebs were busted getting their underage drink on, but there were other surprises: Rachael Ray rolled into the Orchard with a posse bigger than Diddy’s, and Jennifer Garner liked the food at Fiamma so much she slipped into the kitchen to beg Fabio Trabocchi for recipes. We figure that makes up for supposedly getting dissed by Padma Lakshmi a couple weeks ago. (And yes, there a Padma sighting this week, too…)

Posted 01/10/08 in Grub Street : Celebrity Settings

Tags: 55 wall street cipriani club, bone lick park, bowery hotel, cafe el portal, cafe luxemburg, Celebrity Settings, coffee shop, da silvano, da tommaso, extra virgin, fiamma, gansevoort hotel, gemma, headquarters, jane, kobe club, liquiteria, mandoo, michael's, nizza, pastis, pink elephant, schiller's, scores east, second avenue deli, the orchard, the plumm, veselka