Montauk

Nativism, Fedoras, and the 'Hipster' Takeover of Montauk

A few weeks back, New York Times writer Jim Rutenberg wrote a piece on the newest victim of the constantly invading bohemian culture that sucks up dilapidation and spits out haute couture. Ugh, yes, it was another "This is where the hipsters are going this week" piece that we all love to hate b ... More >>

10 Best Hell's Kitchen NYC Restaurants

These wonderful fried pork-belly tidbits are served with an arepa and lime wedges at Farmers Rotisserie -- for less than $5. [See More 10 Bests: Doughnuts | Gelato] No New York neighborhood offers a denser collection of restaurants, aimed at theater-goers, tourists, local neighborhood types, Time ... More >>

Bloated Pig/Rat-Monster Washes Up On Shore Of East River

If anyone's missing a gigantic, bloated pig/rat-monster, it's been found on the bank of the East River -- and it's disgusting.The above photo -- and others you can see after the jump -- were taken under the esplanade along the East River by a woman named Denise Ginley.It's unclear what this thing ac ... More >>

A Father's Day Mix Of Songs With Mixed Feelings About Fathers

Every May, there's no shortage of mawkishly sentimental songs to play on Mother's Day, but a month later, there are comparatively few Father's Day equivalents. Sure, there are some treacly tracks like Bob Carlisle's 1997 adult-contempo hit "Butterfly Kisses," but fatherhood is more often than not in ... More >>

This Week's Specials: Breakfast Tacos and Ma Po Tofu

Robert Sietsema shares with us a list for his five favorite breakfast tacos: "Sadly, breakfast tacos are few and far between in Gotham, and you have to behave like a ferret to find them." What's the story behind Sichuan mapo tofu? The dish features bean curd, ground meat, fermented bean paste, chi ... More >>

Milk Bar Now Serving Crack Pie Beachside

The Momofuku Milk Bar team opened its newest spot in Montauk this past weekend, a sweet, makeshift shop that's up and running for the summer.

Parish Hall's 5 Best Dishes

"Duck" -- Nothing better than fat-rimmed Normandy duck breast and leg, in a kind of warm salad with greens, braised leeks, and beet puree. This week, Counter Culture scrambles in to Egg spinoff Parish Hall, where the seasonal menu -- much of it sourced upstate -- is a delight. Here are the five di ... More >>

Despite Snow Storm, Union Square Greenmarket Carries On

​There were eggs to be had aplenty -- but you had to fish them out of the snow drifts. In spite of the year's first major snowfall, the Greenmarket went on as planned today at Union Square. The tarmac was paved with slush, and the fervent locavores who make up the market's customers in weat ... More >>

Patrick Connolly 'Out' at Bobo; Jeffrey Tascarella 'In' at NoMad

​Patrick Connolly has left Bobo after three years with the restaurant -- reportedly, an amicable departure. A replacement for both Bobo and Carlos Suarez's forthcoming restaurant in the old Village Paper space has yet to be named. [Eater] Jeffrey Tascarella, a proprietor of Tenpenny along wit ... More >>

The Week in Food Blogs: Shitshows, Marshmallows and Dumb Restaurant Laws

katerha/flickrWhat a marshmallow.​ This week in food blogs... Eater celebrated its legendary Shitshow Week and even offered tips on how to start your own. Grub Street unofficially investigated secret cameras inside Starbucks bathrooms. Midtown Lunch penned an ode to Cer Te's new Montauk Han ... More >>

Scaffolding Totally Ruins Bride's Dream Wedding

​You know what they say about weddings -- something is bound to go wrong. Ideally it's not because you eat a peanut and die from anaphylactic shock, or because it turns out that your groom had an affair with your mother, though anyone with allergies and/or a certain kind of groom/mother should ... 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 >>

Would You Pay $250 For A Free Concert By A To-Be-Confirmed Band?

