Food

Kings Co. Imperial, a hipster Chinese restaurant from Williamsburg, opened this week alongside the Williamsburg Bridge.

Here's an update to a story we first brought you last week. As you might recall, Dewey Dufresne told us he was temporarily closing BYGGYZ, his sandwich shop on Clinton Street, while he searched for new investors.

The newly expanded Kopitiam is already attracting interest at 151 East Broadway. You remember the traditional Malaysian coffee shop that popped up on Canal Street in 2015.

This weekend at the Hester Street Fair, it's the second annual iced coffee competition. You buy a $10 ticket and are eligible to sample all of the contenders -- and to vote for the winner. The victor will be announced between 5-6 p.m.

You unfortunately only have a few more days to sample Dewey Dufresne's wonderfully creative sandwiches at BYGGYZ on Clinton Street.

Coming up on Wednesday, Lower East Side resident Paul Nasrani will be hosting an ice cream social in the neighborhood to raise awareness of the Syrian Refugee Crisis.

Here are some of the recent stories that have caught our eye on the Lower East Side food scene.

Reaction was swift and heartfelt today after it became known that television personality, chef and author Anthony Bourdain apparently took his own life at a hotel in France.

Here are a few of the restaurant/food items that caught our eye recently:

Three popular Lower East Side businesses are joining the new Essex Street Market when it debuts in a newly expanded space at 115 Delancey St. this coming fall.