Right this way, Mr. Michaels.Photo: Google Maps
Adam at the Waverly Inn [Maroon 5 blog]
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Is Waverly Inn’s Back Entrance for the VIP or the VIPuh-Lease?
Minetta Tavern Will Close for McNally Makeover May 6
The more things change…Photo: Mike Rogers
Related: McNally Plans to Frenchify Minetta Tavern, Assures CB It's No Big Deal
Andres Glasner of Waverly Inn Highly Recommends Siberia
"They cut us off because we’re shaving so many truffles."Photo: Melissa Hom
Calorie Law Doomed?; Colicchio Hasn't Been to Ko Either
• The very study that was used by the Health Department to crusade for mandatory calorie posting in food chains may now be used by defense lawyers to undermine the law’s future. [NYS]
• Some Lower East Siders are not stoked about Bruce Willis opening the Bowery Wine Company, so they’re going to buy a pig, name it Bruce, and then eat it. [NYP]
• Wine bars are everywhere, and, thankfully, they’re a lot less stuffy than they used to be. [NYT]
John DeLucie Says the Waverly Inn's Menu Is Twenty Years Old
Gothamist interviews John DeLucie today and learns how he went from being a miserable insurance-firm recruiter to becoming the chef at the Waverly Inn and selling his memoir to the powerful food-book editor Dan Halpern. DeLucie says he wishes his biscuits got more attention (okay, they’re good) and explains why the Waverly’s menu is so traditional:
Bye-bye, Bottled Water; Cheyenne Diner Closed
• Au revoir, Evian: Restaurants like Gemma and the Waverly Inn — not to mention banks, hotels, and just about everyone else — are banning bottled water. [NYP]
Related: Quenching an Ecofriendly Thirst [NYM]
• Gossip columnist Cindy Adams appeared in court on Friday as a witness in the Patsy’s-vs.-Patsy’s trial to pledge her loyalty to the midtown restaurant. [NYP]
• The Cheyenne Diner closed last night, with some of its most loyal customers sitting down for a nostalgic last meal. [NYDN]
Related: Pour One Out (a Milk Shake, That Is) for the Cheyenne
Waverly Inn Is Becoming a Barrel of Laughs
Laugh InnPhoto: Melissa Hom
Gordon Ramsay's Flaws Are Not His Own; Cockroach Drops In at Waverly
• Notoriously hot-headed Gordon Ramsay claims he doesn’t like to swear and blames his potty mouth on the industry: “[A]ny chef would be a hypocrite if they didn’t admit to swearing in the kitchen.” [NYDN]
• A cockroach supposedly fell on a Brazilian C-lister’s head the other night at the Waverly Inn, but the restaurant suspects the story may have been a ploy to get a better table. By the Brazilian, not the roach. [NYP]
• An economic downturn doesn’t mean tough restaurant reservations will be any easier to score, and if restaurateurs follow Drew Nieporent’s lead, entrée prices won’t be declining. [NYT]
Taste a Whole Lot of Wine Tonight; Thai Red Bull Firing Up Elmhurst
Greenwich Village: If you can finish a "Can you take the heat?" tasting menu (which gets spicier with each course) on March 15 at Thai restaurant Rhong-Tiam on La Guardia Place, the chef will give you dinner for two at a new restaurant he’s opening called Kurve. [Grub Street]
Elmhurst: You can find "those scary-looking little bottles of Thai Red Bull" at Sugar Club, a little Thai grocery and video store at 81-20 Broadway. (They have curry pastes, too.) [Gothamist]
Hell’s Kitchen: The city’s first Wine Expo will be open tonight and tomorrow afternoon at the Javits Center; get excited about seminars on Argentine Malbecs (oh, and 600 WINES to sample). [New York Wine Expo]
Midtown East: Construction seems under way for the Times-announced first U.S. outlet of Brussels-based chain Rouge Tomate. [Eater]
West Village: The Waverly Inn has a secret cocktail on its menu, and they won’t tell you what’s in it. But maybe that’s why LeBron really wanted to go to the bathroom. [Down by the Hipster]
LeBron James and Anna Wintour Cozy Up at Waverly; Moby Makes Out at R Bar
Courtside at the game?Photo Illustration: Getty Images, johnnyz's flickr
Kobe Dines on Kobe at Kobe; Nobu Gives Manning a Standing O
Fashion Week brought the usual celebrity infestation to town last week for glitzy after-parties, but we’ve already covered those. The real question is, where did the “normals” catch a bite? And of course by normals we mean billionaires, Nobel Prize winners, and Super Bowl champs, all of whom made the scene this week.