If you're not doing anything else with it... ​Back in the bubbly, heady days of 2007 the idea of rock-and-roll class wars was stoked by Social@Ross, a $15,000, five-concert series in the Hamptons that had big names like Billy Joel and Prince and that got deeply discounted before not being aske ... More >>

It's Fathers' Day; Obama and Boehner Golf Together; Four Die in Montauk-Bound Cessna

via AP​Today is Father's Day! Call your Dad and grill something. Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner had a friendly lil' round of golf yesterday with Joe Biden and Ohio Governor John Kasich, and it fixed America. [The Atlantic Wire / Politico] A Manhattan family died yesterday in a ... More >>

Imperial No. Nine--Check In to the Hotel Crapshoot

Sam Talbot launches a seafood spot at the Mondrian Soho

With Fish, R.J. Cutler Takes Us on a Pleasure Boat Ride

Jon Shook, son of a gun.​If you're looking for a way to pass 20 minutes in an agreeable fashion, then consider clicking on over to Fish, R.J. Cutler's short documentary about Jon Shook, one of the chef-owners of Los Angeles' Animal and Son of a Gun restaurants. Yes, Los Angeles. There's no New ... More >>

Imperial No. Nine's Sam Talbot Talks About Tuna, Television, and Being a Top Chef

Photo courtesy Sam TalbotGo fish, Sam Talbot.​ Sam Talbot might be best known as the hunky chef who appeared on Top Chef, but now he's making a splash with his new, seafood-focused restaurant Imperial No. Nine, located in the Mondrian Hotel in Soho. We called him up to learn more about what s ... More >>

Ditch Plains Travels North to the Upper West Side

Ditch Plains​If the continuing success of Luke's Lobster is any indication, inhabitants of the city's upper climes love consuming crustaceans in hot dog buns. And beginning today, they'll have even greater opportunity to do so.

Announcing "Meet Me in Montauk," an All-Ages Daytrip with K Recs' Calvin Johnson and Astronautalis

Judith BaumannPicture this with long pants and a foggy cliffside view. Montauk's mostly known to be a resort town with the "charm of the Hamptons without the pretensions," as Voice gadfly Michael Musto put it last August. Sounds about right for the destination of a show roadtrip, made all the more h ... More >>

Ariel Panero Memorial Set For Sunday

​People are saying their own kind of goodbyes in the comments section here, but if you'd like to do it in real life, the memorial service for Ariel Panero will be held this Sunday, December 12, at the Montauk Club in Park Slope, Brooklyn (25 Eighth Avenue) at 1 p.m. "Please come out and show y ... More >>

Will Hurricane Earl "Smoosh" with Jersey Shore?

Hurricane "Snooks."​Labor Day weekend isn't looking to be the last-hurray-of-summer-sunshine affair its supposed to be, with Hurricane Earl ready to very literally rain on the plans of anyone about to have one last blowout before calling the summer off. And it looks like the Jersey Shore -- wh ... More >>

The LIRR's "Average People" Problems Will Not Bother Hamptons-Goers

​While the electrical fire at an LIRR switching station on Monday has continued to mean delays for commuters, those heading out to the Hamptons will apparently be blissfully impervious to such pedestrian difficulties. The Cannonball trains to Montauk (with stops in the Hamptons) are running as ... More >>

Will Anyone Buy "Woody Hoodie" Condoms?

Swing-dancing, Fringe-watching, Montauk-visiting—almost relaxing

Will Anyone Buy "Woody Hoodie" Condoms?

​CLICK HERE for my column in which I pose that trenchant question, proving once again that I know people in low places. Also in the column: *What was Jane Fonda drinking at that premiere last week? *Where does Sutton Foster's new dominatrix character draw the line? *Who put the tauk back i ... More >>

Jamie Oliver Wins Emmy for Food Revolution; General Tso Still Rules Chinese Food Orders

​A recent study reveals that most people -- 79 percent, in fact -- would dine at a restaurant that was "certified green" over one that wasn't. [Nation's Restaurant News] Nestlé, the maker of Nespresso espresso pods, is suing its rivals, claiming they are making cheaper versions of the Nespre ... More >>

NYC's Best BBQ; Is Aged Beef Overrated?

