Meatpacking District

Kevin's Reopens in Red Hook After Sandy, and Clarkson Opens Near Hudson Square

Red Hook seafood restaurant Kevin's reopened on February 22 after receiving funds from Restore Red Hook and Lucky Ant, a crowdfunding website, Serious Eats reported. Chef Kevin Moore and his team repaired floors, sheetrock, and wainscoting that was ruined from Hurricane Sandy flooding. Red Hook Marb ... More >>

Leather Bar Rawhide Will Close in Chelsea; 5 Ninth Shutters in Meatpacking District

Saigon Grill brought Vietnamese food to the Upper West Side, but after two closures due to health-code violations, its doors have shut for good, West Side Rag learned. A note dated February 26 hung in a window and said, "Restaurant official closed. We're sorry for inconvenience with you." 620 Amster ... More >>

Nuit Blanche Wednesdays: Burlesque in The Meat Packing District

As I noted in this week's column, neo-burlesque has survived the Christina Aguilera movie and flourished even more than in the past. It's a regular attraction at the Meat Packing District in the form of Nuit Blanches Wednesday dinner shows, presented by Dances of Vice, at the intimate and sexy Beau ... More >>

Robert Sietsema At Masak; Tejal Rao At Governor

Robert Sietsema says that Singaporean joint Masak is Asian rustic: "But instead of making diners dodge crab-shell fragments like at Fatty Crab, Masak delivers the primmer and more approachable chili crab dip." Tejal Rao heads out to DUMBO and eats at Governor, where she notes that the chef is both ... More >>

Oh Yes! Trojan To Give Away Free Vibrators!

Talk about good vibrations... Trojan Company, best known for its condoms, is going to give away 10,000 free vibrators from two hot dog carts Wednesday and Thursday. One of the "Pleasure Carts" is going to be parked in the Meatpacking District, on 14th Street and Tenth Avenue -- while the other wi ... More >>

Announcing Sound Of The City's March Madness: A Monthlong Tournament To Crown The Quintessential New York Musician

Today is the first of March, a month that brings lions, lambs, ominous midpoints, yummy Italian pastries, and people grossly stereotyping the Irish by drinking cheap beer until they get shitty drunk. It also is the month for March Madness, the 6468-entrant (thanks Turner and CBS) tournament of colle ... More >>

The Vinatta Project's Michael "Kiwi" Camplin on His Ideal Dinner Party: Interview Part 2

Photo courtesy Michael CamplinMichael Camplin needs some sleep​Yesterday we spoke with Michael "Kiwi" Camplin, chef at the new Meatpacking District restaurant the Vinatta Project, about his upbringing in New Zealand and the intricacies of creating a small plates menu. Today we get a bit more p ... More >>

Got Bucks? They Got Bubbly. New Year's Eve Restaurants If You're Feeling Fancy.

The vodka-caviar room at the Russian Tea Room, perhaps?​ When the ball drops this New Year's Eve where will you be? Will you (A) be in Times Square crossing your legs and wishing you didn't finish the rum and coke you hastily poured into your Nalgene bottle on your way out the door? (B) At an ... More >>

Malaysian Noodle Festival Ongoing in the Meatpacking District

​Eight restaurants participated under red paper lanterns. The promotional website malaysiakitchennyc.com staged a noodle-themed event this afternoon on the north end of the Meatpacking District, in the square formed by the confluence of Ninth Avenue, Greenwich Street, and West 14th Street.

Straights Get An Eyeful At New Gay Bash

​At the Little West 12th Street club Ajna last night, master promoters Tony Fornabaio and Brandon L. Voss launched a weekly gay party, the boys mixing in the high-ceilinged casbah-like environs like good little hummus-sexuals. But the adjacent restaurant area was filled with straight people c ... More >>

Salinas: Some Spain, Some Pain

The ups and downs of a new Chelsea spot

Boobs Will Be Removed from the Meatpacking District

A few of the offending boobs.​In the Meatpacking District, a place rife with boobs, the most innocent of those boobs will, come fall, no longer be available to ogle. Of course, more likely, drunk people were not ogling them but instead catching their stilettos in cobblestones and falling on th ... More >>

New York City to Get Vibrator Trucks

​Food trucks are soooo passé. You can barely walk down the street without hitting one with your fancy new handbag! Since we as a city do not sit and stagnate (unless it's today) but instead ebb and flow like the sewage-filled tides, there is a new entry in the truck camp. There are vibrator t ... More >>

