Flatiron District

A New Asian-Burger Truck from Rhong-Tiam

Andy Yang's Thai mini-chain, Rhong Tiam, is launching three new food trucks this spring. Each truck will have its own theme and the "Supreme Burger Truck," as the first one has unfortunately been called, will launch tomorrow with a focus on Asian-inspired hamburgers.

Traditional Korean Skewers and Stews in the Flatiron District

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Steven Soderbergh and Scott Z. Burn on Side Effects, Their Latest Collaboration

Maysville, Your New Kentucky Home

Kyle Knall offers up Southern spirit and spirits

9 People Were Non-Fatally Shot While You Were Stumbling Home On New Year's

As we know, New Year's Eve brings out the worst in people. An hyped-up party atmosphere mixed with thousands of people mixed with alcohol will produce that blowback; on my walk from the Flatiron District to the East Village at around 2am, I witnessed two huge fights, five ambulances and a streaker p ... More >>

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Say Hello To Pig and Khao, Prospect

The restaurant veterans behind Fatty Crew Hospitality Group have partnered with Bravo's Top Chef contestant Leah Cohen to open Pig and Khao. It's Southeast Asian cuisine and the shared plates menu will pay homage to traditional Southeast Asian fare, such as pork and rice, infused with Thai and Filip ... More >>

Say Goodbye To Plum Pizzeria, Mandy's Health Café and Juice Bar

Plum Pizzeria has shuttered on Second Avenue. No notice on their accounts. They opened in 2010 and an applicant by Alder Restaurant LLC was on the August docket to take over the space. [EV Grieve] Pomodora, the pizzeria on Second Avenue between 10th Street and 11th Street might be closed. Last mon ... More >>

Tunnel Burglar Hit With Whopping 28-Year Prison Sentence -- And He Didn't Even Kill Anyone

*UPDATE* We've compiled a list of what McAleese stole that would warrant such a lengthy prison sentence. Ribs and Saki are involved.When 43-year-old Shawn McAleese was tunneling his way into Manhattan businesses to steal stuff earlier this year, he probably didn't think he could potentially face mor ... More >>

Say Goodbye To Gravy, Fu Sushi

Gravy in the Flatiron district has shut down. It specialized in Southern-style comfort food and announced the closing via Facebook. [Mad Park News] Fu Sushi closed on Avenue B in August. The space is currently up for rent at $4,375 for 700 square feet. [EV Grieve] Todd English's The Libertine h ... More >>

Say Hello To GRK, Guy's American Kitchen and Bar

GRK is a new Greek restaurant that opened in the Financial District on September 10. The menu showcases two Greek classics: yeero and yogurt. The yeero is a wrap filled with slowly rotated, spit-roasted meat. It's is layered onto a warm pita and dressed with different interpretations of tzatziki, th ... More >>

Season Specials: Half-Price Wine At LuLu & Me, Lunch Boxes From Raymi

A roundup on some restaurant deals and specials across the city: LuLu & Me is featuring half-price bottles of wine all night every Saturday in September. Its wine list includes both familiar grapes and lesser-known varietals. Standout bottles include Picpoul, a white wine made in France that's onl ... More >>

Ootoya: Yo, Tokyo!

A Japanese mega-chain invades our fair city

Mike Bloomberg: No Free Vibrators For You! (Without A Permit, Anyway)

Unlike other media outlets, we'll spare you the endless orgasm puns and just come right out and say it: the Trojan condom company held a free vibrator giveaway throughout the city yesterday -- that is, until Mayor Mike Bloomberg came and pissed on the parade.The condom conglomerate planned to giveaw ... More >>

This Week's Specials: Best Of Hell's Kitchen, Free Iced Booze

What we've been up to this week at Fork in the Road: Robert Sietsema lists out his ten favorite restaurants in Hell's Kitchen. We list out a hot summer deal about free iced booze at Bottlerocket in the Flatiron district. One of the menu items: "Bootlegger Vodka Sno-cones with Fruit Syrups." Seve ... More >>

Free Iced Booze Every Thursday: Vodka and Bourbon Snow Cones

[See More Events: Spice Market Celebrating National Watermelon | City Grit Bringing Portland to NYC] Summer is the season for ice and booze. But when those things are mixed together and slapped on with the word "free," it's a deal we can't resist. The eclectic and environmentally-friendly Bottler ... More >>

Saba Pressed Sushi at Ootoya, Dish #85

Welcome to 100 Dishes to Eat Now, the tasty countdown leading up to our "Best of 2012" issue. Tune in each day (weekends too!) for a new dish from the Fork in the Road team. [See More 100 Dishes: Lamb Barbacoa Taco at Empellón Taqueria, Dish #86 | Build Your Own Burger at Kent Ale House, Dish #88]

Recipe: Oaxacan-Style Tamales from Almond

Today we bring to you a recipe from Almond, an American bistro in the Flatiron district. One of the restaurant's bussers named Antony actually acquired the recipe from his grandmother who comes from Tulcingo del Valle, Puebla. She made these tamales at her neighborhood and church gatherings. The t ... More >>

Zero Otto Nove: Rabbit, Run!

