IN THE NEWS: New York magazine’s Adam Platt reviews Hundred Acres (38 Macdougal St., nr. Prince St.) and Forge (134 Reade St), while Gael Greene considers Delicatessen (54 Prince St., at Lafayette St.) … Featured openings: Apiary (60 Third Ave., nr. 10th St.), Pita Joe (2 W. 14th St., nr. Fifth Ave.) and Vintage Irving […]

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IN THE NEWS: New York magazine’s Adam Platt reviews South Gate (154 Central Park S., nr. Seventh Ave.). … The Grub Street blog reports, “Top Chef contestant Spike Mendelsohn has left Mai House, but don’t assume his departure is related to winning a reality show of some sort. According to Eater, Mendelsohn got the mitten […]

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IN THE NEWS: New York magazine’s Grub Street blog reports the closing of Mei Lei Wah Coffee House and that Beard Award-winning chef Bradford Thompson (ex-Mary Elaine’s in Phoenix) has been named the new chef of Lever House. nymag.com … The New York Times’s Frank Bruni gives two stars to Eighty One (45 West 81st […]

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IN THE NEWS: New York magazine reviews Olana (72 Madison Ave., nr. 28th St.), Mia Dona (206 E. 58th St., nr. Third Ave), The New French (522 Hudson St., nr. 10th St.), Wildwood Barbeque (225 Park Ave. S., nr. 18th St.) and Benoit (60 W. 55th St., nr. Sixth Ave.). … Featured openings: Hundred Acres […]

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IN THE NEWS: The Daily News’s Rachel Wharton features the new book “The Hamburger” (Yale University Press, $22) from Josh Ozersky, the online food editor for New York magazine. Ozersky has a few recommendations on the city’s best burgers: Hildebrandt’s (84 Hillside Ave., Williston Park, L.I.); Seymour Burton (511 E. Fifth St.); White Manna (358 […]

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IN THE NEWS: The Daily News’s Owen Moritz reports the April 6 closing of 68-year-old Cheyenne Diner, a 24/7 neighborhood institution at Ninth Ave. and W. 33rd St. festooned with Native American artifacts. It recenlty lost its lease to a rival diner around the corner - the bigger, fancier Skylight Diner. … Danyelle Freeman gives […]

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IN THE NEWS: Andrea Strong’s TheStrongBuzz.com reviews Commerce (50 Commerce Street, near Barrow Street, 212-524-2301) and reports the scheduled April 30 closing of West Village’s Chocolate Bar, which will move in May to 127 East Seventh Street. … The New York Times’s Frank Bruni awards two stars to Bar Boulud (1900 Broadway near 64th Street, […]

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