D’Amico Coffee, the 64-year-old Brooklyn family-owned grocery that has been grinding its own beans since it was founded in 1948, has been forced to change its operations because some new neighborhood residents who hate the way coffee smells keep calling the fire department on the store.
That’s right….Carroll Gardens is officially the worst. See below for the new sign on the Court St. location: Read More
Manganaro’s Grosseria Italiana, the venerable Ninth Avenue sandwich shop, is serving up its last sub today, according to DNAInfo, ending a long-running feud with Manganaro’s Hero Boy next door. The closing was first reported by Vanishing New York. The shops are owned by different branches of the Dell’Orto clan, who have not been on speaking terms for years.
The news comes almost a full year after the Wall Street Journal prematurely reported the news. Read More
Schweddy Balls, a new Ben and Jerry’s flavor that actually sounds pretty unpalatable, is coming under some heavy fire from a group called One Million Moms, for its “vulgar new flavor.” To be fair, it’s just the name that sounds gross, right? Not the flavor?
Well, OMM is associated with right-wing Christian group the American Family Association, which would obviously have a problem with a flavor based on a Saturday Night Live sketch based on Alec Baldwin and NPR. This group also has a petition boycotting just about every other food/apparel/entertainment item on the market. Read More
Josh Ozersky is a food critic for Time magazine, or something like that.
Yesterday the Voice‘s food writer Robert Sietsema wrote an open letter to Mr. Ozersky, criticizing him for his latest column about the food at his wedding — lasagna and cake provided by celebrity chefs that the groom couldn’t Read More
West Village resident Anna Wintour is reportedly “warning” entrepreneur Serge Becker from throwing parties in the construction zone that will soon become his new restaurant located near her home, according to PX This (via Grubstreet.) The restaurant will be Caribbean and will serve jerk chicken!
Grub Street speculates it Read More
