Photo courtesy of JPhilipson (Flickr) If you’ve been out and about these past few weeks, you might have seen camera crews filming the last season on ABC’s hit series “LOST” around Honolulu. Next month, the series will begin again, and locals and fans across the mainland will sit at the edge of their seats, eager to find out what will happen to the castaways on their favorite show.
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Kama’aina Rates Galore
Nobu in New York. [Photo by Steve Smith ] A new website by the name of Fish2Fork has taken it upon itself to be the watchdog for American and British restaurants’ willingness to serve sustainable seafood. It bills itself as “the first attempt we know of to rate restaurants that serve fish not only for the quality of their food but also for the effect they are having on the seas and on marine life.” Thing is, the project is still very much in its infancy and only a limited number of restaurants are rated so far, leading SF critic Michael Bauer to call it “a great effort, but a modest beginning.” That said, it’s worth taking a look at the best ratings and the worst offenders.
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Waste Not Want Not: The Nation’s Best and Worst Sustainable Fish Restos
The shuttered Aamchi Pao 1) Greenwich Village : A tipster sends word that Aamchi Pao , the seven month-old Indian street food shop has been closed since the new year: “I’ve been craving their mango lassi and was hoping they were just on vacation or something. Its been three weeks and the bio of the chef and reviews of the establishment have been taken down from the window. Bummer.” The restaurant took over for the recently shuttered Indian Bread Co.
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The Shutter: Aamchi Pao, Rice on Lex, and Elixir All Shutter
News about San Sebastian’s molecular gastronomy cooking school first broke a few months ago , but even though the Basque Culinary Centre isn’t slated to open until Sept. 2011, now a few more details (and renderings of the design!) have emerged
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Molecular Gastronomy U: News about San Sebastian’s molecular gastronomy…
A lengthy call to arms/landlord complaint has recently gone up at neighborhood restaurant and coffee shop Victory Cafe in Boerum Hill. According to the letter—read it in full below—the restaurant has been operating month-to-month, without the protection of a lease for the last three years
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Call to Arms: Landlord/Tenant Fight a Brewin’ at Boerum Hill’s Victory Cafe
When Jonathan Miles rightly used his final column to celebrate the cocktail craze of the past decade, he properly noted that, “cocktail was no longer a fashion accessory, as it was in the ’90s. It was fashion itself.” But as cocktail lists have become de rigueur at restaurants and bars, society is now plagued with a problem even more serious than the “appletini” craze
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Nightlife: Cocktails, Celebrity Booze: Best & Worst Trends Of The Aughts
Today in the saga of the endangered Ray’s Candy Store , a Save Ray’s Benefit Concert is in the works , and a group called Black Ops Bob and the Slacktivisits is organizing a protest/street party/fund raiser for Saturday. And here’s Ray’s getting some extra love on FOX . [EVG]
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The latest review on the Boston’s Hidden Restaurants Web site is for a restaurant in Winchester called the Swanton Street Diner . Located between Washington Street and Route 38 a short distance north of the town center, the Swanton Street Diner is a warm, comfortable place that features much more than standard diner food
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Latest Review: Swanton Street Diner, Winchester
If an action packed holiday is what you have always dreamt of, you can come straight to Ashland, Oregon that offers a lot to keep you busy. Located close to the California border, to Rogue Valley’s southern end, this place not only boasts of an unmatched scenic beauty but also offers many outdoor activities for those enthusiastic people who wish to explore nature in their own, exciting way.
