Food

Nom Wah Tu closed for good this past weekend. The restaurant at 22 Orchard St. never found an audience after a revamp six months ago.

The first commercial business at Essex Crossing opens for business next week.

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Bake Culture, a trendy Taiwan-based bakery, just opened one of two New York locations at 48 Bowery. The concept was founded by the international pop celebrities, Chun Wu, Vanness Wu and Calvin Chen.

Boubouki, the tiny stall offering authentic Greek food, will be closing for good in the Essex Street Market next week.

There are a few local items of interest on the agenda for tonight's meeting of Community Board 3's liquor licensing committee. Among them is Austrian mixologist Albert Trummer's latest project, a bar going by the name "Lotus Grand" at 324 Grand St.

Here's what's happening on the Lower East Side food scene:

The Lower East Side/Chinatown now has a restaurant specializing in avocados.

The developers of Essex Crossing are starting to reveal some of the vendors that will be part of the Market Line, a large subterranean shopping pavilion.

For Chinatown's Eng family, shutting down Fong Inn Too, the oldest independently-run tofu shop in the U.S., was a painful experience.