BOERUM HILL : The perennially cramped Brooklyn Inn opened its renovated kitchen-cum-seating area where the jukebox once was. Music lovers, don't despair. They just moved the jukebox to the back room. In its stead, 25 seats and--gasp!--tables have been added. (Must have been a big jukebox.) [Eaterwir...

One of the nice things about the entire world going to hell in a handbasket is that we're all on the same boat. Ay! Ay! Cap'n Charon! Even though you may be struggling to pay your rent and/or your gym dues at Soma, so is everyone else. Especially hard hit are restaurateurs, who have product to move ...

Le Cirque is going all Medieval Times tomorrow night and hosting a "Zagat Vintage Dinner." [Brand synergy!] The dinner costs $200 a person and includes unlimited wine, tax and gratuity. That's actually a pretty good deal. Also, on the menu is ass meat with fruit mustard. Heh. Heh heh. Hehehehehehehe...

Click the image above to view the full photogallery. Vitiator of human nature and vaguely food-related show Top Chef is auditioning masochistic cheftestants for its sixth season. Our intrepid intern Bailly Roesch steaked {get it) out Craftsteak where the fourth round of open casting calls on Sunday,...

It's snowier than an Orhan Pamuk novel out there so there isn't much to do but stay home and read New York magazine's Best Of New York issue. Specifically, the Food Section natch. We have some issues with it, natch. First of all, what's with all the quibbling, Rob, Robin and Adam? If you all can't g...

Suba has gone to meet the great tapas maker in the sky. Good morning and welcome to March, the third month of this year. Thank god it wasn't a leap year because I'm not sure if the restaurant industry could have handled one more day of February slaughter. Here we remember the restaurants that have p...

Sad news from across the pond: Heston Blumenthal's The Fat Duck, probably the second best molecularly gastronomic restaurant in the old world, has closed due to persistent food poisoning troubles. As per the Guardian who broke the news Friday:Heston Blumenthal has shut the award-winning eatery - des...

As has been marginally reported elsewhere, Italian restaurateur Pino Luongo is arrabiata that Not-Quite-Top-Chef Stefan Richter named his book Dirty Dishes because that is what Pino Luongo named his own 2008 book (which is actually really good.) "I grew up in a world where you tried to be original,"...

It feels like the latest addition to the Franks' empire, Prime Meats, has been soft opening forever, like a delicious breach birth. The latest "quietly opened last night" post comes courtesy TONY and it's true. Well, for drinks at least. Mr. Falcinelli, the blue-eyed co-owner with prominent incisors...

Hosea Rosenberg, the George Bush circa 2000 of Top Chef, must be feeling pretty Glad right now. Not only did he walk away from the N'Awlins Judges' Table with $100,000 (in tupperware!) and into the court of public opinion (pollice verso!) but he got a new girlfriend, according to Page Six. And you w...