A change is ahead at Dora, the 9-month old coffee shop on East Broadway. Nicole Slaven let us know today she's sold the business to Jamie Rogers, a regular customer who lives in an apartment above Dora (at 221...
In neighborhood restaurant news today:
Get your late-afternoon cappucino a little earlier from now until Labor Day: Dora tells us via Facebook they will close at 4 p.m. until then.
Tonight's the finale for music bar Banjo Jim's in the East Village, EV...
It's a busy week in Lower East Side food news:
The Hester Street Fair's season premiere on Saturday gets a lot of love in the media (Time Out, NYDN, Treehugger).
Xi'an Famous Foods announces a May 14 grand opening event at its...
There's lots of food news around the neighborhood this week:
On the pizza front: Hakki Pizza has taken over the Visco discount clothing store space at 123 Essex, at the intersection with Rivington; this week, the former corner store is gutted, Hakki's signs...
Next time you buy a bag of coffee, you can also help out a well-known Lower East Side non-profit. In the last couple of weeks, the coffee shop Dora started stocking "Workforce Blend" from New York-based Plowshares Coffee Roasters.
One...
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...
We'd like to take a moment to welcome our new Annual Sponsors: the Educational Alliance, Dora (the new coffee shop on East Broadway) and the Village Zendo.
Dora is offering a special Valentine's Day deal to readers of The Lo-Down....
Here's a look at the snowy scene on East Broadway near Clinton Street, courtesy our friends at the coffee shop, Dora. In addition to the public schools and city offices, lots of businesses and organizations are closed today. The...
Since we posted Community Board 3's agenda last week, we've been getting quite a few questions from readers about a restaurant that appeared to be moving into 221 East Broadway, the old Mayflower Hotel building. According to the agenda,...
Souvlaki GR's food truck - near Union Square.
In food/restaurant news:
New York Street News has its first big scoop of the year! Souvlaki GR, Vendy Award winner, is going brick-and-mortar on the Lower East Side. The buzz-worthy...
