EaterWire: Celsius Rising, Vendors in Crisis, Tepperberg at the CB, and More
BRYANT PARK—The annual winter popup restaurant at Bryant Park, Celsius, has just opened for the '08-'09 season. The 7,000 square foot, two story structure will serve "comfort food with a Canadian accent" (chili, mac & cheese). [EaterWire]
NATIONAL— The auto industry would like us all to know that if it collapses and doesn't receive government help, countless hot dog vendors will lose their jobs. [Eater SF]
Tepperberg, free wine, and more.>>
We have sexy chefs on the brain, but how about sexy bartenders?" Sasha Petraske made it in as number 9 in Jezebel's list of "The 10 Sexiest Everyday Men Of 2008." [Jezebel via NRN]
Renovation Report: Jacques' New Fondue Cave
Soho: Because fondue concepts always work, Jacques Ouari, the owner of Nolita French bistro Jacques is renovating his basement space from the North African themed Gibraltar Lounge into La Cave des Fondues. That's right, a fondue cave. A late night fondue cave. The entire menu will consist of three fondues (cheese, court bouillon, and chocolate), and they hope to open in the next few weeks.
· The Plywood Report: Gibraltar Space [~E~]
kurve -- 212 260 8018 -- 2 rings, press 2, please leave your name and contact number
secession -- 212 791 3771 -- 3 rings, checking now for two, we have 7 o'clock or 9
corton -- 212 219 2777 -- 2 rings, tonight i just have the later side, 8:30, 9 o'clock
10 downing -- 212 255 0300 -- 1 ring, press 1, tonight we're fully booked
Board Wrap: Mendes' Epic Delay
· eGullet Weighs in on the Txikito, Gives it a Mixed Bag [eG]
· George Mendes Restaurant Delayed Until Feb '09 [eG]
· Pregnant, Stuck in Tribeca, Craving Mexican [CH]
· Where to Take My 15 Cigar Smoking Friends [CH]
· Debating Beets on a Burger [SE]
· Whatever Happened To/Can I Get a McDonald's Cake? [SE]
Wylie Dufresne on Thanksgiving: "What are you thankful for this year? Staying in business." [Metromix]
Just what we need, another Yelp. Citysearch has launched a beta version of their redesign which now offers content on 75,000 neighborhoods (not just in cities), features a new interface, and oh dear, has "new social features, including integration with Facebook Connect, [that] let users share their favorite local content and business reviews with friends in their social graph." [Citysearch]
Good News/Bad News Txikito
Krieger, 11/14/08
The tiny, hard-to-pronounce Txikito from former Tia Pol/Quinto Pino team Alex Raij and Eder Montero has been open for about a week and has already racked up a variety of reviews from commenters and bloggers. Both Gourmet and Ed Levine have already weighed in with fairly positive accounts of recent meals there, and commenters add some early critical analysis.
The Great News: An enthusiastic Eater commenter has a brief but effusive account of the food/service: “Went Thursday night, amazing food and attentive waiters. All was good except for the Hermes shoe wearing douche who tried to tell the staff that they were doing their shrimp wrong (they should do how Americans expect it, not Basque).” [Eater Comments]
More Good News, and of course, the Bad News>>Attention Jordan Frosolone and Team: If you continue to stuff the Hottest Chef ballot box, you will be removed from the competition. Try us, if you think we're bluffing. [Eater Voting Ops.]
Some new info regarding one of our favorite doomed spaces in Park Slope, Playa (fka Lookout Hill, fka Biscuit BBQ): "It's opening up tonight (Wednesday) and doing the 25 percent off thing well into December...The restaurant will bill itself as pan-Latin with an emphasis on seafood..." The last tenant here lasted a good five months, so we'll be keeping an eye on the new guy. [EaterWire]
Eater Inside: Vinegar Hill House
Krieger, 11/18/08
While the one day-old Brooklyn restaurant Vinegar Hill House by ex-Freeman's chef Jean Adamson and her boyfriend and owner of Freeman's Sporting Club Barbershop Sam Buffa isn't officially connected to the Lower East Side restaurant, there are some striking similarities. Taxidermy has been replaced by other details including a long hanging flag and shelves with plants, but there is a similar homey aesthetic running through both operations. The pair built out the restaurant using mostly repurposed materials.
The menu will be seasonal, the fish sustainable, the meat, broken down from whole animals. According to the Robs the restaurant will focus "on grains, legumes, and vegetables, which are intended to supplement smaller portions of protein." Check here and here for first hand reports on opening night.
Freemans alums, Seasonal, BYOB
72 Hudson Ave., Vinegar Hill; 718-522-1018
Open nightly for dinner
Hottest Chef in NY Round 1: Mason, Dieterle, Frosolone, Wilson, Mullen
Round One of our Hottest Chef in New York contest continues today. Yesterday, Klee Brasserie's Daniel Angerer narrowly beat his competitors in a very close heat. Today, more voting! Tatted up Tailor chef Sam Mason goes up against Harold Dieterle, Hearth's Jordon Frosolone, Seamus Mullen, and The Soho and Tribeca Grand's Herb Wilson. For a look at all 45 contenders, see the gallery here. May the hottest chef win.
To the VOTING.>>SPONSORED POST: Eater Inside Miami Il Gabbiano
Dale DeGroff, the man called the King of Cocktails, predicts the booze world's upcoming trends, though some of the following are probably in the "already arrived" category: "Pisco is going to be big. Anything from South America really. Brown liquors are on the rise. The geeky bartenders are making drinks with bourbon and rye. Rhum agricole. Tequila, anything Latin really. Sherry is popping up in cocktails everywhere." [YumSugar via Eater SF]
Hottest Chef Report: The Standings After Day 6
We had an incredibly tight race in yesterday's heat in the Hottest Chef in New York competition, but by the time polls closed at 8 am this morning, Klee Brasserie chef Daniel Angerer had defeated main rival Julian Alonzo by a mere 7 votes. He'll move ahead to Round Two next week, and unfortunately Alonzo, Morimoto, Samuelsson, and the Hummer move to the losers circle. More voting is ahead, but first, a look at the current standings.
Who's left standing?>>
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