Cocktails Go Molecular; Hung Going to Bocuse d’Or?

Plus celebrity-chef cookware tested, a new Water Taxi Beach–like space in Red Hook, and more, in our morning news roundup.

Posted 06/20/08 in Grub Street : Mediavore

Tags: bocuse d'or, burger king, cheyenne diner, hung huynh, john delucie, mediavore, pm, red hook, room service, stephanie izard, top chef, truffles, wagyu, water taxi beach, waverly inn

City Restaurant School in Session; Pickle Day a Big Hit

Want to open a restaurant? The city is still happy to show you how. [Newsday] Visitors to International Pickle Day on Orchard Street yesterday consumed an estimated 50,000 pickles. [amNY] The GM for the Lever House Restaurant Group married freelance writer at Blue Hill at Stone Barns this weekend. [NYT]

Posted 09/17/07 in Grub Street : Mediavore

Tags: blue hill at stone barns, ed levine, kobe beef, la bocca de bacco, lower east side, mediavore, restaurant boot camp, trump vodka, wagyu

Resolutions for the Year of the Pig

Those of us who inhale large amounts of food for a living tend to make new resolutions not just on a yearly basis, but month to month, week to week, even day to day. But since 2007 will soon be celebrated by Chinese astrologers, and fatso gourmands the world over, as the Year of the Pig, the Gobbler has resolved to make himself a special list. It does not take effect, for the record, until February 18, the beginning of the Chinese Lunar New Year.

Posted 01/03/07 in Grub Street : The Gobbler

Tags: adam platt, the gobbler, wagyu

A Beef Benefit With Heart

Now here's an event the city's carnescenti can get behind: St. Francis' Big Red, a meat-and-wine feast to be held Monday night at the Westside Loft. The event benefits educational programs of the New York chapter of the American Institute of Wine and Food and costs $100 for AIWF members ($150 for nonmembers). But if buy your tickets over the phone and mention Grub Street, $50 will come off the top. Among the bovine highlights will be Wagyu skirt steak, courtesy of Craftsteak; mustard-roasted beef-short-rib salad, via Porter House New York; and smoked prime filet mignon, from Keens Steakhouse. Wines, which will be poured in abundance, are by St. Francis Winery in Sonoma; cookout guru Elizabeth Karmel will give a grilling demonstration; and a five-night trip to Antigua will be raffled off. Read more at the St. Francis' Big Red Website.

Posted 10/20/06 in Grub Street : Foodievents

Tags: american institute of wine and food, antigua, craftsteak, elizabeth karmel, foodievents, keens, porter house new york, sonoma, st. francis winery, wagyu, westside loft