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Tavern on the Green Is Latest to Drop Wild Edibles
Posted 08/11/08 in Grub Street: NewsFeed
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Tavern on the Green Owner Vilified in Roman à Clef
Posted 07/24/08 in Grub Street: NewsFeed
An ex-assistant paints the boss in black.
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Meet the Tavern on the Green Plaintiff
Posted 07/02/08 in Grub Street: NewsFeed
A former hostess describes a vulgar, threatening workplace.
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Tavern on the Green Pays Up, Admits No Guilt
Posted 06/03/08 in Grub Street: NewsFeed
But everything's fine now, says the tourist trap!
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Tavern on the Green Pays Up; Pigfest Doesn't Run Out of Pig
Posted 06/02/08 in Grub Street: Mediavore
Plus: Daniel Boulud and Alain Ducasse's first meeting, too much money is being spent on fast food, and more in our morning roundup of news and gossip.
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Tavern on the Green Goes West; City’s Elderly Eating Well
Posted 05/08/08 in Grub Street: Mediavore
Get ready for a massive San Francisco Tavern on the Green, a former Knick wants to be a cooking-show star, and Meals on Wheels taste kind of good.
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DOA Makes You Wait Longer to Eat Frankenbeef; Find Dinner on FoodTube
Posted 01/16/08 in Grub Street: Mediavore
Though the FDA approved the sale of meat and dairy from cloned animals, the Department of Agriculture is asking farmers to postpone introducing cloned animals into the food supply until they can calm retailers and overseas trading partners. [NYT] Related: FDA to Beef Industry: Send in the Clones The list of restaurateurs interested in snatching up Tavern on the Green when its lease expires at the end of the year has expanded to include heavyweights such as Danny Meyer, Drew Nieporent, and the Ciprianis. [NYP] The Great Restaurant Critic Notebook Caper of 2008 continues! With confirmation that it belongs to neither Frank Bruni nor Danyelle "Restaurant Girl" Freeman, the search for its owner goes on. [Eater] Related: So the Critic Left Her (?) Notes. So What?
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Bloomberg Delivers Cheesecake; McDonald's Takes on Starbucks
Posted 01/07/08 in Grub Street: Mediavore
Hizzoner showed up to a political summit in Oklahoma with Junior’s cheesecake for all. [NYS] Jennifer LeRoy sees another 30 years of LeRoy ownership at Tavern on the Green, but she isn’t striking a deal with Donald Trump to keep the place. [Insatiable Critic] When world adventurer Anthony Bourdain found out that Food Network would be re-airing episodes of his series A Cook’s Tour, he was sitting by a pool in Hawaii. His reaction? “This was like being unexpectedly groped and publicly slipped the tongue by the ugliest girl at the prom.” [Anthony Bourdain’s Blog/Travel Channel]
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DOH Now Against Cats, Too; Poor Man's Guide to New Year's Eve
Posted 12/21/07 in Grub Street: Mediavore
Bodegas are keeping themselves free of vermin thanks to their trusty cats. But naturally the Health Department has to give them a hard time about it, even though they admit that the cats are doing a good job. [NYT] Running Tavern on the Green is something like running an ocean liner – an ocean liner that feeds 700,000 people a year, has a staff of over 500, and makes more than $38 million annually. [AMNY] Gordon Ramsay wants lights for his backyard soccer field for Christmas. [The Glasgow Herald]
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Gordon Ramsay So Over? Josie Smith-Malave Back in Business
Posted 09/25/07 in Grub Street: Mediavore
Aussies ask, “Has Gordon Ramsay’s gilded decade come to an end? Has the gifted chef gone off the boil?” [Sydney Morning Herald] It’s back to business for former Top-Chefer and recent anti-gay-attack victim Josie Smith-Malave; her Clinton Hill restaurant seems well on its way to serving global comfort food this fall. [Clinton Hill Blog] Initial impressions on Rickshaw Dumpling: “We enjoyed eating them, and even more, we enjoy knowing that we will file our $6 receipt for the six dumplings and be reimbursed. $1 per dumpling? Do I look like some kind of NYU kid to you?” [Eat for Victory/VV]
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Tavern on the Green Hit With Federal Discrimination Charges
Posted 09/24/07 in Grub Street: NewsFeed
Tavern on the Green just got hit with major charges — and unlike the accusations made in recent years against the likes of Jean-Georges Vongerichten and Daniel Boulud, it's not just some irate ex-employees doing the talking. It's the Feds. According to Crain's, the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission charges them with “severe and pervasive sexual, racial and national origin harassment,” and for leaning on employees who complained against it. It's a major step, and nothing the famously profitable, famously mediocre eatery can laugh off. Tavern on the Green Accused of Discrimination [Crain's NY]
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Whole Foods Is the New Pickup Scene; Ramsay Helps Ruin Another Restaurant
Posted 07/17/07 in Grub Street: Mediavore
New York’s cheesiest singles go to Whole Foods on the Bowery to pick up cage-free eggs — and each other. [NYS] Gordon Ramsay’s restaurant-rescue record takes another blow: Dillons is on the brink, and now the British restaurant “helped” by the truculent chef is going into liquidation. [Evening Telegraph] Next season’s Top Chef will take place in Chicago. [Chicago Tribune]
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Tavern on the Green’s Ronny Webb Likes to See You Smile
Posted 07/10/07 in Grub Street: Ask a Waiter
Fifty-four-year-old Ronny Webb worked at El Morocco and the Rainbow Room, eventually making $40,000 per year as a hotel-restaurant manager, before he decided to “take a step down” and pursue what he says is a less stressful existence. For the past five years, he’s been making cash money as a butler for billionaire Ron Perelman (something he’s not allowed to talk about) and as a captain at the city’s most profitable restaurant, Tavern on the Green. (Apparently, attempting to track-down 2 percent milk and off-the-menu spaghetti for Robert De Niro’s wife and kid is considered low stress.) We asked him more about this lark of a job.
