A tipster tells us that Washington Place is currently blocked off while the First Couple enjoys dinner before they catch Joe Turner’s Come and Gone at the Belasco.
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Date Night With the Obamas: Dinner at Blue Hill?
The Universal Record Database tells us it has just added Denny’s to its compendium of wacky world records, for Most Free Breakfasts Served in 24 Hours . Perusing other food feats mentioned on the site, we’re not surprised to see that Scanwiches bested its rival sandwich-scanning blog in order to take the record for Most Scanned Images of Sandwiches on a Website . We’re pretty sure any New York food blogger could shatter the record of 30 consecutive pork dishes consumed
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Local Man Names 30 Jewish Delis in a Minute
H&H reopened its Upper West Side location this afternoon after paying $25,466 in taxes, but it looks like they still have a ways to go. According to City Room, “The entities that own the main store, at 2239 Broadway, and the related bagel-making plant, at 639 West 46th Street, owed a total of more than $100,000 in unpaid taxes, and numerous efforts to make them pay had been unsuccessful, said Tom Bergin, a spokesman for the [State Department of Taxation and Finance].” [ City Room/NYT ] Read more posts by Daniel Maurer Filed Under: h&h bagels , reopenings , taxes
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H&H Reopens
CityFile has done what we’ve all dreamed of: getting into Padma Lakshmi’s East Village apartment! Well, they’ve published photos of it, anyway, along with news that she sold it for $0 to something called the Delicious Trust. But what’s up with the phone number next to Padma’s signature — could it really be the diva’s digits?
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Inside Padma’s Pad
It’s 4 p.m., and that means it’s time to play Two for Eight. We just asked ten restaurants the best time they can squeeze a couple in for dinner; you need only make your chosen reservation. (As always, we make the calls but don’t guarantee the results.) Today: Haute Barnyard.
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Tables Available at Telepan; Blue Hill Fully Booked
On June 22 at Pier 54, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center is throwing a Garden Party hosted by Ruth Reichl that will include appearances by Rebecca Charles ( Pearl Oyster Bar ), Dave Pasternak ( Esca ), and Daniel Angerer ( Klee Brasserie ), as well as food from about 40 restaurants. Before you fork over the $90 minimum entry fee/donation, know that the silent-auction items do not include a date with Tom “the Bear” Colicchio or the opportunity to eat sushi off of Gordon “Gay Icon” Ramsay .
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Garden Party Promises to Be a Gay Old Time
Have a question about your routine or anything fitness-related? Send it Raphael’s way at askraphael@ediets.com . Hello Raphael, My personal trainer had me hanging from my arms in leather straps, pulling my knees up for a great stomach workout
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Ask Raphael: Lower Back Support
Okay, so you weren’t invited to the ritzy, glitzy Food, Inc. premiere because your name isn’t Dan Barber and you’re not sure you want to ride your vintage bike all the way from Gowanus to midtown, that epicenter of corporate-capitalist ickiness, for the premiere at the Times Center . Fear not! Brooklyn Based is hosting a premiere at the Bell House at 7:45 p.m.
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Food, Inc.: The Brooklocavore Premiere!
Some hipster hilarity from Metromix’s Twitter : “Spotted last night at Brooklyn Star, via @ryanmuir: A couple shadily pouring a BYOB Coors into a teacup.” Still not as weird as what we saw at the Redhead last night: A couple walked in and asked for a Guinness and a Manhattan— each.
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Bring Your Own Coors
Philippe Chow’s people tell us that he’s banning shark-fin soup at his restaurants and urging other Asian restaurants to do the same. (Mako sharks are listed by the World Wildlife Federation as one of the ten most endangered species, along with Beluga sturgeon.) The timing is a little curious — in a recent Guardian rant , Jay Rayner called Nobu owner Richie Notar “spineless” for keeping bluefin on the menu at the insistence of his sushi chefs, albeit (in the case of its London restaurants) with an asterisk suggesting that diners ask for an alternative since the fish is “environmentally challenged.” So is Philippe trying to out-green Nobu, or trying to avoid a similar imbroglio? (The restaurant was on a list of offenders circulated by the Animal Welfare Institute.) Philippe had previously tried to source sharks in “the most environmentally friendly manner” possible, but as the foie-gras demonstrations proved, sometimes that’s just not good enough.
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Philippe Bans Shark Fin As Nobu Hedges on Bluefin
“My waitresses are hands-down the most beautiful waitress staff in the Hamptons,” says Mike Satsky (formerly of Stereo) about Lily Pond. Regarding his top-secret nightspot opening in Manhattan in September: “It’s going to change the direction of nightlife in New York City and bring a real different flavor to the United States.” [ Daily Transom ] Read more posts by Daniel Maurer Filed Under: lily pond , mike satsky , nightlife , quote of the day , stereo
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Douchebragging
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – When Jim Hann learned he would be laid off, he scheduled surgery to donate a kidney to his wife.
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Uninsured face avalanche of health costs
The products offered in the in-flight shopping catalog SkyMall range from novel to nifty to nonsensical.
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The Stars of SkyMall
We checked in with Danny Meyer’s folks to see whether he’ll be serving, say, that corn dog that Serious Eats liked so much at his concession stand at the Delacorte Theater , and here’s their official statement: “Although there is no signed deal at this time, Union Square Hospitality Group’s Hudson Yards would welcome the exciting opportunity to create and operate the new food and beverage concession at The Public Theater at The Delacorte in Central Park.
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Danny Meyer Still Working on a Deal at Delacorte
We’ve shown you the dumping of the sand , and the smoothing over — now let’s take a look at the finished product. Here she is — the newest Water Taxi Beach. In addition to the menu items you’ve already seen, there’s what chef Harry Hawk is trumpeting as an authentic Baja-style fish taco (after a research trip to Ensanada, he settled on using canola oil instead of deep-frying his cod)
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A Closer Look at Water Taxi Beach at South Street Seaport
It’s not quite as bizarre as Richard Blais shilling for Red Stripe by chilling beer with liquid nitrogen , but Le Tourment Vert has tapped evil baldie Stefan Richter to create food for a media-only absinthe pairing taking place at a secret location. We may just go, if only to ask Richter whatever became of that memoir he was going to publish this month .
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Stefan Richter in the House: Evil Baldie Joins Forces With Green Fairy
Daniel Boulud and friend In case his Twitter feed wasn’t illuminating enough, Gourmet asked San Francisco offal aficionado Chris Cosentino to tell them everything he ate during a day, the first installment in a series called “My Day on a Plate.” Dude knocks back fourteen double espressos a day, but the most shocking part of the feature is how similar it is to our own New York Diet ! Ah well, as any chef can tell you, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Gourmet , when you’re slotting in chefs, just remember that we already know about the eating habits of Jean-Georges Vongerichten , Dan Barber , Spike Mendelsohn , Govind Armstrong , Fabio Viviani , Andrew Carmellini , Rachael Ray , Alex Guarnaschelli , Lidia Bastianich , Anne Burrell , Marco Pierre White , Gavin Kaysen , Hung Huynh , Daniel Boulud , Odette Fada , and Eric Ripert .
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Gourmet’s New Food-Diary Column Seems ‘Offal’ Familiar
In late March, just before the baseball season began, the Yankees announced the Legends Culinary Series, a catering program for premium seating that would bring top New York chefs to the Yankees Legends Club Suite, an exclusive bar and cafeteria-style restaurant on the field level. The format at Legends is closer to buffet than proper sit-down, but that doesn’t automatically make it bad.
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Yankees Post Starting-Chef Lineup
After briefly reopening last December as Frog Caf
