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Bars and Restaurants Are Pushing Back Against the SLA Stronger enforcement creates new headaches for operators.
By Chris Crowley
Eataly’s Wine Shop Makes a Triumphant Return The celebration includes free glasses of sparkling wine tonight.
By Hugh Merwin
BYOBabbo: Batali and Bastianich Restos May Lose Liquor Licenses The SLA says it has to do with something called “interlocking interest.”
By Hugh Merwin
Oyster Saloon Under Brewster Carriage House Should Open ‘Before The Nolita bi-level bivalve joint is moving forward despite a few hurdles.
By Mary Reinholz
SLA Cuts Off Gin Palace’s Cocktails on Tap The SLA is decidedly not into the boozy trend that is cocktails on draft.
By Jenny Miller
Menu Changes
Jan. 4, 2012
Beer Table to Offer Lunch and Brunch in Lieu of Beer (Temporarily, Anyway) The Brooklyn beer destination is revamping its food offerings while it works out a paperwork issue with the SLA.
By Alan Sytsma
Community Boards
Oct. 12, 2011
Heathers Will Live On! The SLA renewed the bar’s liquor license.
By Jenny Miller
Community Boards
June 27, 2011
By Mary Reinholz
SLA’s Latest Self-Improvement Plan: Outsourcing! Can Wells Fargo help the State Liquor Authority?
By Daniel Maurer
Touch Is Under SLA’s Thumb The nightclub’s name seems ironic in light of a recent SLA closing.
By Daniel Maurer
SLA Humbly Asks Tech Nerds to Remove Its Shortcomings The latest in the SLA’s twelve-step path to recovery.
By Daniel Maurer
Gordon Ramsay Stays Out of His Kitchens; $1 Breakfasts at McDonald’s Plus: Costco’s profits are up, street-cart self defense, and more in our daily news roundup.
By Alexandra Vallis
Jews Booze News
Dec. 10, 2009
La Goulue Gets New Location, New SLA Problems The UES haunt is moving to a spot just across the street from a synagogue, which poses a liquor-license problem.
By Beth Landman
SLA Speeds Up Liquor-License Process Ahead of Scathing Report A state commission calls for changes at the State Liquor Authority.
By Daniel Maurer
Community Relations
Sept. 21, 2009
By Daniel Maurer
Citizens on Patrol
Aug. 3, 2009
How to Complain Tips and tricks for keeping New York’s hottest new gastrolounge off your block.
By Ben Leventhal
Community Boards
July 15, 2009
CB2 Smiles on Campanale, Hanson, Bradley, and Guarnaschelli Will Guarnaschelli actually be cooking in Butter’s next one, or is it another 1Oak?
By Daniel Maurer
Bars Fined for Cheap Booze; Ruth Madoff Clips Coupons at CPK Plus: New York’s annual herring festival, and Spike Mendelsohn checks out the New York pizza scene, all in our morning news roundup.
By Leila Cohan-Miccio
To BYOB or Not to BYOB? That Is the Question Are restaurants really heeding the SLA’s word?
By Daniel Maurer
Buzzkill: SLA Nips Emporio’s BYOB in the Bud Even after a bribery raid, the SLA still has time to crack down on DIYers.
By Daniel Maurer
Crooked Reign
Apr. 8, 2009
SLA Offices Raided on Suspicion of Bribery Will this make it easier for restaurants to score liquor licenses quickly?
By Daniel Maurer
Temporary BYO Spots in Danger? A friendly reminder about the law from the State Liquor Authority.
By Alexandra Vallis
Community Boards
Dec. 5, 2008
Tepperberg Will Go Ahead With New Lounge The Marquee man won’t let the Community Board’s disapproval stop him.
By Daniel Maurer
Cipriani Aide Gone Does it have something to do with pressure he’s accused of putting on the SLA regarding Cipriani’s liquor license?
By Daniel Maurer
Liquor Supply
Dec. 3, 2008
Mercat Gets Booze One of our favorite spots for an Estrella, Mercat, may soon become one of our favorite spots for hard liquor, baby!
By Daniel Maurer
Flippin’ Awesome Death & Co. releases its flip-heavy fall drinks menu.
By Daniel Maurer
Politics As Usual
Nov. 24, 2008
Whistle-blowing The head of the SLA says a Paterson aide tried to pressure him into voting for Cipriani’s liquor-license renewal.
By Daniel Maurer
Bars Won’t Be Left High and Dry on New Year’s New SLA rules threatened to close bars early this year, but it looks like the party will go on.
By Daniel Maurer
Manhattan’s Most Blatantly Illegal Club Is Definitely Gone for Good The State Liquor Authority has put its final kiss of death on a Midtown West bastion of sleaze.
By Daniel Maurer
SLA Cracks Down on New Year’s Eve; Eat Nantucket Bay Scallops Plus: Flushing: the city’s greatest Chinatown, and a fast-food taste test, all in our morning news roundup.
By Leila Cohan-Miccio
Community Bored
Sept. 19, 2008
By Daniel Maurer
ranters and ravers
Aug. 13, 2008
(Some of) The Critics Love Tom Cruise in ‘Tropic Thunder’ We’ve taken the liberty of preparing Tom Cruise’s For Your Consideration ad.
Cuozzo: Losing Cipriani a ‘Calamity’ for New York Misplaced fears over the Cipriani’s impending doom.
Ciprianis May Lose Their Liquor License, Finally The Ciprianis’ nine lives at the SLA may have run out.
Back of the House
Mar. 25, 2008
David Bouley Tries to End-run His Foes David Bouley isn’t throwing in the towel quite yet in his struggle to get a liquor license for Brushstrokes, his new Japanese restaurant, Eater reports.
David Bouley Stymied by Community Board 1 in Move That’s Increasingly Common As Grub readers know, community-board-meeting shitshows end up determining what you eat, drink, and, in the case of the abandoned Forty Deuce space (which will now house Chris Eddy’s sushi spot), what sort of celebs and semi-nudity you may or may not be able to feast your eyes upon on a Monday night. Consider the case of recently opened Mercury Dime, which wanted wine, but ended up serving coffee. Or the plight of Death & Co., which now has to close at midnight and may end up gone for good. Or David Bouley’s attempt to open Brushstrokes, which Eater reports was again stymied by Community Board 1 last night, though Bouley will have one more chance to plead his case later this month.
Death & Co. Says It Has at Least Four Months, Cops Pay a Visit A reader who went to Death & Co. on Saturday for a simple Bitter French wrote to tell us that she was treated to a real-live episode of Law & Order when she rolled up to the bar and found a police van parked outside. Something to do with the State Liquor Authority’s efforts to kibosh the place?