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Veuve Cliquot Names World's Best Female Chef 2014, Cue Mixed Feelings
We'd never take the thrill of an award away from any lady chef, but we will huff passive aggressively over some of the language in her Veuve Cliquot bio.
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Dairy Queen Insults Staten Island by Forgetting They're Part of New York City
This morning, Dairy Queen made a grand proclamation, announcing in a press release "its official entry into New York City"! Yes! The Big Apple! The City That Never Sleeps! The land of Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, The Bronx, and Totally Not Staten Island!
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WATCH: Coffee Porn with Ferran Adria at Eataly in Spanish
Coffee mousse in a teeny espresso cup and spherified coffee caviar will provide all the escapism your dreary Tuesday morning needs.
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Marcus Samuelsson Hosts Benefit Dinner For Harlem Explosion Victims
Marcus Samuelsson, fervid champion of Harlem, has stepped up to host the first restaurant fundraiser we've heard of to benefit victims of the explosion at Ginny's Supper Club, Red Rooster Harlem's speakeasy.
Restaurant Closings
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Closing Restaurant Asks Customers to Help Drink 1,300 Bottles of Wine
With the sad closing of Manhattan’s ‘inoteca comes a boozy silver lining: the restaurant invited the public to come help them drink through over 1,300 deeply-discounted bottles of fine wine in its famed cellar.
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PHOTO: The Final, Periodic Table of Elements-Themed Menu at Graham Elliot
Graham Elliot’s eponymous, flagship, Michelin-starred Chicago restaurant is closing after New Year’s to reopen in a new location with a somewhat overhauled aesthetic, and he’s just released the final menu Graham Elliot as we know it will ever serve.
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Closed Italian Restaurant In Texas Blasts Customers as ‘Redneck Sacks of Goat Sperm’
Right now, the bitterest of bitter restaurant closing announcements is exploding on the internet.
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Take Bobby Flay’s Stuff: Recently-Shuttered Mesa Grill Auctions Off All Its Things
Though the closure of his first restaurant hardly foretells the end of his culinary empire, Bobbymandias still needs to offload a lot of stuff.
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Fire Breaks Out At Tim Love’s Lonesome Dove
A fire broke out at Tim Love’s flagship restaurant, The Lonesome Dove Western Bistro, early this morning in Fort Worth, TX.
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Graham Elliot Closes His Chicago Sandwich Shop Grahamwich
After the successful opening of his third, church/rock-themed Chicago restaurant g.e.b., we didn’t expect Graham Elliot’s sophomore space — a sandwich shop dubbed Grahamwich to close quite so soon.
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Landlord Shuts Down Ray’s Hell Burger; Now Where Will Obama Go On Dates With Biden?
Apparently Ray’s Hell Burger been undergoing a really bad breakup with its landlord, who’s taken on the role of Beyonce and has thrown all of Ray’s stuff on the sidewalk.
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Employees Of Legendary Brennan’s Restaurant Worried They Won’t Get Paid
Though the closure of Brennan’s Restaurant, a French Quarter mainstay, is sad enough, the restaurant’s loyal workers are worried about a new development: they might not get their last paycheck.
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Landlords Kick Todd English Out Of Flagship Restaurant Olives, English Pretends It Was His Idea All Along
The English have historically been screwed over by Boston, as yesterday should have reminded every red-blooded American, and in a symbolic attempt to celebrate its birthday, Parks and Recreation-style, Boston symbolically kicked out an English. Specifically, they kicked Todd English out of his flagship restaurant, Olives.
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Eddie Huang’s Parents Sell Their Restaurant To Hooters And Retire, Sifton Tweets
We’re gonna assume that Sifton means the Cattleman’s Steakhouse in Orlando, owned by the Elder Huang, and we’re also going to assume that Sifton refers to the Hooters known for their mild preoccupation with breasts.
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