Just a note to our readers to clarify a story we wrote in August about two LES pizzerias that drew criticism from the city health department: Va Bene Pizza at 201 Clinton St., which was shut down after an inspection (and later reopened)...
Va Bene Pizza, at 201 E. Clinton St. near East Broadway, was shut down by health inspectors Tuesday after receiving 81 points for sanitary violations.
Va Bene was cited for eight violations, six of them rated critical. The critical violations included...
It's been a big week in restaurant and bar news on the LES. In addition to our stories about APL earlier today and Melt Bakery coming up later, here's a roundup of other food happenings:
Late last night as we...
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...