First Look at Todd English's CrossBar | Can Flavaboom Make Fro-Yo Cool Again?

Tuesday, 31 May 2011 by IrwanKch

TUESDAY, MAY 31, 2011

Daily New York Food News from NYMag.com & MenuPages.com

Openings
First Look at Todd English’s CrossBar, Now Open in the Ever-Evolving Limelight Marketplace A nose-to-tail pig concept; plus, the Limelight Marketplace will soon be a department store.
Other Cities
Lines at Papaya King L.A. After just a week.
Closings
Wurst Case: Brats Has Closed And Little Cheese Pub has taken over the space.
Openings
Strangely Named Hachember Replaces LES Oddball Patate Fellow The wackiness continues at 71 Clinton Street.
Openings
Can Flavaboom Make Fro-Yo Cool Again? Fro-yo is so 2008, but this new shop tries to be '2010: A Space Odyssey.'
Openings
Battery Park City Shake Shack Opens Tomorrow The latest Shack is ready to go.
Quote of the Day
Our Kind of Rule Ruth Reichl, on $1 duck buns.
Questionable Practices
Beer Brewers Uncover Solution to Pesky Brooklyn Branding Name things after the Bronx instead.
Iconoclasm
Does Prune Contain New York’s Worst Table? And do we smell the backlash beginning?
In the Magazine
Adam Platt on Brushstroke; Where to Dine in Chicago Plus: the Robs on the city's recent openings, and more, in this week's 'New York.'
Mediavore
Dogs in China: Friend or Food?; European E. Coli Outbreak Kills Fourteen Plus: diet in athletics reconsidered, New York servers ditch notepads, and more, in our morning news roundup.