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No No Naan: Tabla to Close

And a chill goes through the town.

Danny Meyer’s Union Square Hospitality Group just announced that Tabla, a 12-year veteran of the Madison Square neighborhood, will close at year-end.

The restaurant, in the same building as Meyer’s Eleven Madison, led the “upscale Indian” trend way back.

Famous for its breads and its noise (a circular Read More

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Party at Batali Superstore Draws Hagar, Hordes

Mario Batali has achieved true success as a chef: Now he (or his sous chefs) don’t even have to cook anything for him to make money.

The jovial red-haired fellow opened his 42,500-square-foot Piedmontese retail extravaganza – selling everything from veggies to elegant water pitchers of Italian blown glass — for a preview last night. Read More

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The Sandwich King Packs Meat

NYC’s Wine & Food Festival is aiming this year to “Celebrate the charm of the Meatpacking District,” which we’re not quite sure it has, and promised that a new event to be held there over Columbus Day weekend will crown New York’s “Sandwich King.”

All told, 40 of the events in the annual chowdown’s four-day Read More

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Danny Meyer Eats Lower Manhattan

The culturally (and culinarily) bereft neighborhood of Battery Park City gets some food cred next year as Danny Meyer announced plans to open yet another Shake Shack in the Wall Street-y area, plus a Blue Smoke and a “yet-to-be-named” fine dining establishment.

This is the 12,000 fifth Shake Shake for Manhattan, joining the Madison Square Read More