When Will $20 Cocktails Become the Norm? | First Look at Mission Chinese

Wednesday 23 May 2012 by IrwanKch

WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 2012

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

Learning Curve
Adrian Grenier on His New Mobile Kitchen Classroom Project The actor and filmmaker wants to help the city's kids learn how to cook.
Reopenings
Welcome Back, Matilda It's almost reopening day for the Algonquin.
The Chain Gang
Expect Clover Machines and Champagne at NYC’s ‘Stealth’ Starbucks Starbucks will call their non-branded location Herald Square Café.
Goodwill Gestures
GoogaMooga Organizers Offering Full ExtraMooga Ticket Refunds The fallout from this weekend's disastrous food and music festival continues.
Gastronomics
Gastronomics: When Will $20 Cocktails Become the Norm? A few brave bar owners blazed the trail. Now it's just a matter of everyone else catching up, and it will happen sooner than you think.
Marketing Gimmicks
Controversia: Spanish-Language Pizza Deal Pisses People Off Speak English, dammit!
Crime
Hang Onto Your Handbags at the Cobble Hill Trader Joe’s Petty crime is rampant in the grocery store's aisles.
Giveaways
Happy ‘SlurpFREE Day’ What happened to calling it Free Slurpee Day?
The Other Critics
Tejal Rao Also Checks Out La Vara; Ryan Sutton Deems Neta ‘a Work in Progress’ Plus: Cuozzo at NoMad, Cheshes at Almayass, and more of this week's reviews.
Openings
First Look at Mission Chinese, Now Spicing Up the Lower East Side See the menu and the space of NYC's most-anticipated new opening.
Openings
Plaza Food Hall Expands Today Luke's Lobster, No. 7 Sub, and Sushi of Gari are among the new vendors.
Leftovers
Brewers Bash at Brooklyn Brewery Tonight; Nolita House to Close After Eight Years Plus: Bantam adds a 1,000-square-foot patio, and more of today's leftovers.
Quote of the Day
Alex Stupak Sticks to His Guns Don't tell him his dishes are "off mark."
Up in the Air
Yep, Those Are Meat Balloons All we need now is fro-yo trousers.
Growing Up
Semen-Laced Cupcake Leads to Arson Threats at Minnesota High School Ah, to be young again.
Video Feed
Funny or Die Spoofs Gwyneth Paltrow’s GOOP Learn to make Gwynnie's Fabergé- and dodo-egg frittata!