How to Eat a Hopper, and Other Curious Starches From Sri Lanka

​Hoppers come four to an order and -- surprise! -- there's a runny egg inside one of them. This week, Counter Culture traipses in to Banana Leaf, a newish Sri Lankan restaurant in the part of Manhattan that used to be known as the Fur District (think of how much better that sounds than the M ... More >>

Dish No. 96: Pizza Di Patate at Malaparte

​ Welcome to the 2011 Edition of 100 Dishes to Eat Now, Fork in the Road's handy list of some of the dishes we've lately stumbled on that we're fond of -- old standbys and new finds alike. Over the ensuing weeks, we'll be counting these down leading up to our Best of 2011 Issue -- and see how ... More >>

Cocktail Consultant Teaches 'How to Behave in a Bar' Class; Dan Aykroyd Has 21,000 Bottles of Crystal Head Vodka Stolen

​Bars are serving up flowers in cocktails around the city, including elderflower and violet in a Howard Hughes at The Lion, lavender in a No. 6 at Imperial No. 9, and hibiscus in the Hibiscus Punch at Koi. [NY Post] At Provocateur, a nightclub in the Meatpacking district, a new menu of season ... More >>

Michael Bolton And The Lonely Island Go To The Movies

The Lonely Island's Turtleneck & Chain comes out tomorrow, and the weekend's Saturday Night Live previewed its arrival with "Jack Sparrow," in which Michael Bolton drops by the studio and provides a hook more inspired by his Netflix queue than by nights out in New York City's Meatpacking District. ... More >>

Out With the Old and In With the New: Nicolas Cantrel Dishes on Why Bagatelle Shuttered and is Now Beaumarchais

Photo courtesy Nicolas Cantrel ​For some people, Sunday afternoon in the Meatpacking district means one thing: a raucously boozy brunch (complete with dancing on the banquettes) at Bagatelle (if you've never been, here's a recap). So it might come as a surprise that the restaurant quietly shu ... More >>

Spice Market Replicates Self in London

Spice Market​ Seven years after opening its doors in the Meatpacking District, Spice Market is expanding to London. Jean-Georges Vongerichten will export his Southeast Asian restaurant to the city's W Hotel on February 14, with Vong veteran Tim Tolley as the chef de cuisine. If the above image ... More >>

Here Are 10 of New York City's Creepiest (Unhaunted) Places

Creepy abandoned smallpox hospital. ​We're feeling kinda Halloweeny, and, luckily, New York has a whole host of reputedly haunted locales, including the Algonquin (now, creepily, a Marriott), the Dakota, the Empire State Building, and Washington Square Park. But it struck us that each of those ... More >>

The New York Post Really Wants You to Party In Midtown. Bad.

Lavo: If this looks good to you, please go there.​The new Manhattan hotspot, according to the New York Post, is Midtown, and specifically Lavo, a 500-person nightclub on 58th Street where Geoge Clooney's onetime girlfriend works (and she could work anywhere -- right? Right?), as well as Covet ... More >>

Live: Maluca and AraabMusik Headline Our Own Personal Fashion's Night Out

AraabMuzik, dropping jaws​During Friday's Fashion's Night Out spectacular, we were faced with a dilemma: Should we head to SoHo to elbow our way through boutiques for a free cupcake, attempt to walk in heels around the cobblestone of the Meatpacking District, or wait in mobs of lines uptown ju ... More >>

Florent: Queen of the Meat Market Debuts at the NYC Food Film Festival Next Week

A new documentary by David Sigal called Florent: Queen of the Meat Market profiles Florent Morellet's eponymous Meatpacking District bistro and its role not only as a club-kid hangout but as a hub for the gay rights movement. It features interviews with Isaac Mizrahi, Diane von Furstenberg, and th ... More >>

New York Post Braves Velvet Ropes at Boom Boom Room, 1Oak and Other Circles of Hell

​Last weekend the New York Post made a game of underage drinking, either wasting money (and alcohol) or breaking the law. This weekend, the name of the game is clubbing, and it stars "a cougar, a guido and a nerd," like some bizarre Jersey Shore/A Night at the Roxbury/She's All That/Never Been ... More >>

Pat LaFrieda Meatpacking Space to Become an Art Gallery; Whole Foods to Stop Stocking Raw Milk

