One of New York’s more keenly fought food contests – the New York Wine & Food Festival’s Burger Bash – sizzled Friday night at a giant Tobacco Warehouse in a far-flung corner of Dumbo (“It’s near the F! It’s near the F!” a pr woman told us, helpfully.) The annual event features “More than 20 Read More
Star chefs—and the hungry folks who love ’em—turned out for the Chefs for Scher event at the Bowery Terrace on Monday, July 13. The grub-centric event, a benefit for the Steven Scher Memorial Scholarship for Aspiring Restaurateurs, was punctuated with fond memories of Mr. Scher, a co-founder of Main Street Restaurant Partners and influential figure Read More
“It’s very surreal,” said David Chang, the hugely hyped hotshot at the helm of Manhattan’s three Momofuku restaurants, about taking top honors as the city’s best chef at the James Beard Foundation Awards at Avery Fisher Hall on Sunday, June 8. (The ceremony was hosted by Sex and the City’s Kim Cattrall, who “flirted” awkwardly Read More
In Paris, “Bar Americain” means a place that serves liquor as well as wine and beer. So the first thing that catches your eye when you walk into celebrity chef Bobby Flay’s new restaurant is the enormous zinc bar, smack in the center of the 200-seat dining room. The cocktails here, developed by partner Laurence Read More
When the restaurant economy is good-and it’s very good indeed-culinary maternity wards overflow with the wistful, the risk-takers and, as always, the inept. This spring’s crop of new restaurants reflects these flush times in scope, number and variety. More than ever, it seems that successful restaurants are spinning off carbon copies of themselves, while others Read More
Has David Letterman killed all the lawyers?
Like Knicks seats and tables at Le Cirque, tickets to the Late Show with David Letterman have been a choice perk for select New York City law firms for a number of years. Firms secured blocks of seats from the Letterman staff and divvied them up among summer Read More
Wednesday, July 15
Every week, a hidden camera in a second-floor window on a beautiful-people street in SoHo tapes women walking by for a cable-access show called Knit Bootie . It’s compelling television. Somebody splices together the most attractive specimens, creating narrative from nothing. It’s the purest form of TV; the creator simply brings Read More
