Ed Brown

With Compelling Arguments and a Shoestring Budget, Unacceptable Levels Feels Like a Family's Home Movie

Elettra Wiedemann Launches Goodness, a Pop-Up Restaurant for Fashionistas (Or At Least Those Who Eat)

Josh OlinsNot your average pop-up chef​Over the past year, we've seen many a chef get into the pop-up restaurant, but the person behind one of New York City's most recent pop-ups is a bit, well, prettier than those who have come before her. Elettra Wiedemann, a model who is the face of Lancô ... More >>

Jean-Georges Vongerichten Boxes Hugh Jackman; Amanda Freitag Dreams of Cooking in a Field

​Simon Oren, a partner in Nice Matin, Marseille, Barbounia, and Five Napkin Burger, is expected to take over the space that once occupied Ed Brown's Eighty One, and is currently hunting for a chef. [Grub Street] Jean-Georges Vongerichten spars with actor Hugh Jackman in season five of the Su ... More >>

Eric Korsh 'in' at Waverly Inn; Jody Williams 'out' at Gottino

​Eric Korsh has been enlisted to take over the kitchen at Waverly Inn while John DeLucie is on leave opening The Lion. Korsh has had stints at Prune and Patroon, and was the chef-owner of the now-defunct Eloise in Sebastopol, California. [NY Times] Jody Williams has reportedly left West Villa ... More >>

Mario Batali Accused of Labor Violations; The City's Best Restaurant Breads

​The final episode of Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution on ABC had mediocre ratings, earning less less than 4 million viewers and losing to Dateline and a repeat of Medium. [NY Post] Asian carp are reviled by fishermen in the North, but in the South, they're being rebranded as Kentucky tune: "a ... More >>

The Four Seasons Finds a Replacement for Fabio Trabocchi. Two of Them.

Four Seasons. Two chefs.​Three months after the hasty departure of Fabio Trabocchi, the Four Seasons has found a new chef. Two of them, actually.

Ed Brown's Eighty-One Is Eighty-Sixed

Zagat.comEighty-One.​File under Big Ambitions, Bad Timing: The Post's Steve Cuozzo reports that Ed Brown's Eighty-One will close after dinner on April 4. The quietly opulent 110-seat restaurant opened on the ground floor of the Excelsior Hotel in February 2008, several months before the financ ... More >>

Josh Ozersky on His Upcoming Wedding Feast, the Demise of the Feedbag and (Food) World Domination

Jason Perlow/Hamburger AmericaJosh Ozersky and friend.​ Last Friday morning on the windswept tundra that was Soho, one half expected to encounter a pack of wolves trundling down Spring Street. Instead, a larger, equally hungry apparition materialized in the mercifully insulated confines of Bal ... More >>

Under Review: Sietsema at Ambiance; DiGregorio at SD26

This week in the Voice, Our Man Sietsema gets well fed at Ambiance in Carnasie, while Sarah DiGregorio tries to find warmth at SD26. Sam Sifton drops in on Le Relais de Venise l'Entrecote, where there is "no real menu to speak of. There is only salad and steak frites... And you know what? It's terr ... More >>

The Early Word on Ed's Chowder House: Skip It

Chowder sampler, clockwise from top New England clam, Manhattan blue crab, and sweet corn ​ Ed's Chowder House smells right--like lemon and that flinty, mineral aroma of good shellfish. But that's where the good news ends. It's not that the food is terrible--although the slaw does deserve that ... More >>

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