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New Year's Eve Guide: Wild Card

More Guy Fieri Bashing, Michael Anthony at Yale

Anthony Bourdain called Guy Fieri's new restaurant a "terror-dome." He blamed Fieri for "single-handedly turning the neighborhood into the 'Ed Hardy district,'" and mused that the sunglasses-wearing chef "set back spelling two decades." [Sirius XM] The guys over at Big Gay Ice Cream also visited F ... More >>

How to Speak Republican

Leaked document reveals the secrets of the GOP's coded language

Neta: Cool Fish, Cool Place

Two Masa alums bend the sushi rules in the West Village

Little Sheep Mongolian Hot Pot Expanding To New York

Little Sheep Mongolian Hot Pot, an internationally acclaimed hot pot brand, is marking their expansion to the East Coast with a store in Flushing. The restaurant is set to open early to mid May. According to Peter Yang, the East Coast operations manager of Little Sheep International, the company is ... More >>

New York Declared Pretty Good City for Mustaches

Along with its numerous and evident charms that extend beyond the facial hair variety, New York is good with mustaches. The American Mustache Institute (yes!) has published the results of a two-year study on which cities people with mustaches would most feel comfortable residing. The methodology is ... More >>

Smoking Is Dead; Long Live Smoking!

​New Yorkers, brave New Yorkers, have largely kicked that old, nasty, but sometimes oddly seductive habit of putting semi-flammable cancer-causing objects in their mouths and lighting them. Today Mayor Bloomberg said that the number of smoking New Yorkers is down to 14 percent. Back in 2002 th ... More >>

Artists Reveal the Tunes They Work To

The sonic muses of Terry Winters, Lisa Yuskavage, John Chiara, Jaime Hernandez, Demetrius Oliver, and James Casebere

Americans: Fat and Wary of Healthful Menu Options

​America, we have been told yet again, is fat. Especially the part known as Mississippi. We're so fat, in fact, that today, the state with the lowest obesity rate (that would be Colorado) would have had the country's highest rate in 1995.

Denny's Is the Chain Most Likely to Go Bankrupt (Except, Like, Soul Daddy)

Soul DaddyJamawn Woods, Restaurateur No More​Soul Daddy, the winning concept of America's Next Great Restaurant, has shuttered its third and final location, in Minnesota's Mall of America (the New York City location closed a few weeks ago). According to the company, "The restaurant simply was ... More >>

Black Joe Lewis & the Honey Bears

La Silhouette Jumps in la Time Machine

A West '50s restaurant dials it back a few decades

Chains Change Alcohol Policy After Drunk Toddler Incidents, Inadvertently Make Better Drinks

​In addition to changing its decor to emulate the Home Depots farmhouses of Tuscany, Olive Garden is altering its beverage policy following an incident last month where a toddler was served sangria instead of orange juice. And the chain isn't alone: as Nation's Restaurant News reports, in the ... More >>

How to Know If You Have a Drunk Toddler on Your Hands: 10 Easy Clues

The drunk baby in "Las Palmas"​There's been a spree of drunk toddlers of late. Perhaps that brazen child who wrecked the bar in the short film "Las Palmas" has been a bad influence. Perhaps that was just a short film that no babies watched anyway. But either way, in the span of one week, we h ... More >>

Donald Trump Buys a Winery; Potential 'Drinking Gene' Isolated

​A small winemaking cooperative in southern Bosnia and Herzegovina is working with six Croats and a Serb to revive ancient regional wine traditions -- and put the horrors of the Bosnian war to rest. [Reuters] Francis Ford Coppola has lured rockstar winemaker Phillipe Bascaules from Château M ... More >>

Numerous Americans Say 'I Love You' With Olive Garden

​If you are reading this and haven't made any Valentine's Day dining plans, you are screwed. Unless you are one of the millions of Americans who apparently think that Olive Garden is a desirable destination for romantic dining.

Mochi Kills Japanese Revelers; Food Safety Bill to Be Signed Today

​Mochi, or sticky rice cakes, popular on New Year's Eve in Japan, send hundreds of people -- mostly aged 60 and over -- to the hospital each year, making it the most suffocating food in the country. [Wall Street Journal] Bison ranchers are having a hard time keeping up with the growing demand ... More >>

Artist or Con Artist? What Ever Happened to Mark Kostabi?

