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LES Bites: Viktor & Spoils, Pho 88, Forcella

This morning's Lower East Side food/restaurant news: Viktor & Spoils, the new tequila bar and taqueria in the Hotel on Rivington, opens Thursday. Zagat has a preview, as does Urban Daddy. Two Lower East Side restaurants make it onto the dreaded...

Clerkenwell To Relaunch As Kupersmith

Clerkenwell at 49 Clinton St. is undergoing a makeover and rebranding. Stefan Ching’s English gastropub relaunches on Friday, November 11 as Kupersmith, the name of the ladies’ dress shop that occupied the building in the 1940s. The restaurant will...

LES Bites: Veselka Bowery, Forcella, Masala Wala, Sesame Pancakes, Selling Dog Meat (or not)

Some food headlines from around the neighborhood: Veselka Bowery plans to actually, finally open tomorrow. (Facebook) Speaking of the Bowery, Forcella, the new Neapolitan pizzeria out of Williamsburg, is gaining traction among pie-lovers. (Zagat) Masala Wala finally opened on Essex Street this...
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JP’s Food Adventures: What to Do With Winter Squash

We’ve had our first snow, the nights are cool and the leaves are falling. I’ve reluctantly put my sandals away, and stopped eating Caprese salads. No denying autumn is here, and with it the desire for fall flavors. Winter...

LES Bites: Prima, Xi’an Famous Foods, Pickle Fest

Today's Lower East Side food headlines: Time Out reports: Motorino’s Mathieu Palombino is among a group of neighborhood restaurant-types opening Prima, an all-day cafe on East 1st Street. Eater interviews Jason Wang od Xi'an Famous Foods. Ben Towill of Fat Radish shares...

A Knish Crisis: What’s a Guy to Do? Give ‘Em Away!

Earlier this month, we featured Knishery NYC, a new venture reinterpreting a Lower East Side classic.  Noah Wildman, a Lower East Side resident, planned to debut his bite-sized knishes at this weekend's Hester Street Fair. When word came late...
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LES Bites: Orchard House, Forcella, Knish NYC

Here's your Friday afternoon Lower East Sde food/restaurant roundup: APL, 146 Orchard Street, is being re-branded. Grub Street has the menus for version 2.0, Orchard House, opening November 11th. Eater brings news of Forcella, the Williamsburg-based pizza parlor now open on...

LES Bites: Donnybrook, Sons of Essex, Peking Duck House

This morning's Lower East Side food/restaurant news: We hear from Donnybrook co-owner Meghan Joye that the Clinton Street bar added weekday lunch service. On the menu: pressed sandwiches, soups, stews, salads and charcuterie plates. Lunch is served 11:30 a.m.-4 p.m. ...

White Slab Palace is Shuttered Again

White Slab Palace is closed once again.  A "Zagat Buzz agent" noticed this cryptic sign posted outside the troubled bar, at 77 Delancey Street. "After being harassed by the 7th Precinct for months and months," it says, the quirky...
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JP’s Food Adventures: The Best Banh Mi on the LES

Banh mi shops have popped up like mushrooms across Manhattan over the last few years. I think it has to be a consequence of the economic downturn. How else to explain the culinary craze surrounding this once  esoteric, frugal...
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