IN THE NEWS: The New York Times’s Florence Fabricant reports that Hung Huynh, last season’s ‘Top Chef’ winner, has signed a one month contract as executive chef of the kosher Mediterranean/Asian restaurant Solo (Sony building at 550 Madison Avenue near 55th Street), starting March 2… Fabricant also features family bakery Sugar Bun (156-22 Cross Bay […]

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IN THE NEWS: Eater.com reports on the scheduled Dec. 31 closing of Jeffrey Chodorow’s Wild Salmon (622 3rd Avenue, New York, NY), the chef’s experiment in the seafood of the Pacific Northwest, and the recent closing of South Queen’s Jahn’s Ice Cream Parlor, a Hillside Avenue sweet shop open since the 1930s. … Eater also […]

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