​Wtih 12 new cases of illness in the Midwest linked to unpasteurized milk, the raw milk debate is heating up, leading Whole Foods to pull raw milk from its shelves. [Wall Street Journal] Environmental activists have been attacking Nestlé over YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter for its purchases ... More >>

This Week, in the Voice: The 10 Worst Landlords in NYC

​Still trying to wrangle your landlord to get your door to stop squeaking? You ain't seen shit. As long as they didn't make Elizabeth Dwoskin's beautifully terrifying work on this year's list of New York's Worst Landlords, you might end up wanting to hug your own building's capo. And if they a ... More >>

Vento Is Closing; Dos Caminos Will Take Its Place

B.R. GuestVento in more illuminated times.​Stephen Hanson is a busy bee: not only is he in the process of opening a steroid-enhanced version of Bill's Bar & Burger, but he's also shutting the doors on Vento to make way for the fourth New York outpost of Dos Caminos. Diner's Journal brings the ... More >>

All Hail Deadly Dragon Sounds, Without Question The Best Reggae Party In The Meatpacking District

​Every first Tuesday, the Deadly Dragon Sounds collective takes over the decks at APT for what can only be described as an unusual affair for the area. The Meatpacking District venue has always provided a weekend arena for hip-hop nerds and vinyl-lovers, and it's easy to see that the DDS crew ... More >>

Worst Halloween Costume Update: Bacon Lady

​We thought the human Facebook page costume might merit inclusion in our 10 Worst Halloween Costumes 2009, but Bacon Lady deserves an honorable mention. Jeremiah's Vanishing New York caught her chatting in the Meatpacking District (!) with a hot dog man, who was of Arabic extraction, as camera ... More >>

Has 205 Club Closed?

Photo via Bowery Boogie​205, the Serge Becker (La Esquina, the Box) designed nightclub that stumbled out onto Chrystie Street sometime in the waning months of 2006, has been on vacation since the end of the summer. A sign outside promised that the club would reopen on September 10th. But Bower ... More >>

Open & Closed: Say Hello to Travertine; Goodbye to (the Other) Tea Lounge

Danae Cappelletto, a former restaurant manager in her native Australia, has opened Travertine in the space formerly occupied by Little Charlie's Clam House on Kenmare Street. The menu, by Manuel Trevino, is Mediterranean. [NY Times] Hotelier Andre Balazs has introduced The Boom Boom Room, the firs ... More >>

From Slave-Training Cages to Bacchanal Brunches

Jeremiah's Vanishing New York plays a fun game this morning, pairing photos from Bagatelle's infamous "bacchanal brunch" with descriptions of Pork Night at the Lure, the Meatpacking District leather bar that used to occupy Bagatelle's West 13th Street home. The descriptions come courtesy of a 1999 V ... More >>

At Last Night's CB2 SLA Committee Hearing...

...Josh Morgan (Houston's) and Robert Werhane (Dell'anima, L'Artusi) talked about their plans for the former Bar Q space at 308 Bleecker Street: Their "Chesapeake Bay-inspired fish house" will feature seasonal small bites and weekly specials. Morgan and Werhane have spent three years planning the co ... More >>

Billboard Too "Racy" for Former Tranny Hooker Zone

Quick now: why do you think the Van Wagner billboard company thought this Armani Exchange board was "too racy" for them to erect in New York City? It might be the implication of menage a trois. It might be the cleavage, thought that's far fetched. But most (you should pardon the expression) analyst ... More >>

New Magnolia Bakery Opens; Northward Tourist Migration Expected (Updated)

NYC Wine and Food Fest: Tickets On Sale Monday!

PROJECT COBBLEWAY

Meatpacking district gets repackaged

Now Hiring: Eli, Citarella, New Meatpacking Whatever

EfV Takes the DOH Food Handler Challenge

Our Man Sietsema: 'Let's See if it Has Any Balls'

Duckathon this Sunday

Gimme a Break

Desperately seeking asylum after a night of retreat

Shecky's vs. Girlshop

New shop from bar guide Shecky's cuts in on the young-designers scene

Overpriced Cocktail Hall of Shame, Part II

Readers respond: what bars charge way too much for their drinks?

Gouge Away

Introducing our Overpriced Cocktail Hall of Shame

Can a 'New' Old Bar Rescue the Meatpacking District?

The answer: Probably not

Mixing Up Bottle Service

The Spirit Tree adds a new level of status to drinking

NY Mirror

Close-Up on: The Meatpacking District

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