It's a newsy week on the Lower East Side restaurant scene. Some midweek headlines:
In a very personal interview, ramen guru Ivan Orkin tells The Daily News his Clinton Street spot will open later this month.
Eater has a slideshow of Antonioni's, the...
A roundup of the neighborhood food news this week:
The Hester Street Fair is on hiatus this weekend due to the Sukkot holiday, but it returns Oct. 22 with the Grub Street Food Festival, which promises great vendors and more...
Today's weather will be very similar to yesterday's, with lots of sun and highs in the low 80s.
Today we'll be checking in on stories we've been following this week, and meet the folks behind Macaron Parlour as part of...
Looks like the Lower East Side can finally get Grumpy this morning. Yesterday via Twitter, Cafe Grumpy signaled that they were ready for opening day at 13 Essex Street. A bakery supplying all of the coffee shop's locations has...
As we've been anticipating, Cafe Grumpy's newest outpost is due to open soon at 13 Essex Street. How soon? In about two weeks, if inspections go well, says Michael Rozinski, the CEO of Simply Divine Renovation, who was at the site of the new...
The transformation at 13 Essex is almost complete. The former home of Judaica store Zelig Blumenthal is now occupied by Cafe Grumpy, the Brooklyn/Chelsea artisanal coffee purveyor. They've taken both storefronts. According to a sign on the door, the...
One day way back in 2006, Mike Caswell spent several hours people-watching on the block of Orchard Street between Broome and Grand streets. The midtown real estate broker Caswell had hired to help him choose a site for the...
Last week we reported the gourmet coffee shop, Cafe Grumpy, is moving into 13 Essex. There's more news today about this tenement buiding, the onetime home of Judaica store, Zelig Blumenthal.
In the past few months, the apartments above this...
The coffee blogs (we live in a very specialized world) had the story a few days ago. A friend of The Lo-Down pointed out to us that Cafe Grumpy, the Chelsea/Greenpoint gourmet chainlet, is coming to the Lower East...