Padma Wants to Be a Human Fondue Stick, Poses for Padmarazzi
Padma outside of the Inn.Photo: WENN
Padma Lakshmi in the Nude [F-listed]
"Top Chef" Tap Dance [TMZ]
Mmmm ... Padma Lakshmi Buys in East Village for $1.65 M., Replaces Fifth Avenue-Bound Parker Posey [NYO]
Waverly Inn Eclipses Da Silvano in Press, But Blog Still a Snooze
Da Silvano, eat my dust.Photo: Getty Images
Ye Waverly Blog: The Spanish Visitor [Ye Waverly Blog/VF]
Graydon Carter: Restaurant Promoter [Gawker]
Is Graydon Carter’s Cachet Depleted? [Gawker]
Vanity Flair [Guardian]
What Happens at the Waverly Inn Stays on the Waverly Inn's New Blog!
When chef John DeLucie sold his memoir, we wondered whether the secrets of the Waverly Inn weren’t all being saved for a book. It turns out they were being saved for a blog — oh yes, Vanity Fair’s site has launched a chronicle of the goings-on at the Waverly, and though there’s a cloying Metropolitan Diary tone to anecdotes about the restaurant’s “manager and moat-minder” Emil Varda returning $100 bribes and “cougar lean maitre d’” Larry Poston fretting over a no-show pregnant diva, the voyeur in us appreciates the story about an impromptu knife juggler getting depantsed in the dining room. (It's better than the musings of, say, the Union Square Hospitality Group newsletter — Danny Meyer likes Meyer lemons!) But a note to the anonymous author: Bragging about having “a cosmetics tycoon, a Nascar champion, and a renowned humorist” on the books ain’t going to cut it. Name some names!
Ye Waverly Blog [VF]
City to Reenact Calorie-Display Rule; Bloodbath Near Spotlight Live
The city’s Board of Health is set to reenact its legally contested rule requiring all restaurants with fifteen or more eateries nationwide to post the caloric value of food items on their menus. [NYDN]
Related: Fast-Food Biz Wins Fight Against City Hall
Restaurants and nightclubs currently owe the city $14 million in health-code violation fines, which means that high-roller venues like the Rainbow Room can get away with stiffing the city out of $50. [NYP]
Times Square’s Spotlight Live became the latest scene of club violence when one man was killed and five others stabbed there yesterday morning. [NYDN]
Zagat Empire for Sale; New Low-Cal Girl Scout Cookies
The Zagat family has put their empire of burgundy books on the market, with Goldman Sachs handling the search for a buyer who will have to drop at least $200 million for the acquisition. [NYT]
Stereo, the club outside which a patron was shot last week, closed after a weekend police raid. [NYDN]
Howie Mandel’s mention of the Waverly Inn on Live With Regis & Kelly made Graydon Carter’s restaurant a highly searched Google item. [Gawker]
Popeyes Brings Chicken and Biscuits Shrine to Chinatown
These floral arrangements scream "fried chicken joint."Photo: Daniel Maurer
Meatpacking Moguls Remm, Birnbaum, and Rabin on How to Be Cool
Tenjune owners relax with Dave Matthews.Photo: WireImage
Ben Stiller Crashes a Party at Fiamma, Penélope Cruz Makes Out at Socialista
She only got in because she knows Javier Bardem.Photo: WireImages
No Plaza for Graydon; Mr. Rachael Ray Drops $35K for Lunchbox
Graydon Carter won’t be taking over the Plaza’s Oak Room, so you’ll still have to head downtown to the Waverly Inn for that truffled macaroni and cheese. [NYP]
Jean-Georges Vongerichten seeks the elusive fifth taste by serving “umami bombs” at his restaurants. [WSJ]
Related: Waiter, There’s a Fifth Element in My Soup
It’s possible that locally grown products have a comparable or even greater carbon footprint than food that travels long distances, so you can stop patting yourself on the back for being a greenmarket fanatic. [NYT]
Related: Local Schmocal [NYM]
Jenna Jameson Does Chinatown; Nobu's Fish Not That Exclusive
Jenna “ex-porn honey-turned-businesswoman” Jameson and Heatherette designer Richie Rich plan to open a nightclub/clothing shop in Chinatown next year called the General Store. [NYP]
Part-owner of the Waverly Inn and Maritime Hotel Eric Goode enjoys retreating to small-town Ojai in California. [NYT]
Nobu executive chef Mark Edwards reveals not only that the restaurant’s infamous black cod is actually sablefish (which is so not endangered), but also that he can’t stand the dish anymore after tasting it day after day. [Bloomberg]
Have White Truffles Finally Gone Too Far?