Chuck E. Cheese Recalls Toys; Forbes Launches Food Site

​Chuck E. Cheese is recalling 1.2 million toy light-up rings following incidents of children swallowing the battery or sticking it up their nose. [Nation's Restaurant News] China warned that the worst offenders of food safety rules would get the death penalty. Two people were already executed ... More >>

Behold The Musical Spoils Of The Brooklyn Book Festival

​Ah, the Brooklyn Book Festival, a five-year-old, free, all-day blowout of panels, readings, and extraordinary quasi-literary happenings, where you might see, say, Ian MacKaye complaining about people who say "just type it in" when they mean "Google it." (On a panel with Thurston Moore and Lup ... More >>

Live: Salt-N-Pepa, Naughty By Nature, And Slick Rick Do "Old-School Night" At Wingate Field

Still talking about sex, albeit very briefly. Pics by Rebecca Smeyne, more below.​Salt-N-Pepa/Naughty by Nature/Slick Rick Wingate Field Monday, August 2 "Y'all look like a free concert out here," notes Salt wryly, shortly before launching into "I'll Take Your Man" in front of, indeed, thousa ... More >>

Today in 'Duh': A List of 40 Desserts That Are Really, Really Fattening

Applebee's chocolate chip sundae: not recommended for weight loss.​Taking a page from Men's Health, The Daily Beast has thoughtfully published a list of the 40 restaurant desserts most likely to cause death among those who consume them.

Charles Gabriel on his Frying Secrets, KFC, and Trendy Chicken

Robert Sietsema​Yesterday, we brought you part one of an interview with Charles Gabriel of Charles Country Pan Fried Chicken. Today, in the second half of the interview, Gabriel tells us about his fried chicken technique, his thoughts on how trendy fried chicken has gotten, and sounds off on ... More >>

Luck of the Irish: Dept. of Transportation Worker Punished for St. Paddy's Day Cheer

​What's on the other side of the rainbow for you? If it's a leprechaun protecting a treasure and a field of shamrocks, protect your neck and avoid that shit at all costs. Because your St. Patrick's Day cheer - like trans fats, and soda, and salt - is now considered illicit and/or heavily taxab ... More >>

Times: New Storefront Art Shows Like Old Kind, Except Fancy, Curated

​Last week we mentioned that some city-owned rental space, even in buildings one imagined would be very rentable (the Staten Island Ferry terminal, for example) were being offered free to artists to use as exhibition spaces. Today the Times tells us the city's not the only landlord to give ov ... More >>

Give the Vivian Girls a Break

The Applebee's-loving reverb queens triumphantly return with more of the same

Watch Live Footage of the Vivian Girls Show Tuesday at Death By Audio

This most certainly won't be our last reference to the Vivian Girls' show two days ago at Death by Audio or their upcoming sophomore release, Everything Goes Wrong. Nor will it be the last time this publication uses the chain name "Applebees" in the same breathe as Kickball Katy or "bathtub." (Fol ... More >>

Chili's Big Mouth Bites Blow Big Macs Out of the Water; Midtown Lunch Founder Profiled

Starbucks plans to launch a healthy new menu later this month that will feature baked goods without high-fructose corn syrup or artificial flavors, as well as salads and other items. The new menu will be advertised with the slogan "Real Food. Simply Delicious." [Reuters] If you think a Big Mac has ... More >>

Sriracha, Spotted Everywhere

While eating with my in-laws at a stodgy fish restaurant in suburban Massachusetts, I asked the waiter for Sriracha, almost just to see what he would say. But he nodded knowingly, and brought out a dish of the red, garlicky hot sauce. That's when you know that Sriracha has hit the mainstream. That, ... More >>

Sarah Palin's Latest Fiery Showdown

On the April 6 Tyra, the guest is Levi Johnston, the hapless guy who impregnated Sarah Palin's daughter Bristol, but who at least got lucky enough to not go through with the whole thing. Well, Palin is spitting mad that Levi has gone public with his views, and her official response, through a fam ... More >>

Merry Coney Closing Christmas from Thor Equities!

MGMT Dresses Up as Pilgrims on the Internet, Web Sheriff Sends Cease-and-Desist on Behalf of the Mayflower

Contra That Last Post: On the Vivian Girls In A Bathtub, A Cheerleader Pyramid, Etc

Fried Green Tomatoes, Shrimp, and Grits at BedStuy's Peaches Market

A Southern-style café that fits in like it's been there for years

Dolly Parton's Boobs and Pharrell Williams' Balls

Parton also reveals her pray-to-play policy. Plus: The revolution doesn't start without me.

Grand Buffet's Joke-Rap Odyssey

Now Hiring: Pinkberry, Red Mango, Dave Martin, and Fort Greene Finally Goes Gourmet

House of Blues

A couple of "off-evenings" in another midtown meet market

In the Spirit of Prohibition

Too obscure and unfabulous to attract seekers of "real New York" nightlife

Spirited Diners

Bleat on the Brats

Emo-goth bill isn't exactly Top-8 material

NY Mirror

Pub Crawl: Spring Break in New York?

The bar scene at Time Square’s casual dining chains

Plains Lounge

You can't go home again: Buscemi's miserablist home movie tracks sullen scribe's homecoming

Would You Like Shrimp With That?

Casual dining goes overboard with Surf 'n' Turf

Close-Up on Bedford-Stuyvesant

If You Can't Make It Here, Try Your Hometown Applebee's

Drinker's Paradise

Chill Out With Frozen Daiquiris, Cool Coladas, Iced Vodkas, and Much, Much More

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