A Salerno-style spot does both Belmont and the Flatiron district

Zero Otto Nove's Bronx Vs. Manhattan Smackdown

In the Bronx, ZON's margherita is one of the city's most perfect evocations of that sainted Neapolitan pie. Today, Counter Culture compares two renditions of Roberto Paciullo's (of Roberto Restaurant fame) Zero Otto Nove: one on Arthur Avenue in the Bronx, the other in the Flatiron District in Man ... More >>

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North End Grill: Danny Meyer Shall Rule Us All

The restaurant king further annexes Battery Park City

Robert Sietsema at Tacos Morelos; Lauren Shockey at North End Grill

​​See what the city's restaurant critics have been up to this week: In this week's Voice, Robert Sietsema checks out the brick-and-mortar location of Tacos Morelos: "Taco Morelos--where even the tortillas are handmade--is something of a masa museum." As she tests out the fare at North End Gri ... More >>

Say Hello to The Sweetery, Lulu & Me

Here are some of the latest newcomers to New York City's cutthroat dining scene. If you hear of any new openings or closings, let us know. The Sweetery (433 West 34th Street) can now satisfy your cookie, cake, and sugary baked-good fix. The group behind the Eatery runs the new pastry shop. [Zagat B ... More >>

Where Was I Eating? Markt

And so we reach the end of this week's game. The second clue must have been a big helper. "It's Leopold III and that picture totally hangs over the bar at Markt!" one commenter wrote. He is, indeed, correct! I was at that Belgian restaurant in the Flatiron District. The clue was in the picture, for ... More >>

Beecher's Handmade Cheese: Some Cheddar in Your Martini?

The curd-ish people get a homeland in the Flatiron district

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What Does a Grilled Cheese Martini Taste Like?

Lauren Shockey​Once upon a time, the martini was simply a gin and vermouth cocktail. Then came such bastardizations as the green apple martini and the coffee martini. You'd think that would have been the apogee of alcoholic disasters, but then came along the grilled cheese martini.

Open and Closed: Say Hello to The Tippler, Goodbye to La Fonda Boricua

Restaurants and bars, they come and they go. Here are a few making their debuts and bowing out this week. If you hear of any new openings or closings, let us know. Coco, a Japanese restaurant in Williamsburg, has shuttered. [Eater] The Burger Heaven location on Madison between 54th and 55th Street ... More >>

Movers & Shakers: More Foreign Transplants and One New York Export

photo by Liz BarclayGoing to Miami.​It's that time of year again, when the food media begin to obsess and chitter over the restaurants set to open in the fall. Among the forthcoming newcomers is more than a handful of foreign transplants, restaurants from other countries that hope to translate ... More >>

Hackathon Brings Together Techies To Help The City

Esther Zuckerman​When we walked into General Assembly's office in the Flatiron District around 3 p.m. Sunday, most people in the room were hunched over their laptop screens, most of which were Macs. It was nearing the end of the "Reinvent NYC.gov" hackathon, an event sponsored by the city in w ... More >>

Bee Swarms Invade Manhattan, Again

Bees in Little Italy in May​It's been a season of bees, so to speak, with swarms making news in Little Italy and across our fevered nation. And now the otherwise humdrum Flatiron District, DNA Info reports, has been hit with not one but two giant swarms of honeybees -- one at the Perfume Wareh ... More >>

Is Eataly Eating Little Italy?

Robert Sietsema​Between its ever-shrinking footprint and the boutique owners whose delicate sensibilities are offended between the San Gennaro Festival, Little Italy has taken its fair share of knocks in recent years. And to add insult to injury, the neighborhood's merchants are saying that Ea ... More >>

NYC Elevator Plummets, Validating Fears

Tower of Terror​A New York City elevator dropped three stories on Wednesday morning in a Flatiron District building, thereby justifying the fears of generations who have been told that a fast-moving, close-quartered metal box on wires is somehow totally safe. The malfunction occurred around 7 ... More >>

Zio Ristorante to Bring More Mediterranean to Flatiron Next Week

Max and partners (Darren Berman and Roberto Manfe).​The Flatiron district is getting more Mediterranean in the form of Zio Ristorante (17 West 19th Street), opening late next week.

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Kimchi Taco Truck's Tofu Edamame Falafel Tacos Have Some Impressive Balls

Rebecca Marx​ When we wrote Our 10 Best Vegetarian Street Foods round-up last week, we hadn't yet been able to make it to the Kimchi Taco Truck. But now that we have, we'd like to make its tofu edamame falafel tacos an honorary member of the canon.

Pret A Manger Plans Sandwich Domination of New York

​Good news for sandwich-in-a-box lovers and other office workers: British chain Pret A Manger is hoping to triple its presence in New York City over the next two years.

What's The Worst Job You Ever Had?

​I'll tell you mine. In one of the summers of my misspent youth, I somehow nabbed a part-time job delivering rubber stamps! This was akin to nabbing crabs or a very bad headache.

Junoon--the Fancy and the Beige

Decent cooking but little spirit at an upscale Flatiron Indian restaurant

This Week in the Voice: Kanye, Kanye, Kanye! And Cee Lo, Too, and the Biebs...

​Kanye West dominates the 38th Annual Pazz Jop Critics' Poll as albums winner, with 3250 points and 266 mentions for My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, while crowd favorite Cee Lo Green snags singles winner with 187 mentions for "Fuck You." But there's tons more in this week's musical retros ... More >>

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Top Shots: Our 10 Best Cocktails of 2010

One cocktail says to another: "You're going down!"​ Each week in The Daily Shot, we have ourselves a drink that we think you should try, too. Some of these bibulous creations leave our head swimming with delight, while others lead to little more than imbiber's remorse. We've sampled the best t ... More >>

Exploring the Montreal-New York Food Connection

A trip up over the border to the great French north

Live: Club-Hopping From Plunge To Hiro Ballroom To (Briefly) Santos' Party House, At The Behest Of Daily Candy, Ed Banger, And Ninja Tune

​DJ Kentaro and his admirers. Pics by Puja, more below.​The best thing about living in this city is that there's always something to do. If anything, we're constantly torn between options: Should we go to the dance party, the concert, the cocktail hour, or the laid-back DJ night? It's a ... More >>

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