You can either have the bagel, or pay your rent.Photo: uk.reuters.com
Waverly Inn Chef John DeLucie to Publish Tell-All
From toque to bard.Photo: Patrick McMullan
Chef at New York's The Waverly Inn John DeLucie's THE HUNGER, a la Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential, [sold] to Dan Halpern and Emily Takoudes at Ecco, for publication in Spring 2009, by Rebecca Oliver and Richard Abate at Endeavor (NA).
Another Look at Bar Boulud
David Bouley is expanding his Tribeca empire with “an upscale Japanese-themed restaurant called Brushstrokes” which will take over the soon-to-be-former Delphi space. [NYS]
Gael Greene was on hand for last night’s first taste of Bar Boulud even though the opening has been pushed back a month or so. [Food Writer’s Diary/Nation's Restaurant News]
Related: Exclusive: Feast Your Eyes on Bar Boulud, Coming in November
The next Next Iron Chef challenge is “cooking gourmet airline food with all the constraints of airline galleys. Holy smokes. It’s the exact same challenge as Top Chef.” [Serious Eats]
Single Girl Imogen Lloyd Webber Hops Between the Waverly and Beatrice Inns
Note: Cupcake not actual size, or edible.Photo: Melissa Hom
Vive Les Classiques at Payard on the UES; Snorting Not a Problem at the Waverly Inn
Dumbo: Pie Social! This Sunday at Bubby's! Noon to 3 p.m. [Dumbo NYC]
East Village: Mo Pitkin’s gives up the ghost October 20. [Eater]
Greenwich Village: One of the best places to get risotto in the city is … surprise! Risotteria. [amNY]
Meatpacking District: The first rule of Clubland: "You must bring something to the party … Good looks, money, personality, or women." [NYDN]
Upper East Side: Payard chef Philippe Bertineau is resurrecting classics like bouillabaisse and crispy pig’s feet for the restaurant’s tenth anniversary. [Restaurant Girl]
West Village: A Radar mole tests the cocaine limits of popular nightspots and "here he is at Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter’s Waverly Inn, where it is apparently completely okay to get your snort on." [Radar via Gawker]
Butter's Richie Akiva Dines With Puffy, Cooks for the ‘Wifey’
Richie Akiva dines with his dog, Meatball, at Butter.Photo: Melissa Hom
Kyotofu South; Soup Nazi Not Feeling the Love Out of N.Y.
Kyotofu really is expanding downtown with a second outlet that should be completed by next summer. In the meantime, its delicate Japanese treats will also be available at a new midtown tea shop opening this month. [Mouthing Off/Food & Wine]
The Bleecker Street Magnolia Bakery has renewed its lease for another ten years. [Eater]
CJ continues to fantasize openly about cooking Padma breakfast. [Eater LA]
Related: ‘Top Chef’ Non-Winner CJ on the Broccolini Backstory, and Why Hung's Food Is Soulless
Is Southern Hospitality Really the New Waverly Inn?
It's Bill and Oprah and Bono and Bobby, all at Southern Hospitality!Photos: Dani