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Colin Alevras Makes Cuban Moves; BBQ Truck Welcome on Beer Island
Asiate chef brings dumplings and shaved ice to Carroll Gardens, and a Shake Shack versus West Coast burger comparison.
Posted 06/24/08 in Grub Street : Neighborhood Watch
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Sweet Melissa Brings Specialty Sundaes to Cobble Hill; Tasting Room on Last Breath
Where to sample a whole new world of frozen-yogurt flavors in the West Village, and where to find free burgers and beer in Astoria, in today's neighborhood food news.
Posted 06/02/08 in Grub Street : Neighborhood Watch
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Tables Available at Rose Water; Barbuto and Blue Hill Mostly Booked
It's 4 p.m., and that means it's time to play Two for Eight. Today: Haute Barnyard.
Posted 04/17/08 in Grub Street : Two for Eight
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Beard Awards Get ‘Sex’y; Pizza.com Selling for $2.6 Mil
A Sex and the City star will host the James Beard Awards, the domain pizza.com is selling for over $2.6 million, and the Patsy's v. Patsy's trial rages on.
Posted 04/03/08 in Grub Street : Mediavore
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Tables Available at Telepan and Cookshop; Blue Hill Mostly Booked
It's 4 p.m., and that means it's time to play Two for Eight. Today: Haute Barnyard.
Posted 04/01/08 in Grub Street : Two for Eight
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Tables Available at Savoy and BLT Market; Barbuto and Blue Hill Fully Booked
It’s 4 p.m., and that means it’s time to play Two for Eight. We just asked ten restaurants the best time they can squeeze a couple in for dinner; you need only make your chosen reservation. (As always, we make the calls, but don’t guarantee the results.) Today: Haute Barnyard destinations.
Posted 03/14/08 in Grub Street : Two for Eight
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Department of Agriculture Sued Over Beef; Skip Wine Pairings in Top Restaurants
The Humane Society filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against the Agriculture Department, alleging the bureau has created a legal loophole that consistently permits potentially sick cows to enter the food supply. [NYT] The City Council’s bill to place more fruit-and-vegetable street vendors in poor neighborhoods could hurt business for grocery stores and bodegas in those neighborhoods. [NYT] Even with a reservation, dining at hot spots in L.A. can be just as bad, if not worse, than in New York. [Diner’s Journal/NYT]
Posted 02/29/08 in Grub Street : Mediavore
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Tables Available at Barbuto and the Tasting Room; Blue Hill Mostly Booked
It’s 4 p.m., and that means it’s time to play Two for Eight. We just asked ten restaurants the best time they can squeeze a couple in for dinner; you need only make your chosen reservation. (As always, we make the calls but don’t guarantee the results.) Today: Haute Barnyard destinations.
Posted 02/27/08 in Grub Street : Two for Eight
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Tables Available at Rose Water and Telepan; Esca Mostly Booked
It’s 4 p.m., and that means it’s time to play Two for Eight. We just asked ten restaurants the best time they can squeeze a couple in for dinner; you need only make your chosen reservation. (As always, we make the calls but don’t guarantee the results.) Today: Haute Barnyard destinations.Posted 01/28/08 in Grub Street : Two for Eight
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Tables Available at Esca; BLT Market Fully Booked
It’s 4 p.m., and that means it’s time to play Two for Eight. We just asked ten restaurants the best time they can squeeze a couple in for dinner; you need only make your chosen reservation. (As always, we make the calls but don’t guarantee the results.) Today: Haute Barnyard destinations.Posted 12/13/07 in Grub Street : Two for Eight
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Tables Available at Rose Water and the Tasting Room; Blue Hill Mostly Booked
It’s 4 p.m., and that means it’s time to play Two for Eight. We just asked some restaurants the best time they can squeeze a couple in for dinner; you need only make your chosen reservation. (As always, we make the calls but don’t guarantee the results.) Today: Haute Barnyard destinations.Posted 10/18/07 in Grub Street : Two for Eight
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Jonathan White of the Tasting Room Loves His Weeds
Jonathan White was a server at Perry Street before he started work at the Tasting Room last year, when the Haute Barnyard fixture moved to its larger location. “The main reason,” White says of his job change, “was to get into that relaxed environment where you have more autonomy and you can interact with the guests” — to the point, apparently, where they feel comfortable telling him he looks like Fidel Castro (he’s also gotten Lenin, Chekhov, and Shakespeare). We asked White (who is actually a writer) to give us just a little taste of his day job.
Posted 06/12/07 in Grub Street : Ask a Waiter
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Tippling and Tinkling at the Tasting Room Café
The Tasting Room may have moved to bigger digs, but its venerable espresso machine remains at its old location, which was rechristened the Tasting Room Wine Bar & Café in February. It’s unlikely that the best espresso in the city will do Starbucks-style damage, but just in case, we sussed out the restrooms.
Posted 04/13/07 in Grub Street : Restroom Report
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It’s Alive! The Tasting Room’s Kimchee-and-Cheese Sandwich
When Slow Food practitioner Colin Alevras, the chef-owner of the Tasting Room and as familiar a Greenmarket presence as corn in August, sets out to make a cheese sandwich for his new Tasting Room Wine Bar & Café, you don’t expect him to slap together some Kraft singles between two slices of Pepperidge Farm whole wheat and call it a day. No, what you expect is great, local ingredients, cleverly combined. What you expect is what our colleague, Adam Platt, would undoubtedly call a sandwich conceived and crafted in the Haute Barnyard style.
Posted 02/20/07 in Grub Street : The Underground Gourmet
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Tables Open at Cookshop and Savoy; Blue Hill Mostly Booked
It's 4 p.m., and that means it's time to play Two for Eight. We just asked ten restaurants the best time they can squeeze a couple in for dinner; you need only make your chosen reservation. (As always, we make the calls but don't guarantee the results.) Today: Haute Barnyard.Posted 10/09/06 in Grub Street : Two for Eight
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Chef Goes From ‘Gag’ to Great
This week, the food scribes turned in more raves than rants. Naturally, we lead with a rant. • Frank Bruni, bucking the beau monde and betting odds, comes down with both feet on Freemans, the hipster hideaway beloved by downtown boulevardiers. (NYT)
Posted 09/21/06 in Grub Street : The Other Critics
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