A few food and drink updates around the LES.
- The ever-popular annual Grub Street Food Festival returns to the Hester Street Fair for its fifth year on Oct. 5; check out the vendor list here.
- In a column for Vice’s Munchies blog, Mission Chinese Chef Angela Dimayuga divulges some of the inspirations behind her menu, and discusses plans for her restaurant’s imminent move to Rosette’s space. Also, the restaurant is now hiring on site at 171 E. Broadway.
- In light of Mission Chinese’s move, Grub Street looks at the phenomenon of restaurants that reversed the trend in a “cursed” space, including SakaMai, at 157 Ludlow St.
- Milk & Honey, Sasha Petraske’s groundbreaking cocktail bar that launched on Eldridge Street and then moved to the Flatiron District, will be homeless next month and may come back downtown, the NYT reports.
- Vogue dives into the new cookbook from Orchard Street’s The Fat Radish.
- Yopparai, the 30-seat LES izakaya on Rivington Street, is collaborating with Katsuyama Brewery for a limited-time $90 prix-fixe menu with guided high-end sake pairings all week. A representative from the 300-year-old brewery, one of the most revered sake breweries in Japan, will be on hand to guide diners through the six-course tasting menu.
- Citing violations related to vermin and cleanliness, the city’s health department inspectors have shut Congee Bowery, the Chinese restaurant at 98 Bowery, DNA Info reports. (Note: It is not related to Congee Bowery restaurant at 207 Bowery, whose sister restaurant is Congee Village on Allen Street.)
