Food Wire: Xi’an Famous Foods, Pulino’s, Hotel on Rivington

In Lower East Side food news:

• Xi’an Famous Foods is about to open a second location next to the Chinatown Ice Cream Factory on Bayard Street.

• Pulino’s debuts its new breakfast menu.

• Eater reports the Hotel on Rivington has “inked a deal with corporate food provider Chef and Company… the new partnership, (hopes) to piggyback off the success of Beauty and Essex, (by) converting Matt Levine’s former Levant East area into a restaurant focused on small plates and sharing.”  CV, the hotel’s small nightlife venue, “will turn into a tequila bar, including a taco stand.”