This week in food blogs... Feast listed its highest scoring barbecue joints, including Georgia's Eastside BBQ, Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, and Hill Country. Grub Street continued to follow Mario Batali and Joe Bastianich's legal woes, discovering that employees from another five restaurants now want to su ... More >>

Your Summer Live-Jazz Cheat Sheet

Options abound for fans of all inclinations and bank accounts

Sex and The City 2 Spoiler: Carrie's Jihad on Islam?

​For years, HBO's Sex and the City made New York City an excitable frontier of moneyed men, inexplicably well-off women (despite shitty writing jobs that realistically pay nothing), and a world where everyone is someone else's plus-one. And that frontier was then seized upon by basically every ... More >>

Poor Baby Whale Stuck in East Hampton

A young whale may find itself in trouble if it ventures to East Hampton alone.​Warning: This is a sad one. Not only do we hate when an adorable animal is in trouble, this particular adorable animal, a humpback whale calf, is stuck in possibly the worst place for whales -- Main Beach at East Ha ... More >>

Weekend Special: Escape from Thanksgiving

​A few will admire me, but more will detest my behavior, either because they actually love the holiday, or are too chickenshit to do what I did. This year, after decades of suffering dry-breasted turkeys, inane "catch-up" conversations with people I barely know, and hours of waiting for total ... More >>

I, Locavore: A First Look at Lucy's Whey in the Chelsea Market

​In line with locavoric principles, the cheese-eating public has shown a greater interest in cheeses produced in our part of the country, which means New York and New England. Of course, this is partly due to the efforts of Anne Saxelby at Saxelby Cheese, but ideas like this are infectious and ... More >>

Few Save Surfers, David Blaine Brave Beaches During Hurricane Bill

​The closing of most local beaches on account of Hurricane Bill was mostly respected, but there are always a few brave/foolhardy souls who wish to trifle with the enraged god of the sea. At the open Orchard Beach in The Bronx this weekend, the Times found a few visitors. None of them were repo ... More >>

Animal Has Popped Up in Montauk

At Montauk's Sole East, the pop-up restaurant from Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo of L.A.'s Animal is up and running. Grub Street reports that the meat-happy menu will be available for the rest of the week, but reservations are going fast.

Oh, Those Animals! Jon Shook Looks Forward to Surfing (and Cooking) in Montauk

According to Jon Shook, the motivation for him and Vinny Dotolo, his co-chef at L.A.'s Animal, to do their upcoming pop-up restaurant at Montauk's Sole East was pretty simple. "Both Vinny and me are from Florida, and we grew up surfing, skateboarding, and hanging out on the beach," Shook says. "Even ... More >>

Under the Toque: A Spanish Chef in the House at Mercat; Lady Chefs Gone Wild

Ryan Skeen--formerly of Resto, the General Greene, and Irving Mill--has officially been named the new executive chef at Allen & Delancey on the LES. Both chef Kyle Bailey and pastry chef Tiffany MacIsaac have left the restaurant. A new pastry chef has yet to be named. [NY Times] Spanish chef Paco G ... More >>

Hello New York! Whale Songs Heard for First Time in NY Waters

DANGEROUS LIAISONS

A game of seduction and style

Get Yer Monster Tees, CobCabs That Freak you Out, and the Magic Kingdom Could Come to Your Subway Station...

What Could You Do With a Parking Spot, Bond References in Sean Connery Renovations Lawsuit, and the Montauk Monster...

Perez Hilton: "I Like Food, Not Drugs!"

Yet another Rhode trip. Then it's back to Manhattan for cock tales.

Summer Shorts

Fading towns but rising talent in Rebecca Curtis's debut story collection

Diggin' Ditch

Greenwich Village seafood shack offers clam strip tease

Garden State

Eating alfresco never tasted so good

Out of Here

Three getaways for New Yorkers in need of a little R&R

Tales of the Tummy, or Bare Naked Ladies

Love Letters Extra

Worth the Splurge

Top 100 Italian Restaurants

NY Mirror

Bread Amid the Circuses

The Royal We