MIDTOWN — Grub Street brings word of a big time chef shuffle: "A rep for the Oak Room tells us that, just days ago, the restaurant parted ways with Joël Antunes, the Atlanta star chef who was brought on to restore the refurbished dining room to its former glory. 'The chef and the ownershi...

The re-made Alice Tully Hall, with a sharp new design from Diller Scofidio & Renfro, opens at Lincoln Center on Sunday, and Times architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff has a rave for it today: "The womblike performance space, its surfaces flush with new life, makes it hard to remember the drearines...

1) Now that he's set up nicely at 15 Central Park West, Sting is once again ready to try and unload his 2nd/3rd-floor duplex at the Brentmore a few blocks north (Billy Joel's old pad). It had been listed in 2006 for $24 million and then $20 million, and now, adjusted for the luxury market meltdown, ...

This is The Gatekeepers, in which Eater roams the city meeting the fine ladies and gentlemen that stand between you and some of your favorite impossible-to-get tables. Krieger, 2/4/09 Upper West Side: In early December, Donatella Arpaia and Michael Psilakis reopened their recession-friendly UWS hit ...

CITYWIDE — SeamlessWeb is giving away free coffee at delis around Manhattan throughout February. Check their site for locations. [SeamlessWeb] UNION SQUARE — Joe Bastianich is "working to bring Eataly, one of the best Italian markets in the world, to a 60,000 sq. ft. space in New York: "...

An Upper West Side resident since 1969, John "Mac" McPherson saw the neighborhood through decades of change before passing away earlier this month. Among the memories in this nice NYT remembrance: "The front door to his building at 201 West 91st was missing, and during the blackout of 1977, he and o...

This week's top dish from Eater, Curbed's restaurant, bar, and nightlife blog... 1) Midtown West: Via seemingly innocuous press materials sent to Eater comes word that the bastion of all that is right with the world, 21 Club, has stopped enforcing its ties-mandatory policy in the dining room (above)...

When NASCAR exec Brian France flipped of one of 15 Central Park West's staff studios, he took some heat. Not for profiting off something as inconsequential as a maid's residence in the Limestone Jesus, but for not profiting enough. France bought the studio for $780,000 and sold it for $1.2 million, ...

It's time for another edition of Adventures in Shilling, in which we fight shilling the best way we can, by shaming tasteless, unscrupulous shills into submission. Well, that's the plan, at least. Fight shills yourself by dropping offensive links to tips@eater.com And now, our first regular edition ...

Press examinations into the Apthorp mess are coming fast and furious (the Times weighed in on the botched condo conversion of the Upper West Side landmark yesterday), but we've had our fill of the legal filings and boring lawyer quotes that most of these reports are based on. For real: One owner is ...