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Welcome to Eater’s column, Decanted, in which WineChap’s Talia Baiocchi guides us through the treacherous world of New York wine lists. Today: Franny’s . From the now legendary bivalve pizza to the rotating roster of pastas, house-cured meats, and veggie-centric starters, Franny’s has not only gained a 4-year allegiance from everyone within a 10-block radius, but it’s also inspired pilgrimages from as far away as Manhattan Island (even Tribeca!).

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Decanted: Franny’s Reveals Italy’s Nether Regions

Over at Eater National, Joshua David Stein has an excellent interview with Alain Ducasse . Do click over to hear the chef ruminate on the projects that didn’t work in New York, the rise of the Food Network, and the challenges of opening up so many restaurants all around the world.

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Eaterrogations: Over at Eater National, Joshua David…

Four months after a devastating fire shuttered Williamsburg upstart The Brooklyn Star for the foreseeable future, things are looking up. A word from a tipster: “Hey guys, I live in the neighborhood and passed by The Brooklyn Star tonight and the gates were open! I haven’t see the front gate open since the fire, and it looked like they were reorganizing.” We await official word on a reopening date, but the scene looks promising.

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Disaster Report Update: Brooklyn Star Getting Close to Reopening After Fire

No. 7 Sub , one of the Ace Hotel’s myriad number of shops and restaurants, has launched a brand new breakfast sandwich menu .

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Mmmmm, Sandwich: No. 7 Sub Shop Launches New Breakfast Menu At Ace Hotel

A new food truck is getting ready to hit the streets of Boston, with this one concentrating on comfort food items. According to Thrillist Boston , Fillbelly’s Food Truck will be driving around Boston starting this Friday night, offering such items as chicken and waffles, chicken wings, empanadas, macaroni and cheese, and more.

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Fillbelly’s Food Truck Bringing Chicken and Waffles (and More) to the Boston Area

Newyorkology notices the Shake Shack signage has finally gone up on the eagerly anticipated Midtown branch of the burger chain on 8th and 44th. The opening is still somewhat up in the air, but its landlord, the Intercontinental Hotel, opens to the public on July 13

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Shack Attack!: Shake Shack Rising: Signage Hits Midtown as Debut Looms

Eater operatives were in Aspen all weekend at the 2010 Food and Wine Classic , poor things, and wrote up all the wining and dining you missed out on. Head over to Eater National for a look at the swag room , a Michael Voltaggio/Rick Bayless quickfire cookoff , Thomas Keller’s secrets to success , the Voltaggio brothers making kitchen fireworks , and a Collichio/Bastianich music video . [-E-]

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Eater Aspen: Eater operatives were in Aspen all…

Gino owner Michael Miele wasn’t kidding when he said he was taking the famous jumping zebra wallpaper with him when the place closed . Sprinkles , the Beverly Hills cupcake shop that’s moving in said they wanted to keep the wallpaper up, but new snapshots of the space reveal that those zebras are gone, baby, gone.

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Gino Coda: Gino owner Michael Miele wasn’t kidding…

An Italian restaurant will soon be opening along the waterfront of Boston, and it will have a familiar name. Based on the new restaurant’s website as well as signs within the building where it will be opening, Strega is coming to Fan Pier this summer, making this the third Strega in the Boston area, with the original being on Hanover Street in the North End and another residing on Lafayette Street in Salem. An earlier Boston Globe article had stated that the new Strega will be almost three times the size of the restaurant in the North End, with a capacity of more than 150 inside the place, plus additional outdoor seating during the warmer months

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Strega Opening at Fan Pier on the Boston Waterfront

HuffPo chats up Dovetail’s John Fraser on his Meatless Mondays dinners, how he’s trying to get the focus away from meat and proteins, and how the program has brought a new demographic to the restaurant. In fact, he’s considering finding it a permanent home: I would love to open an upper-echelon vegetarian or vegetable-focused restaurant — basically what we offer on Monday as a stand-alone restaurant. I think it would be very successful in New York City.

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Veggie, Veggie, Fruit, Fruit: John Fraser on Meatless Mondays, Possible Vegetarian Resto

CNN convinced a Brooklyn Mister Softee truck to let one of their reporters ride along for a day , and among others things discovered that ice cream trucks can haul in the cash : the driver they spoke with makes between $400 and $900 a day . That number is before start-up costs and storage fees, but still. [CNN via Eater National ]

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Cash Cows: CNN convinced a Brooklyn Mister Softee…

There aren’t many places in the world as beautiful as Cape Town – with its whitewashed beaches and surrounding mountains, most visitors come expressly for the outdoor lifestyle that the city has become famous for. The most photographed beaches are probably those that have become known as part of the platinum mile- the trendy beaches from Clifton to Camps Bay where the rich and famous (and everyone else) come to see and be seen

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Cape Town holiday villas

Cape Town attractions are plentiful and varied. The Western Cape is one of South Africa’s premier tourism destinations and for good reason. With its majestic Table Mountain backdrop, Cape Town is one of the most beautiful cities in the world

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Cape Town Luxury accommodation

1) Williamsburg: Feast notes that plywood vet Cafe Colette is now open for breakfast and lunch in the former Silent H space on Berry St. The new bistro from a former partner at Silent H and another from nearby cocktail den Hotel Delamo features light French fare, plus Stuptown coffee. Status: Certified Open, 79 Berry St., no phone yet

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Monday Opening Report : Cafe Colette, San Xavier, Lady Jay’s, Parilla all Certified Open

Finally, someone has published a guide to New York roof bars that categorizes each bar by its distance from the ground. Closest to the ground is Berry Park, where guests imbibe just 15 feet in the air. At the opposite end of the chart is the new Sky Room at the Fairfield Inn & Suites, a gigantic bi-level space that is a vertigo-inducing 400 feet above Times Square

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Up On The Roof: Finally, someone has published a guide…

[ Krieger ] Allan Basaran spent twenty years manning the doors at some of Manhattan’s most exclusive restaurants before taking a job as the maitre d’ at Le Caprice on the Upper East Side. To prepare for his new position, Allan traveled to London to work at the original location and study under the tutelage of Jesus Adorno , a legend in the world of maitre d’s. Since Le Caprice’s inaugural service last October — a book party for none other than Anna Wintour and Calvin Klein — the restaurant has enjoyed steady business, if a less than kind reception from many of the city’s top critics

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The Gatekeepers: Le Caprice’s Allan Basaran

Mayor Bloomberg on the proposed anti food truck bill in front of City Council : ” Moving stores into the streets is not what the streets were designed for , and that’s exactly what we’re doing. We are moving stores into the streets and they sit there and they park and they take up parking places and they block traffic.” [ML]

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Meals on Wheels: Mayor Bloomberg on the proposed anti…

Today in Shake Shack rumors: A tipster claims that they overheard the management at Atlantic Gardens , a new business development in Boerum Hill, talking about a new Shack location moving in.

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Shack Rumors : Atlantic Gardens Latest Development to Court Shake Shack

Our latest Twitter poll has just wrapped up, with this one dealing with best chicken wings in the Boston area. Our previous polls have included a macaroni and cheese poll (Fat Cat in Quincy won), a fried clam poll (JT Farnham’s in Essex), an onion ring poll (Mr. Bartley’s Burger Cottage in Cambridge), a hot dog poll (Spike’s Junkyard Dogs), a pizza poll (Santarpio’s in East Boston), a burger poll (Mr.

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Results of Twitter Chicken Wing Poll

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…