It seems like the whole TV-watching population is all amped up for tonight’s premiere of the final season of Lost , and East Village bar Professor Thom’s is no exception. For those who don’t know what those numbers mean (to be fair, no one really knows) get some background info here
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Lost Mania: Professor Thom’s Geared up for Lost Premiere
A critically-acclaimed seafood restaurant will soon be moving out of Winchester and will be replaced with a comfort food place run by the same owners. According to the Boston Globe and Grub Street Boston, Catch will serve its last meal on Church Street in the center of town on Valentine’s Day weekend, with Parson’s Table looking to open in the same spot sometime toward the end of February.
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Catch to Move Out of Winchester; Parson’s Table to Replace It
From the tipline: “I live right by East Side Company Bar and read about its future replacement Painkiller , but hadn’t noticed any signs of change until last Thursday night when they put a new sign on the door announcing ‘renovations.’” Indeed, a walk by yesterday afternoon revealed the above scene. Sasha Petraske’s sophomore effort East Side is closed, presumably to make way for the new project from his Dutch Kills partners. It’s a venture that’s already being hyped as the “best-ever tiki bar.”
A year after he pulled out of his hotel restaurant The Libertine and two months after announcing a partnership with the Plaza Hotel to build a food court, new details emerge about celeb chef Todd English’s latest hotel project. As he mentioned last month, English is teaming up with the new InterContinenal Hotel in Times Square to create a French brasserie
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Overbooked: More on Todd English’s Latest, but not Last, Hotel Project
Participating in New York’s bi-annual Restaurant Week is always a crapshoot. Some restaurants perform a total botch job, shuttling diners through three courses of chicken and salmon as quickly as humanly possible while others put in a real effort, offering their best service and menus to tempt new clientele to return. For those still considering hitting up a deal, these are the places to seek out and to avoid: Tried and True: The Restaurant : The Modern The Source : The Wandering Eater The Low Down : Click through for the play by play and food porn, but this is the major takeaway: “In all, The Modern Bar Room for Restaurant Week dinner (they don’t serve lunch for RW) is never a let down
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Good News/Bad News: The Winners and Losers of Restaurant Week 2010
The Fenway neighborhood of Boston will see the opening of another Mexican restaurant this week. According to Grub Street Boston and several other sources, the Fenway Cantina will open its doors tomorrow on Boylston Street near Fenway Park, serving up Tex-Mex food and offering a variety of beers
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Fenway Cantina (A Tex-Mex Restaurant) Opening on Boylston Street
Yesterday, The Wall Street Journal ran a fairly standard piece on how star chefs have been making the leap to the cocktail circuit lately and in the process, revolutionizing the mixed drink. However, the most intriguing parts of the article are the details of Grant Achatz’s new project: a bar .
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Game Changers: Grant Achatz Opening A Molecular Bar in Chicago
GRAMERCY — Friend of a Farmer on Irving Place will be closed for at least a day while they redo their floors. [EaterWire] MIDTOWN — Midtown Lunch spots protesters outside of Mapo Tofu , a Midtown restaurant that took over the space of the shuttered Wu Liang Ye
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EaterWire: Firefighters Storm Bond St; Renos at Friend of a Farmer
Following Mayor Bloomberg’s initiative to get food producers, fast food companies, and restaurants to voluntarily reduce salt levels in food by 25 percent, the Times tests dishes from Momo Milk, The Standard Grill, Shake Shack, and others to see what damage they do in the sodium chloride department .
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Heart Attack Sandwiches: Following Mayor Bloomberg’s initiative to get…
1) Upper West Side : The second location of 5 Napkin Burger will open tonight in the former Ollie’s space on the Upper West Side. Status : Opening tonight; 2315 Broadway, 212-333-4488 .
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Monday Opening Report: Oaxaca Grill, Cupcakeland, Five Napkin Burger Certified Open
61 percent of reporter Glenn Collins’ stories of the last year have been about Tavern on the Green . His last 12 published stories: 1) At Tavern on the Green, Everything Must (and Does) Go; 1/29/10 2) A Bargain Lunch, and Dancing Bears, Too; 1/25/10 (Russian Tea Room) 3) Tavern on the Green’s Last Sale, for Now; 1/20/10 4) Tavern Is in a Deeper Hole Than Was Thought; 1/19/10 5) The Gavel Falls on Tavern on the Green ; 1/15/10 6) Tavern on the Green Sells Out; 1/13/10 7) Judge to the LeRoys: It’s All Yours, Almost; 1/13/10 
Who Owns What at Tavern on the Green? ; 1/11/10 9) All the News That’s Fit…, 1/7/10 (This story is not about TotG) 10) City Is Denied a Trademark on a Backup Name for Tavern; 1/5/10 11) Ringing Out Tavern on the Green; 1/1/10 12) A Treasure Trove of Trinkets; 12/18/09 Not that TotG doesn’t deserve its own dedicated correspondent or anything, but there are a lot more where those came from
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Time for a New Beat?: A Look at Tavern on the Green Reportage at the Times
Since housing in central London is pretty outrageous, living in student housing does come out to be more cost-effective.The process to sign up for LSE accommodation will begin any day now (in February). I have spent the past few days researching the different availabilities and deciding which housing to put on my preference list. I am to pick 3 residential hall/building from the LSE-only accommodation and also 3 more from the University of London intercollegiate halls .
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London Real Estate: Student Edition
An open casting call is being held in Boston next Monday for a new Food Network restaurant competition series. On February 8, the television channel will be casting the first season of 24 Hour Restaurant Battle at the Lenox Hotel on Exeter Street in the Back Bay from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM
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Casting Call for 24 Hour Restaurant Battle (New Food Network Show), February 8, 2010
Click here to enlarge This Friday, restaurateur and soon-to-be new dad Scott Conant opens his latest NYC restaurant, Faustina in the Cooper Square Hotel.
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Sneak Peeks: A First Look at the Menu and Layout of Conant’s Faustina
Last October, rumors began to fly that Amy Sacco’s Bungalow 8 had decided to call it a day. Ms. Sacco vehemently denied the rumors , telling Eater at the time, “I am redoing the entire space to give it a facelift, that’s really all
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Nightlife: Bungalow 8 Renovation Delays Impact Its Re-opening
Do you love the nightlife so gosh darn much that you want to bring it home with you? Then Douglaston Development has an offer for you! Given its proximity to the beleaguered Chelsea nightlife zone , the real estate firm is trying to attract nightlife loving renters to its Ohm building at West 30th Street and 11th Avenue by stocking it full of nightlife amenities.
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Nightlife: Ohm Lets You Bring the Nightclub Home With You
After months of anticipation and hype, Mile End , the new Montreal/Jewish deli out in Boerum Hill opened last Monday. And surprise, surprise the little shop can’t handle all the demand
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Mobbed: Following Meat Shortage, Mile End Closes to Regroup
The current facade of Michael White’s newest The Community Board 2 SLA Licensing meeting agenda is up and it’s going to be a fun one. Two heavy hitters Shake Shack Nolita and Michael White’s new space on 218 Lafayette will make their pleas, as will the operator of the old Elettaria space (to be called Salatim), the old Harbour space (to be called Parlor Club ), and the old Merkato 55 space (now Villa Pacri )
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First Word: Michael White, Shake Shack to Appear Before Community
Lost City checks in on Gino , the 64 year-old Upper East Side restaurant long in danger of closing because of depleted business and a tiff with the workers union. Workers at the restaurant reported over the weekend that they aren’t planning on closing at the moment, that ” we’re still talking, but it looks good .” [LC]
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Gino Now Safe?: Lost City checks in on Gino,…
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