Danny Meyer’s Maialino is prepped for the pipsqueaks that visit the restaurant and his low banquettes : “…the hostess, seeing our diminished state, offered us boosters , a common request, apparently. And here, thankfully, they came in the form of plush, over-stuffed pillows instead of those plastic tubs that seem ascetic and abusive to both butt and pride.” [Ulterior Epicure]
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Getting a Boost: Danny Meyer’s Maialino is prepped for…
When Eater operatives happened upon the newly opened Five Guys Burgers & Fries at the LaGuardia Airport on Friday afternoon, it was just three days old. But the trouble had already begun. At the primo lunch hour, the lines formed both for the cashier and pick up counter while the food court rivals sat empty
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Certified Open: Five Guys Already Causing Trouble at LaGuardia Airport
Guitar aficionado Tom Colicchio is not one to pass up an opportunity to display his musical prowess.
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Eater in Aspen: And Now, Colicchio and Bastianich Covering Paul Simon
Songstress Lady Gaga has been keeping herself busy making scenes in New York. In addition to getting banned from the Yankees’ clubhouse, she chastised a fan/paparazzo at Jeffrey Chodorow’s Asia de Cuba and made a surprise cameo at the live music night at Duane Park in Tribeca.
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Going Gaga: Songstress Lady Gaga has been keeping…
Marquee and Avenue co-owner Jason Strauss spends most of his time in Las Vegas overseeing he and partner Noah Tepperberg’s desert empire. But Strauss came to New York last week and decided to pay a visit to Marquee, the pair’s first mega success that launched them into the upper echelons of the hospitality industry.
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Nightlife: Marquee Owner Still Amazed That People Go To Marquee
The documentary about restaurateur Florent Morellet is debuting later this week, but the MePa icon wants people to stop being so damn nostalgic . He calls complaints about gentrification “‘the whine of middle-class, white people’ who romanticize 1970s and early ’80s New York, when the city’s financial crisis made it cheap for creative people to live and thrive here.” He adds, ” I didn’t move here from bum-f— France to live in a city that has to be frozen at the bottom of its depression.” [NYDN]
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Florent: The documentary about restaurateur Florent Morellet…
The summer solstice is here, and the Beacon Hill Bistro in Boston is celebrating by featuring a traditional “Midsommarmiddag,” or “Midsummer Dinner” all week long, with a variety of Scandinavian dishes offered. The restaurant, which is located on Charles Street within the Beacon Hill Hotel, will feature a prix fixe menu including foods popular in Sweden, and will also offer acquavit, an alcoholic drink commonly served in Scandanavia. The Beacon Hill Bistro will also have their regular menu available during this time.
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Midsommarmiddag (Midsummer Dinner) Coming to the Beacon Hill Bistro This Week
NY Mag pens a lengthy profile on the Maine-style lobster roll trend in New York and the economic factors that fuel it.” Click over to read more about the rise of new guard seafood sandwich practitioners like Luke’s Lobster , the Red Hook Lobster Pound , and Dr.
A roast beef spot that opened this winter near Porter Square in Cambridge has closed its doors for the time being, and it is not known if/when they will open again. Several recent checks on Banjo’s Roast Beef on Mass.
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Banjo’s Roast Beef in Cambridge Closed for Now; Future Unknown
A tipster reports that Yakitori Torys , sister restaurant to Yakitori Totto and the newly opened Totto Ramen , closed over the weekend, adding, “the server claimed that they weren’t making any money and will be a ramen restaurant by next weekend.” Apparently the people of Midtown would rather slurp noodles than chew on chicken bones, because a call to sister Totto confirmed that the four year-old Japanese yakitori spot is indeed shuttered. They’re hoping to get their ramen on within the next two weeks
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The Shutter: Yakitori Torys Shutters to Become Another Ramen Joint
A new $2.5 million restaurant and nightclub that opened in May in a part of town not previously known for its nightlife is already attracting a major buzz. Each night, the club is packed with a mix of young and affluent, enjoying food and drinks in a room described as “part Beirut, part Dubai, part Miami lounge circa “Scarface,” without the cocaine.” Is it a new club in Midtown?
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Nightlife: Nightlife Finally Returns To A Place That Can Really Use It
A family-family restaurant across from Hingham Harbor was one of a number of structures on the South Shore hit by lightning during yesterday’s severe thunderstorms, though it sounds like the damage to the dining spot was relatively minor. According to The Patriot Ledger , Stars Restaurant on Route 3A (Otis Street) was struck by lightning Sunday afternoon, causing damage to their computer system
“Before the letter grades went into effect , being somebody who ate a certain end of the food chain a lot, I probably had low-level food poisoning for, you know, six years straight …And it’s been much better since then.” —Los Angeles’ Jonathan Gold on the pros and cons of the letter grading system. [WSJ]
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A culinary tour through Monrovia incorporates the best of West African cooking with traditions from the American South.
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Personal Journeys: A Return to Liberia, Experienced Through Food
Spend your next weekend in Montego Bay If you didn’t have plans for next weekend, you do now. We’ve found a weekend deal to Montego Bay , Jamaica that helps save on both flights and accommodations. Spend a few days basking in the sun, dining at Caribbean restaurants and bars, duty-free shopping, and absorbing the beautiful environment of turquoise water, sandy beaches, mountains and waterfalls
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Next Weekend Away: Jamaica
A Mexican restaurant in Quincy that has been in business for nearly 30 years is going to be opening a second location, this one being further south of Boston. According to a job posting on the Craigslist site, La Paloma is opening in the South Shore town of Kingston, where Route 3A and Route 106 meet, a short distance west of Route 3
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La Paloma Opening a Second Location in Kingston
A restaurant in the Back Bay of Boston that has been serving Southwest cuisine for many years is getting ready to shut its doors. According to a poster on the Chowhound site, the Cottonwood Cafe on Berkeley Street is going to be closing on June 30 after being in business since the early 1990s
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Cottonwood Cafe in the Back Bay to Close
A Colombian restaurant in East Boston is apparently going to be opening an adjacent butcher shop in the space where an Italian eatery used to be. According to EveryBlock Boston , a license was just issued for El Paisa Butchery, which looks like it will be located on Bennington Street next to El Paisa Restaurante, confirming what we had mentioned awhile back in an article about the closing of Carmine’s Kitchen
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El Paisa Butchery Coming to East Boston
The 2010 Taste of Stoneham is on the way, coming to the Stoneham Theatre on Main Street a week from this weekend. Taste of Stoneham will be held on Saturday, June 26, and will feature food samplings from local restaurants as well as a cash bar, live music, and raffles. Some of the restaurants participating include Felicia’s, Gaetano’s, Georgie D’s Melissa’s Main Street Bistro, Rang Indian Bistro, Sato II, Taste of Siam, and Ume Restaurant and Lounge
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Taste of Stoneham to Be Held June 26, 2010
It seems the coin toss will be the deciding factor concerning who has the advantage as Nigeria takes on Greece in day seven of the 2010 FIFA World Cup .
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Nigeria vs. Greece: The Super Eagles Take On Galanoleyki