As a booming, disembodied voice told guests at Edible Schoolyard NYC’s inaugural spring benefit to take their seats for dinner Monday night, the Transom learned that honoree Jake Gyllenhaal doesn’t have a favorite food—let alone a least favorite. “Seriously, it’s one of the areas of my life where I hold everything with love and no Read More
Jay-Z is curating a new concert festival for…Philadelphia. As New Yorkers try to rationalize this inexplicable turn of events—Jay-Z, an investor in the soon-to-be-real Brooklyn Nets, who recently played Carnegie Hall, and who could probably clean sweep the next New York City mayoral election—catering to the needs of the (ahem) sixth borough (as some would have it), Beyonce’s husband recently took the time to speak to Rolling Stone about it.
Buried at the very end interview is Jay-Z, finally bringing a nasty rumor about himself to rest. Read More
The New Yorker‘s dining issue hits newsstands today, and though most of it is behind the paywall, Lauren Collins’ lengthy piece on April Bloomfield — the kitchen master at The Spotted Pig and The Breslin — is online in full. The article is quite sumptuous to sample: As a whole, “Burger Queen” is Read More
Daniel Halpern of Ecco has bought the rights to cookbooks by two New York chefs, April Bloomfield and Andrew Carmellini, as announced today on Publishers Marketplace (subscription only). Bloomfield was represented by JJ Goode and Luke Janklow of Janklow & Nesbit, Carmellini by Gwen Hyman (his wife) and Kim Witherspoon of Inkwell Read More
When the Spotted Pig opened in 2004, it was a thunderous hit among Manhattan’s trendiest denizens. Meatpacking district revelers abandoned antiseptic clubs to crowd into a small pair of wood-plank rooms decorated with mismatched vintage fabrics, pig and mackerel mementos, and window box herbs. Even rail-thin starlets Read More
Last week Tamsin Lonsdale, founder of the upscale social networking service The Supper Club, described a recent experience at the Spotted Pig.
“We were having a very civilized dinner,” she recalled to the Transom, “and suddenly, uh, the music got cranked up, and there were 50 movers and shakers on the dance floor, and Read More
(The restaurant's score was actually 33, according to the Read More
