You can almost smell the pizza cooking in the oven. Mark Bello’s “Pizza a Casa” just put up signage on Grand Street (just east of Essex). No. it’s not another place to get a slice. “It’s a “pizza self-sufficiency center.” For the full scoop, you can have a look at the story we did on [...]

I waited until mid-afternoon to check out the “most important restaurant to open in mid-March.” By 2:30 pm, I assumed, the foodie blogosphere (Eater, Grub Street, Guest of a Guest, etc.) would have stumbled back to their offices from a boozie breakfast/lunch. But Pulino’s, Keith McNally’s new hot spot on the Bowery was still hoppin’ [...]

Our friends at the Henry Street Settlement are looking forward to an interesting event taking place in their beautifully restored dining room at 265 Henry Street Friday evening. The New Amsterdam Market is holding a Winter Night Banquet, an “exploration of the region and its seasons.” It’s a multi-course dinner benefiting the market’s School of [...]

The other day, we reported the City Council was taking a look at whether the Hotel on Rivington’s sidewalk cafe license should be renewed. Today, they signed off on a two-year renewal, affirming a recent decision from the Department of Consumer Affairs. In 2007, the city decided to approve the original sidewalk permit, in spite [...]

This just in from the New York Times: Il Laboratorio del Gelato, the gourmet icecream shrine on Orchard Street, is moving into a huge new space on Ludlow, just below Houston, in June. Owner Jon Snyder tells Florence Fabricant he’s leased a spot at 188 Ludlow (apparently the ground-floor commercial space in the luxury apartment [...]

The Hotel on Rivington might have to fight to keep its sidewalk cafe.  Yesterday the City Council voted to review the “action of the Department of Consumer Affairs approving an unenclosed sidewalk cafe located at 107 Rivington Street.” In 2007, Community Board 3 opposed the hotel’s original application, saying Rivington is a “narrow street which [...]