N.Y. Diet: LaFrieda's Mark Pastore | New York's Great Premade Picnic Baskets

Friday, 15 July 2011 by IrwanKch

FRIDAY, JULY 15, 2011

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

Openings
Old Stella D’oro Factory to Become BJ’s Club The cookie factory closed in 2009 after 87 years in the city.
Marketing Gimmicks
New York Merchants Dish About Working With Google Offers "Our special is only for $10. So, you know, we believe that people will spend more than that."
The Great Outdoors
Pic-a-nic Time: A Guide to New York’s Great Premade Picnic Baskets (With a Map!) Where to track down twelve of the best ready-to-eat baskets in the city.
Sweet News
Steve’s Craft Ice Cream Will Be ‘Curated and Composed’ A Boston company that pioneered candy and sugary mix-ins is starting over in New York.
Marketing Gimmicks
South Park Fans Should Get Ready for Real, Live Cheesy Poofs Cheesy Poofs are headed to a Wal-Mart near you.
The Food Chain
Holeman & Finch Chef Linton Hopkins Adores the Speck With Porcini and Egg at Table in Asheville "The egg was charged in a canister and piped out. You had these little blob dollops that were like a hollandaise, almost."
Community Boards
CB2 Committee Denies Liquor Application for Iconic Gay Bar Over Fears of Smoking and ‘Sex Acts in Doorways’ Pieces will have to rethink their relocation plans.
Nightlife
With Mama Shelter Heading to Bushwick, Paris-Cocktail-Scene Invasion Is Official New York's mixology world is about to get rocked, argues one insider.
Truckin'
Zach Brooks: Food Vendors Are Best When They’re ‘Outlaws’ Recent crackdowns are changing the street food landscape of the city.
Film Buffs
Harry Potter Makes Paul Liebrandt Happy, Sad But Frank Bruni is removed from the whole phenomenon.
Mediavore
Healthy Vending Machines on the Rise; Universal Theme Park Offering Butterbeer Plus: You might not need eight glasses of water a day, and more, in our morning news roundup.
The Grub Street Diet
LaFrieda’s Mark Pastore Conducts ‘Quality Control’ Visits to Shake Shack, Eats Plenty of Steak Just About Everywhere Else "Fat people don’t like to go to Minetta Tavern because they get stuck in the corner."
Neighborhood Watch
Free Pig Roast at Bubby’s Brooklyn; Dinner on Hotel Chantelle’s Rooftop Plus: Danish food hits Tribeca, Bathtub Gin heads to Chelsea, and more, in our daily roundup of neighborhood news.
Interviews
King Cole’s Longest-Tenured Bartender Talks Bloody Marys and Salvador Dalí Louis Rodopoulos gives us the classic drink's "original" recipe and tells us about Dalí's ocelot.
Openings
What to Expect From Brooklyn ‘Cocktail Emporium’ Whiskey Tango Foxtrot For starters, just call it Foxtrot.
Reopenings
Compose Will Be Called Atera When It Reopens This Fall We doubt it's related to the Indonesian radio station of the same name.
The James Weird Awards
The James Weird Awards: P.F. Chang’s Brawlers, Pastafarians, and Taco Bell Art Thieves Plus: thrown peanuts, stolen ambulances, saved lives, and more, all in this week's roundup of weird restaurant news.