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Pegu Club Shaking More Than Just Cocktails in Soho
Posted 05/23/07 in Grub Street: Neighborhood Watch
Forest Hills: The layout for Trader Joe’s coming to 90-30 Metropolitan Avenue. [Forest Hills 72] Midtown West: Sample cuisine from more than 50 restaurants including Aquavit, Buddakan, and Eleven Madison Park at tonight's Taste of the Nation at Roseland Ballroom; tickets are $200 and benefit the fight against childhood hunger. [Cakehead] Soho: Pegu Club accused of shaking down its customers by pouring drinks that haven’t been ordered. [Majikthise] South Hampton: Dune should pick up the slack where Cain left off. [Down by the Hipster] Upper West Side: The lobby lounge of the Mandarin Oriental now has a cart offering $75 flutes of Dom Perignon, but at least the price includes dried fruit. [NYS] Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe hopes to see a bidding war over Warner LeRoy’s Tavern on the Green between top “concessionaires” including Dean Poll of the Boathouse and Danny Meyer. [NYO] West Village: Awkward zoning prevents Camaje bistro on Macdougal Street from setting up outdoor seating, though it’s allowed for virtually all its dining neighbors. [NYP]
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Oh, Baby, Bay Ridge Likes It Raw
Posted 04/09/07 in Grub Street: Neighborhood Watch
Bay Ridge: People desperate for raw milk have launched a black-market dairy ring. [Brooklyn Paper] Boerum Hill: Donna da Vine garden, not being pruned, set to open April 20. [Eater] East Village: Carne Vale churrascaria has just opened an outdoor patio and started serving lighter fish options to ease anxiety over impending spandex-legging separation syndrome. [Restaurant Girl] Where will heroin enthusiasts linger once Alt coffee becomes kid-friendly Hopscotch? [Gothamist] A knife fight in front of the Bowery Hotel part of that “Old New York experience,” according to hotelier-owner Sean MacPherson. [NYM] Prospect-Lefferts-Gardens: “Whole in the wall” [sic] Lenny’s has bitten the dust. [across the park] Soho: The Neoprene booze tote at Sur La Table can keep a bottle cold for hours! [Gothamist] Upper East Side: Brian Young debuted his menu at Tavern on the Green Sunday; his à la carte creations will be available in June. [Upper East Side Informer] West Village: Tea shops, cutesy stores flourish; sex shops get no respect. [Manhattan Offender]
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‘Food & Wine’ Parties Rock; Yuppies Heart Joe Jr.’s
Posted 04/05/07 in Grub Street: Mediavore
The Food & Wine Best New Chef parties were pretty good — especially the after-party at the Spotted Pig. We wonder who that unnamed chef doing shots all night could possibly be. Are his initials M.B.? [Mouthing Off/Food & Wine] Joe Jr.’s coffee shop is becoming a cult favorite among well-heeled Manhattanites – one even rented it out for a party and put up a disco ball. [Mouthing Off/Food & Wine] Top Chef runner-up Sam Talbot to open an already trendy eatery on the Lower East Side, but his liquor-license papers seem not to be in order yet. [Eater]
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Tables Available at 5 Ninth and River Café; No Answer at 360
Posted 03/28/07 in Grub Street: Two for Eight
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: Restaurants for romance.
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Tables Available at Kittichai and Chanterelle; Mas Mostly Booked
Posted 03/14/07 in Grub Street: Two for Eight
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: Restaurants for romance. -
Trump Eyes Tavern on the Green, Tavern Blushes; Steingarten in a Bathrobe
Posted 03/13/07 in Grub Street: Mediavore
Donald Trump covets the most vulgar thing in New York that doesn’t already have his name on it: the Tavern on the Green, which has two years left on its lease. [NYP] A Zeitgeist moment: The East Village’s alt.coffee gives up the ghost, remaking itself as a “Hopscotch, a café tailored to the needs of children and families.” [Gawker] Candela owners shutting down and reopening as Irving Mill Restaurant and Tap Room in the fall, with Gramercy Tavern alum Johnny Schaeffer doing his Greenmarket thing in the kitchen. [Strong Buzz]
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Brian Young Storms Tavern on the Green; Chipotle Challenger Comes to Town
Posted 03/07/07 in Grub Street: Neighborhood Watch
Columbus Circle–Lincoln Center: Brian Young, formerly of Le Bernardin and now-closed Mainland, has been named executive chef of Tavern on the Green. [NYT] East Village: Sorry, no video: The Department of Health shuts down Blue 9 Burger, citing them for mice. [east village idiot] Midtown East: Colorado-based burrito chain Qdoba Mexican Grill opens its first NYC location on East 34th Street between Second and Third Avenues. Chipotle unphased. [NYS] Williamsburg: Too soon to start that Saint Patrick’s Day bender? Brooklyn Brewery debuts new Belgian-style ale, Brooklyn Local 1, that packs 9 percent alcohol. [The Food Section]
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