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Ashland beckons adventure lovers
American Airlines is the latest airline to raise its checked bag fees, putting it in the same class as other carriers that introduced increased fees earlier this month . The new checked bags fees for American Airlines passengers will go into effect on airline tickets purchased after Feb
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American Airlines raises checked bags fee
British Airways is asking its ground staff to practice their in-flight skills as the airline prepares for a possible walkout from cabin crew, which could interfere with Easter holiday travels, according to the TimesOnline . Check-in agents, baggage handlers and back-room staff could be asked to help serve drinks, prepare the cabin and work at 35,000-feet after cabin crew union leaders announced plans for a new strike ballot. The TimesOnline published the following statement from Willie Walsh, BA’s chief executive: “I am asking for volunteers to back BA by training to work alongside cabin crew who choose not to support a strike, so we are ready to keep our customers flying as much as we possibly can if this strike goes ahead.” A judge banned the originally planned strike that was scheduled to take place over the Christmas holiday, but now Unite (the union that represents the BA cabin crew) says that it will re-ballot 13,000 cabin crew on the possibility of another strike
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BA faces Easter strike in midst of new strike ballot
From the tipline: “Went by Caffe Reggio today, that old old shithole in Greenwich Village. Looks like they have a new manager that is trying to revamp the place. They have an actual chef and are trying to do a brunch thing on the weekends
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Andrew Evans visits the bridge of the National Geographic Sea Lion , and catches up with the ship’s captain, David Sinclair. Every bus has a bus driver just like every ship has its captain–whether you’re carrying 60 passengers across the country or across the sea, someone has to be in charge and steer the thing in the right direction. On Lindblad’s National Geographic Sea Lion , that person is Captain David Sinclair
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Bus2Antarctica: El Capitan
A restaurant featuring kabobs and other Middle Eastern cuisine is coming to the Allston section of Boston. According to the restaurant’s website, Azama Grill will be opening on Harvard Avenue (between Cambridge Street and Brighton Avenue), bringing to the neighborhood a place to get halal food seven days a week–and late into the night, as their doors will remain open until 3:00 AM. In addition to kabobs, the menu at Azama Grill will include such dishes as tabouli, hoummous, falafel, baba ghanouj, shawarma, and Egyptian BBQ.
Tomas DeGeest, that dude who runs the Wafels & Dinges truck , emails to announce the truck’s Throwdown with Bobby Flay, filmed over by Columbia back in October, will air tomorrow at 9PM. Either man can emerge victorious on this one—no spoiler this time—but smart money’s on the man with the yellow truck. [EaterWire]
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Programming Note: Tomas DeGeest, that dude who runs…
Jeff Lunzaga, and the rest of the OAK Provisioning Department turned a Provisioning Truck into a Transformer for Halloween. Their great work was displayed in the Oakland International Airport. Thank you Jeff for submitting this great video!
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Southwest Airlines OAK Provisioning Presents Provotron
The LA Times reports that Tom Colicchio’s wife Lori Silverbush is currently 20 percent of the way through with the filming of Hungry in America , a new sleek documentary that one hopes will produce the same kind of change for the hungry masses in this country that films like Food, Inc. and King Corn did for local farms and organic growers. Colicchio and fellow big time New York restaurateur Mario Batali are co-producing.
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Video Interludes: Batali and Colicchio Co-Produce Hunger Documentary
As recovery efforts continue in Haiti, more airlines from around the world work to bring medical supplies, food and emergency equipment to the devastated country. EL AL , Israel’s national airline, was the latest to land in Haiti this past Thursday with a plane full of medical professionals and tons of emergency supplies. Two EL AL aircraft, a jumbo 747-400 and one 777, carried more than 80 tons of medical supplies to help with rescue and salvage efforts, and more than 200 passengers comprisming medical staff and search-and-rescue teams, as well as a K9 rescue squad.
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More airlines rush to aide Haiti
Fabio Trabocchi , famed New York chef, gives his first interviews since his sudden and shocking departure from the Four Seasons restaurant last week to Josh Ozersky and Gael Greene , and sadly, not much is revealed. Joshy doesn’t broach the sensitive subject of the split (which occurred three months into his tenure) at all, keeping the conversation to safe, highly technical pasta talk and a discussion on the lack of Italian four star restaurants in NYC.
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Chef Shuffles: Trabocchi Finally Speaks (Kind of) After Four Seasons Split
bmi has announced that it is to replace its Business Class service with a one-class all Economy cabin, however, it will offer enhanced services to passengers on Flexible Economy tickets. The new all Economy flights will be rolled out on 27 January 2010 on all UK and Ireland flights to and from London Heathrow.
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bmi scraps Business Class on Heathrow flights