This weekend, May 16-18th, the Meatpacking District will be host to innumerable tables, chairs and models sipping free organic vodka. Joining them are LVHRD members John Truex and Holler Design’s Matt Alexander and Melissa Watkins. Both are showing emotionally moving pieces of limited edition furniture at Shelly Steffee with an opening reception on Sunday from 5-9pm.
I’m sad. The first restaurant I loved in New York will be closing sometime very soon.
22 years ago Florent opened in the Meat Packing District. This was when the area was mostly meat packing plants and S&M clubs. Today, Florent is in danger of becoming another victim of an insane real estate market in an insane neighborhood.
Florent’s landlord is raising the rent from $6K a month to $70K (and I thought my landlord was a greedy SOB.) Rumor has it that the diner will stay open as long as it takes…
White Castle, that is.
We’re not vouching for what actually happens once you make a reservation. All we know is what the advertisement claims:
“Bring your significant other, moderately important friend, for a candlelit, tableside feast.”
Call 718-899-8404 ext. 300 to make a reservation at a New York White Castle, 5-9pm tonight.
The Col-Pop, a portable trough for simultaneous consumption of fried meat and soda, is the latest stepping stone in what is apparently our genetic pursuit to become the fattest, most worthless creatures on the planet.
Developed in South Korea for the chain BBQ Chicken and reviewed on Serious Eats by Adam Kuban, the Co-Pop comes in several different combinations of chunks and syrup water, the most prominent being popcorn chicken on top and soda underneath. Other permutations include soda and spaghetti, french fries, or fried mozzarella balls.
Kuban demonstrates the ease…
Ghetto Gourmet returns this weekend with two seating: Friday, December 7th in TriBeCA; Saturday, December 8th, LES.
Friday night’s dinner features Chef Liz Quijada, from Suspicious Suppers and Abraco.
Saturday, the GG’s own Chef Rich Pinto will be on the burners cooking up an intimate supper to fortify you against the cold.
Tickets and menus:
LVHRD went to the Ghetto Gourmet in September: fantastic. We want to make a Pixar musical about it.
SPTLGHT is a feature from LVHRD.ORG where members venture out into the world to experience something new, exciting, and share it with you. SPTLGHT will offer insight into new ways of living, playing, and enjoying your world.
The GhettoGourmet, our favorite - and only - globe trotting semi-secret dinner party series swept through New York this past weekend.
The intimate dinners for about 40 people feature local ingredients prepared by local chefs - the finest sourdough if you catch a meal in San Francisco, fresh Atlantic fish if you grab a…
We could eat a million! Maybe even a billion! God those little bastards are good! Pork or veggie, steamed or fried, little dipping sauce…wow man we just lost all composure. Ok. Here goes.
The 4th Annual Dumpling Eating Contest is going down Sunday, August 5th at the Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival at Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens. First prize is a $1000, and while it doesn’t come for free (you have to eat) it probably tastes pretty good.
The record, so eloquently stated on the poster is “Man: 49 dumplings;…
We forgot Pinkberry was happening until we stepped outside this afternoon and saw gaggles of Japanese tourists clutching their white styrofoam tubs like they were iPhones (note: iPhone similes have replaced Holy Grail similes.)
They don’t like you taking pictures of the inside of Pinkberry (all those trade secrets), but that’s not so bad since there’s scarcely room to lift a camera once you’re inside.
The shop is one narrow hallway with some tables at the front and back. You order at a register and then elbow your way through a…
The Green Edge Collaborative is a group based in Brooklyn that aims to raise community awareness to social and environmental issues by sponsoring local events like Supper Club and the Eco-Eatery Tour.
The Eco-Eatery Tours sound especially interesting: Green Edge eats its way through Brooklyn foodspots that exemplify what it means to eat sustainably.
We’re really sorry we JUST missed this month’s Tour to Habana Outpost on Fulton Street. It was yesterday! and we love Habana Outpost! Bicycle powered smoothies, solar-powered kitchen, and Mexican street corn. Sigh.
Last night the James Beard Foundation Awards honored the best chefs and restaurants in the country at a food ball that makes our stomachs growl as much as reading this lunch blog. Guests at the reception reaped the windfall of superstar chef creations like “cotton candy wrapped around foie gras and peekytoe crab cappuccino with lemon verbena.” (Originally from Gridskipper).
New York took the lion’s share of awards. Best Chef: New York City went to David Waltuck from Chanterelle.
Check out the full list of winners and nominees. Then make a…
Join the World Cares Center tonight, April 26th, at Brooklyn Brewery for a party with a purpose. Buying a ticket to the event will not only get you unlimited tastes of Brooklyn Brewery’s seven awesome beers on tap, but 100% of your tax-deductible donation will go towards supporting World Cares Center in its mission to foster safe and effective disaster response and resiliency within global communities.
Mention World Cares Center’s tagline: COLLABORATE, PREPARE, RECOVER at the bar to try Brooklyn Brewery’s Brewmaster Reserve. Small parcels of food provided by Greenpoint’s own Parish Diner.
This…
The Ghetto Gourmet is back in the NYC, just like we said it would be! Starting next week, LVHRD’s favorite improv dinner club will be downtown for four one of a kind meals in Tribeca and the LES.
You won’t know exactly where and what you’re eating until the day before your meal takes place: menu items and dining location are finally revealed via email. Chefs are taking suggestions for the dishes you’d most like to see prepared, affording you the luxury of eating whatever you so desire whilst seated — on…
Watch this week's installment of the LVHRD VDO Series. This episode:LVHRD VDO: DNCHRD IV IS MAY 20th
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