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Stephen Hanson Bought 1.5 Million Tomatoes Last Year
He says his B.R. Guest restaurants are recession proof.
Posted 07/31/08 in Grub Street : NewsFeed
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Where to Eat on Black Friday; Last-Minute Turkey Dinners
Michael Psilakis plans to open his “Dona redux,” at 58th Street between Second and Third, by early January. [Mouthing Off/Food & Wine] Related: Psilakis Seeks Site for a Late-Night Downtown Restaurant — and a New Dona Satisfying post-shopping eats are invaluable because “when you no longer feel loaded is the perfect time to get loaded.” This comprehensive list covers midtown, Herald Square, the meatpacking district, and Soho. [NYP] New tip for turkey: Carve it like a butcher, not like a chef. [NYT]
Posted 11/21/07 in Grub Street : Mediavore
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Pinkberry Domination Continues Apace; Chumley's in Trouble Again
Pinkberry’s quest for world domination becomes more tangible: Its founders have raised $27.5 million in the company’s first round of venture capital. [NYT] Related: The New Cold War: The Battle for Bleecker Street Hear the Pinkberry Jingle, Attempt to Get it Out of Your Head Chumley’s prospective opening date of October 1 has come and gone, possibly because of certain “surprises” the engineers have found, including asbestos and an eroding foundation. [NYP]
Posted 10/16/07 in Grub Street : Mediavore
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Primehouse Opening in Flatiron; Trabocchi Siphoned Former Staff to Soho
Carroll Gardens: New wine bar Black Mountain Wine House on Union Street is filled to the brim with lovely sipping ladies. [Eat for Victory/VV] Flatiron: Diddy has closed Justin’s because it’s not big enough. [NYP] Stephen Hanson’s steakhouse, Primehouse, opens Monday. [Zagat] Harlem: Fall registration is open for free proper-dining lessons at “New York City’s only tuition-free etiquette school for children,” the Development and Finishing Institute. [Uptown Flavor] Soho: New Fiamma chef Fabio Trabocchi “brought with him 12 members of the staff of Maestro, in McLean, Va., his previous employer" in order to ease his New York transition. [NYT] Upper East Side: David Burke's Hudson Valley Foie Gras ‘PB&J’ Tourchon is pushing it. [NYO] Williamsburg: The best way to be sure your beef is prime is to eat at a top steakhouse, and lucky for you, according to “Amy Rubenstein, whose family owns Peter Luger, the shortage is over.” [NYP]
Posted 09/26/07 in Grub Street : Neighborhood Watch
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B.R. Guest's New BBQ: Will Wildwood Succeed?
Last month we reported on the possibility of a new B.R. Guest BBQ restaurant on Park Avenue South, and B.R. Guest officially pooh-poohed the idea. But we trust our BBQ world sources, and we have a lot of them, so today, we've got the details. The place will in fact be in the old Barça 18 space, as we predicted, and will be called Wildwood BBQ. David Rockwell will do the interior, which will include a 75-foot-long bar and 200 seats. Our take? Though there's no doubt that B.R. Guest group knows how to run a restaurant, barbecue is not just another "concept," and corporate restaurants, with their tight financial controls, rarely produce great meat. And it's an odd place to put it, given that three of the best barbecue restaurants in New York are in the Madison Square Park–Flatiron area, in RUB, Hill Country, and Blue Smoke.
Posted 08/27/07 in Grub Street : NewsFeed
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Midwood Facing a Second DiFara Crisis As Health Department Revisits
East Village: Plans for the Bowery Hotel’s subterranean Japanese restaurant get scrapped for a spa. [Down by the Hipster] Drown your sorrows (or pickup takeout sushi) and head to Astor Wines for over 50 varieties of shochu, the Japanese alcohol that “goes down easy.” [Gridskipper] Fort Greene: The first South African restaurant in the United States, Madiba, has just been closed by the Department of Health. [VV] Long Island City: Junior’s Cheesecake and Harry’s Water Taxi Beach are among the participants in tomorrow night’s Taste of LIC to support the Chocolate Factory’s arts programs. [The Chocolate Factory] Midtown West: Starwood’s new (opening in 2010) green hotel overlooking Bryant Park will feature restaurants by Stephen Hanson. [Gothamist] Midwood: DiFara closed by the Department of Health for the second time since March. Dom, please just wear the hat. [Eater]
Posted 06/05/07 in Grub Street : Neighborhood Watch
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