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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First Word: The Community Board 2 agenda is…
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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Best of ’09: The Times gets on the end…
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!
Even asmidprice hotels began losing businessthis pastsummer, luxury hotels continued tofill their rooms.
The hotel business has collided head-on with the bad economy and the tight credit market.
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Itineraries Luxury Hotels Are Feeling Economys Pinch NYTimes.com – Luxury Hotel – Press Release – HOTEL ACCOMMODATION AND RESERVATION GUIDE ONLINE
The county’s luxury coastal hotels have laid off workers and made other cuts amid a downturn in visitors and corporate events that is shaping up to be worse than after the terrorist attacks of 2001 . The hotels, which overlook the ocean and charge $400 to thousands of dollars a night, have laid…
In my opinion, the most delightful part of being in Bali is getting away from the cacophony of the tourist strip and heading up country; being ‘on the road’ or road trips. I reckon I must have covered just about every road, track, path over the decades and yet, I still find immense enjoyment in
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Photo of the Day: On the Road
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
The Brooklyn Paper brings word of last night’s opening of Atlantic Avenue’s Roebling Inn . Its sisters the Brooklyn Inn, Ear Inn, Hotel Delmano, Hotel Griffou, Kuma Inn, Manhattan Inn, Mermaid Inn, Subway Inn, and Waverly Inn send a warm welcome. [BP]
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10 is a Trend: The Brooklyn Paper brings word of…