IN THE NEWS: The Associated Press and others report that New York City eateries must remove artificial trans fats from all menu items by July 1. “When first implemented last year, the Health Department ban applied only to fry oils and spreads. It now will also include baked goods, frozen foods, cannoli and doughnuts. Foods […]

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IN THE NEWS: Eater.com details the opening of Bar Blanc (142 West 10th Street, West Village; 212-255-2330) and the closings of Agata & Valentina Ristorante (1505 1st Ave, agatavalentina.com), Frank’s steak house (410 W 16th St), and Sapore (55 Greenwich Ave.). … The New York Times’s Frank Bruni gives one star to Barbuto (775 Washington […]

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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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