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 New York Times’s Frank Bruni knocks celebrity chef Bobby Flay’s Mesa Grill (102 Fifth Avenue near 15th Street, 212-807-7400) down a star, from two to one star — Eater.com further reporting that apparently the restaurant’s GM and a loose-lipped server subsequently were fired soon afterward — while Peter Meehan reviews Hakata […]

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