CROWN HEIGHTS — Gothamist reports that Starlite Lounge , Brooklyn’s oldest gay bar, may be forced to close, because the landlord sold the building. Grub Street adds that the bar is angling for landmark status and encourages fans to sign petitions online and at the bar
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EaterWire: Before They Were Food Network Stars; Cooking for Mussolini
Quick giveaway time! Up for the taking today is Marco Canora’s excellent new cokbook “Salt to Taste.” Want it? Be the 7th person to email contests@eater.com with the subject line “Canora Cookbook.” Winners must be able to pick up the book during work hours at Eater HQ in downtown Manhattan . And we have a winner! Thanks for playing.
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For better and worse, 2009 was the year that the restaurant industry embraced Twitter , and fortunately for (almost) everyone involved, many of the food world’s most notable figures hopped on the bandwagon, oftentimes to mind-numbing and hilarious results.. Today, Eater National compiles some of the most important (Ruth Reichl on Gourmet ), most disturbing (Gael Greene on vibrators) and most memorable updates from the restaurant world’s Twitterati.
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Twitterverse: A Moveable Tweet: The Year’s Most Memorable Tweets
10: The saga of Kurve comes to a close, sort of . Coverage: After almost getting evicted and being deemed a shitshow , Kurve launches an all you can eat buffet, offers wifi and cupcakes, and changes its name to Rhong Tiam.
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Year in Eater 2009: Eater’s Top 10 Restaurant Industry Stories of the Year
While everyone else worries about more traditional safety threats, USA Today digs deep into the seedy world of airport restaurant health standards. What they find: “On the most recent inspections available online, 42% of 57 restaurants reviewed at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport had at least one “critical” violation.
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As is the tradition at Eater, our closeout of the year is a survey of friends, industry types, bloggers, and readers. This year, we asked the group eight questions, from Meal of the Year to Top Standbys.
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Year in Eater 2009: Restaurant Experts Call Out the Single Best Meals of 2009
The Community Board 2 agenda is up, and it looks like a good one . Il Buco and Flex Mussels may finally appear to apply for liquor licenses for their new spaces, as will the new operators for the spaces that once held Civetta , Merkato 55 , Senor Swanky’s, Rare Bar & Grill, Elettaria , Go Sushi, and FROG. For those who want to attend, mark Jan 12 on the calendars.
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Whole Foods’ resident corporate nutbar, CEO John Mackey , just had a lengthy profile in this week’s New Yorker , which was just the latest instance of his, ahem, eccentric ways of dealing with the media. But now comes the news that he’s relinquishing his title of chairman
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Corporate Shuffles: John Mackey Relinquishes Whole Foods Chairman Title
What it will look like when completed liQcity reports that the Breadbox Cafe , a Long Island City bakery that was recently named one of Curbed’s funkiest facades of the year , is now soft open . Once a Getty autobody shop, the bakery (when completed) will be completely covered in rolling pins .
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Wendesday Opening Alert: Crazy Rolling Pin Covered Bakery Opens in Long Island City
Down in Florida, Eater Miami sneaks a plywood peek at the under-construction BK Whopper Bar , Burger King’s attempt at a modish meatery overhaul. There’s already a branch at the Universal City Walk in Orlando and in the next year, the chain is expected to roll out a lot more of the concepts. According to a BK press release, “Sandwiches are built to order by an expert ‘WHOPPER®-ista’ from the WHOPPER® Topper .” Yes, that said “expert WHOPPER®-ista.
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Whopper Bars: Down in Florida, Eater Miami sneaks…
The Times gets on the end of year round up beat this week, offering lists of the best spots from the $25 and Under section, the city’s best cocktails , and Sam Sifton’s 11 favorite dishes of the year , which can be found at Le Caprice , Marea, Minetta Tavern, Co, DBGB, Buttermilk Channel, Prime Meats , The John Dory (RIP), Baoguette, Oceana, and Locanda Verde. [NYT]
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A high-end Manhattan restaurant that was once the highest grossing dining spot in the entire United States is shutting its doors this week. According to the Associated Press, NPR, and a number of other sources, Tavern on the Green in the Upper West Side of New York City will be serving its last meal tomorrow (New Year’s Eve) after being in business since the mid-1930s
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News Elsewhere: Tavern On The Green in Manhattan Is Closing
Bret Thorn over at Nation’s Restaurant News reports that chef and restaurateur Andy Yang is offering a free lunch from noon to 3PM today at everyone’s favorite psychedelic Thai restaurant, Rhong Tiam East (fka Kurve). Excitement! Yang, unleashing his holiday spirit, will be giving away dishes of rendang , a rich, brown, typically Indonesian curry served with wide flat noodles and either beef or chicken
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Desperate Measures: Free Lunch Today at Kurve/Rhong Tiam East!
Tomorrow, Sam Sifton heads back to the outer boroughs, this time to Brooklyn’s Ditmas Park, to file a review of Purple Yam , a Filipino pan-Asian restaurant that was called Cendrillon when it operated in Soho.
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Sift Happens: Back to the Outer Boroughs, Sifton Hits up Purple Yam
For those who didn’t think the notion of a Shake Shack in the bowels of Nolita could get any better, please brace. The one story building Danny Meyer is planning for what is now an empty parking lot on 47 Prince Street will have a 30 seat roof top terrace
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Shack Attack!: Shake Shack Nolita Will Boast 30 Person Rooftop Terrace
On the left, the logo of Aaron McCargo Jr. , the newish Food Network star. On the right, the logo of Max Brenner , the chocolate shop with a location in Union Square (RIP 2nd Ave location)
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Two is a Trend: Food Network Star Takes Page from the Max Brenner Playbook
It’s that time of year again for everyone’s favorite elimination challenge : the annual Curbed Cup . This year, instead of the 16 seed elimination, they’re pitting four neighborhoods against one another in an effort to choose, once and for all, the 2009 Neighborhood of the Year . Williamsburg is facing off against Harlem today, so get to the voting.
A tipster points out and Slice also notices that lauded Red Hook coal-oven pizza shop Anselmo’s has closed due to the owners’ claim of a dreaded landlady swindle . The website (warning: “Lazy Mary”) points the finger: “WE WILL CONTINUE MAKING GREAT PIZZA SOMEWHERE ELSE… OUR LANDLORD SWINDLED US OUT OF OUR LEASE.
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Anselmo’s Shuttered, Swindled?: A tipster points out and Slice…
Another restaurant week is coming to the Boston area, this one centered around both a Boston neighborhood and a southern suburb of the city. Dorchester-Milton Restaurant Week will be held from January 17 to January 31 (not including Fridays and Saturdays–January 22-23 and January 29-30), with eight restaurants in Milton and Dorchester featuring three-course meals for $30.10, as well as their regular menus.
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Dorchester-Milton Restaurant Week Coming January 17 to January 31, 2010
Tabloid readers, forgive the late pickup on this one. OK! reported earlier this month that Friends star Courteney Cox and her husband David Arquette are in the planning stages for a new show about New York City street food.
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TV Land: Potential Courteney Cox Food Truck Sitcom in the Works