Click on the images for the scoop on The New Amsterdam Market; drinking and eating your way through Fashion's Night Out; and the upcoming Guest Chef Dinner series at Aldea, which features the city's top pastry chefs tackling savory dishes for one night only.
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So the food snobs over at Zagat rated Five Guys the best fast food burger in the country, but what do New Yorkers have to say about their greasy patties? Inspired by a recent Consumer Reports ranking of 18 burger chains, the Post put McDonald's, Burger King, Five Guys, Wendy's and White Castle to the test. And if there's one thing this disparate group of city folk can agree on, it's that White Castle sucks.
The battle for best burger was a little more subjective. Whi...
Fornino (Randy Duchaine) "Fornino Park Slope is a throwback, the sort of restaurant that will appeal mostly to those who still think of Manhattan as 'the city,' and who rarely cross a river to get to work," says Sam Sifton in his one star review of chef Michael Ayoub's return to Park Slope. Despite its expansive menu, most critics have focused (unfavorably) on Fornino's grilled pizza. Sifton doesn't dissent, loving pretty much everything until he comes to that co...
This week in food events, Perbacco serves up a complimentary summer drink just in time for the season to end, Magnolia Bakery makes a special cupcake in honor of Fashion's Night Out, and eat all you want from Brooklyn's best restaurants during Hot Plates Live.
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[UPDATE BELOW] On Sunday MeanRed Productions, which has had past success hosting funky parties and concerts at unique locations like BKLYN Yard, held a big food truck festival on Governors Island. By all accounts, it was a total clusterfuck, and dissatisfied attendees have taken to Twitter and the blogs to vent about the looooong hour-plus lines for each truck. (We warned you!) As one attendee wondered, "Anyone else at the #pa...
Flickr user Daniella Zalcman From the sounds of it, Rosemarie Ottomanelli didn't get much respect from her brothers. So while the five of them learned the tricks of the trade at Ottomanelli & Sons. butcher on Bleeker Street, she became a successful investment banker and real estate professor. And now, she's fighting for her share of the family business.
She's suing her brothers for her share of the rent of 285 Bleecker Street, which the family owns and is esti...
Via DOH In an attempt to beat the Department of Health at their own game, a few restaurants around the city have apparently been posting A grades in their windows, even if their inspections ranked them far from. The Daily News spotted a suspicious A at Ming's Chinese take-out on 9th Avenue, which was labeled "Sanitary Inspection Grade" and came complete with the city's seal. But when they looked up the greasy joint on the DOH website, violations including evidenc...
That holier-than-thou attitude most New Yorkers carry about being healthy because we walk everywhere and have so many food options may have to change, as a study shows that city efforts to curb childhood obesity have not changed. In fact, city kids may be even heavier than the national average. Last year, NYC Health Commissioner Dr. Thomas Farley said, "When four out of 10 school kids are overweight or obese, the city has a problem." And despite the city's efforts, the ...
Waffle Day be damned. As officially decreed by a group of CU Boulder students in 2004, today is International Bacon Day. And unfortunately, the Canadians seem to have us beat on celebrations. The Official Republic of Bacon will be giving away free bacon to the first 10,000 Canadians to "Love" bacon on their Facebook page. And we're jealous, because we'd settle for Canadian bacon if it were free. Any Canadians out there feel like getting us some meat? Pat Kiernan? At lea...
Paula Deen's fried bagel Going to Park Slope's Chipshop is like taking a little trip to a state fair where you can procure deep fried Coke and Oreos. Except this place will go even further, and will fry anything —there's even a deep fried Atkins bar on the menu, and legend has it they once deep fried someone's birthday cake. So when someone at the Daily News recently had a craving for a deep fried bagel and cream cheese, they knew where to go.
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This week in new restaurant and bar news: Whiskey and bacon at The Whiskey Brooklyn, rotisserie chicken from Pete's Since 1969's new Hell's Kitchen location, , and hamburgers with holes in them from 4Food.
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As expected, the truth behind some of New York's fanciest restaurants is coming to light, thanks to the DOH's new restaurant grading system. And the city's #1 restaurant is one of the first victims! World-renowned chef and Top Chef judge Eric Ripert's Le Bernardin got 32 demerits, just four points above a C grade, at its last inspection. Perhaps the Michelin starred joint needs to take a trip to LIC for some tips.
The restaurant was busted for holding cold food ite...
M?? P??che (Katie Sokoler/Gothamist) The NY Times' Sam Sifton bestows two stars on TriBeCa's Il Matto, possibly a first for a restaurant that has teacup banquettes and a painting of the chef as an octopus. Sifton loves chef and owner Matteo Boglione's eccentric cooking and style, "Il Matto is an outlier in what sometimes seems to be an increasingly codified Manhattan restaurant scene... You cannot order a plate of finishing-school fried chicken, nor a black-truf...
Click through for news on Governor's Island's food truck festival, scrambled ostrich eggs at Klee Brasserie and Saturday's pig roast in Williamsburg.
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Following the egg recall—which happened outside of New York, but right around the same time Brooklyn alfalfa sprouts and cheese was getting recalled—two New York State legislators have announced they want farmers to vaccinate their hens against salmonella.
State Senator Daniel Squadron and Assemblyman Brian Kavanagh made their statement known on Sunday, while standing in front of a Lower East Side supermarket, according to the AP. The recall they were res...
There are tiny creatures in our tap water, but you can't see them. (Photo on left by Jen Carlson/Gothamist)
While New York City may have some of the best tap water ever , it may not be kosher. When the water was tested in 2004, it set off an alarm in the Orthodox community because results showed tiny crustaceans known as copepods in it. At the time, Rabbi Abraham Zimmerman said, "We hope the city will do something to purify and filter the water to accommodate a ...
While the bagel hasn't really entered the disturbing culinary school of thought that brought you the Krispy Kreme Double Down, there's a new Twitter in town dedicated to one-off bad bagel orders, fittingly titled: Bad Bad Bagel—but can one really make a bad decision when ordering a bagel? Well, it was inspired by a recently overheard (and questionable) order of whitefish on cinnamon raisin—but that could b...
When Wendy's has products like the Baconator Triple ("A premium bun filled with three 1/4 lb. fresh, never frozen patties. Piled high with Applewood smoked bacon, mayo, ketchup, and sliced American cheese all made to order"), you'd want to make sure the bacon was at its most delicious, right? Apparently a cook at a West Hartford, Connecticut location feels that way—and that's why he threatened a fellow chef.
According to the Hartford Courant, Derron Christop...
Dinner is served. (Flickr user street stars) Times Trend alert! This week, the Times put on their work shoes and got cozy with some dumpster divers in Greenpoint. But unlike other "freegans," these folks seem pretty organized. They call themselves Grub, and they dumpster dive to supply a bi-weekly "cheap, simple dinner for friends and co-conspirators."
The divers managed to find foodstuffs ranging from organic juice to kale and blackberries. Eric Levinson, a y...
Via the Department of Health According to new data from the Department of Health, about 80% of the 250 restaurants that underwent the city's new sanitary inspections (which require grades to be posted for all customers to see) have passed, with 49% getting A grades and 31% getting B grades. Dr. Thomas Farley, New York City Health Commissioner, said in a statement, “Most restaurants maintain good sanitary conditions, and the City's new letter-grading system...
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