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…
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Today we went to famed Italian deli Alleva on Grand and Mulberry to get a sandwich.
As soon as we walked in the guy behind the counter yelled at us, “We don’t got any breakfast sandwiches.†This was 2:30 in the afternoon. “That’s fine,†we said and waited in line. We got to the front and ordered only to be told there was no more bread. Not, “We’ve got some in the oven, come back in a sec,†just “We’re out of bread. No more.†The guy held up some crusty…
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Today we had lunch at Nonya with Yen and Michi, the two lovely lady architects of Front Studio who run the lunchstudio blog we often frequent when deciding where to eat. It was kind of a meta-lunch where we talked about lunch while eating roti canai and mee goreng.
Lunchstudio is a fantastic resource for those of us who work in the soho area. You’ll see pictures of food from places you’ve passed by a million times, but didn’t exist until you read about it on the blog.
We look forward to doing lunch…
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Just a reminder, in case you haven’t been waiting fever-fisted for the first glorious strokes of Summer:
Harry’s Water Taxi Beach in Long Island City is now open for the season with the freshest imported sand, volleyball, hot dogs, burgers, and pitchers of sangria.
You might remember Harry’s Beach from last year’s SLND CRS II, when LVHRD hijacked a water taxi at South Street Seaport and ran it aground at the Water Taxi Beach. The Empire State Building didn’t get any love. Booted right off the pier. No permit from management.…
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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…
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Though the name of it might make it sound like a bawdy burlesque house, Brasserie, located at 100 E. 53rd St. between Park and Lexington, is anything but (though, a part of us wishes it was).
Serving elegant French food at moderate prices, this restaurant features a menu that covers many French favorites, such as escargots and duck done just right. The wine selection is also quite exquisite.
Even more alluring though, besides the sumptuous dishes, is the overall lay-out, which has changed much since its 1959 beginnings. Following a…
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