Lower East Side Food

In today's pre-holiday edition of The Lo-Dine: Bowery Boogie notices that Il Laboratorio del Gelato is coming back to Orchard Street. The Village Voice writes admiringly of the three star dumplings at Dim Sum Go Go. Grub Street profiles the stylish staff...

In Lower East Side food news: Beauty & Essex debuts Sunday brunch service this weekend. Dessert Truck Works announces the "Street to Table Dinner Series." Fork in the Road notes that Imperial Tavern has not reopened, in spite of a sign in...

Community Board 3 is out with its February agenda.  A look at the  SLA Committee docket (cruelly scheduled for Feb. 14th) reveals a few items of note: The Snack Dragon taco shack hopes to get a beer and wine license...

In Lower East Side food/restaurant news: Michael Huynh is changing the concept at 154 Orchard again. Bia Garden never caught on, so he planned a course correction, turning the place into an Asian tacos destination. Weeks after the new venture...

Robert Sietsema checks out the new and improved "Fried Dumpling," the city's first one dollar dumpling joint. Same great dumplings plus a few additions to the menu, including brisket soup (Fork in the Road). Veselka owner Tom Birchard says Veselka...

While some of you seem to have found it on your own, today we're officially debuting our new food page.  By clicking on the "Food" link at the top of The Lo-Down's home page, you'll be taken to (please...

  Stuffed Artisan Cannolis opened with fanfare last night on Stanton Street (176 Stanton).  Free champagne and Halloween-themed cannolis with candy corn were served to all who stopped by.  Some of the flavors already being sold at...

Scallop Crudo, at Allen & Delancey, with Lime Vinaigrette, Pink Peppercorns, Shiso, and Trout Roe.The restaurant Allen & Delancey's (115 Allen St. at Delancey) newly installed chef Ryan Skeen tells Grubstreet why things didn't work out at Irving...

Although the new tile floor that has been underway at the Essex Market for some weeks now is still a bumpy work-in-progress, I was able to find plenty of treats for our weekly Essex Street Market Report:I started...

Russ & Daughters' blog, Lox Populi, boasts of making it on to Anthony Burdain's list of "13 Places to Eat Before You Die" in this month's issue of Men's Health.  Tony also suggests going down the street to eat...