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March 16, 2012
This Week's Specials: Late-Night Eats, Taco Trials
See what we've been up to at Fork in the Road this week: Where should you go for drunk food on St. Patrick's Day? We've got the answer: our 10 best late-night eats. We're also giving you 5 other ways to celebrate St. Patrick's Day, including snacking on Burger King's free fries and green ketchup.
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March 15, 2012
Back Forty West Chef Peter Hoffman on the Foods He Won't Serve: Interview Part 2
Yesterday we spoke with Peter Hoffman, the chef/owner of Back Forty and its new spinoff, Back Forty West, and he told us all about the best days to visit the Greenmarket and how he got into the locavore movement. Today he looks back on his long career in New York City and reveals his all-time favori ... More >>
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March 14, 2012
Chef Peter Hoffman Shares His Thoughts on Recreating Back Forty in Soho and the Locavore Movement
Peter Hoffman has been a fixture in the downtown New York restaurant scene for years. He opened Savoy in Soho back before the neighborhood was a glorified shopping mall, and championed a farm-friendly culinary aesthetic before the term "locavore" was ever coined. He shuttered Savoy last year, but ju ... More >>
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March 9, 2012
Our 10 Best East Village Restaurants, 2012 Edition
These chicken chile guajillo enchiladas at Downtown Bakery are every bit as good -- and spicy -- as they look. The East Village may be the city's most eclectic and rewarding dining destination, though this aspect of the neighborhood is sometimes eclipsed by its bars and cocktail lounges. You can d ... More >>
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February 28, 2012
Savoy Becomes Back Forty West; Benares Brings Indian to the Theater District
Here are the latest newcomers to New York City's cutthroat dining scene. If you hear of any new openings or closings, let us know. Chef Peter Hoffman's former Savoy space, said the be one of the original farm-to-table restaurants, will re-open as Back Forty West this week. The SoHo sister restau ... More >>
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September 30, 2011
New York City's 17 Greatest Chefs
The re-Africanized fried chicken at Marcus Samuelsson's Red Rooster This highly idiosyncratic list is based entirely on my own dining predilections, and only includes chefs whose work I'm reasonably familiar with. Certain figures have been excluded from consideration -- Thomas Keller, for example ... More >>
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September 14, 2011
The Vendys to Honor Food Trucks from Jersey
Snooki would approve.New York's Vendy Awards is adding a new category this year: New Jersey food trucks. Three competitors from the Garden State have been entered, including Taco Truck and the vegan Cinnamon Snail, from Hoboken; and Jersey City's Two Pitas in a Pod.
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June 15, 2011
Soho's Going Kosher, and Looking Beyond Savoy
Dig it, West Broadway.As yet further evidence that Jewish food is edging its way into the limelight, Soho is on track to get 3,000 square feet of kosher dining.
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June 13, 2011
What's Happening This Week: Crab Boil, Colorado Pop-Up and Spanish Wines
As you may know, our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the coolest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! Crab Boil Back Forty Tuesday, June 14th, 7 p.m. Peter Hoffman's East Village spot Back Forty will kick off summer by throwing its first Crab Boil of the season. For ... More >>
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May 25, 2011
Back Forty's Annual Chesapeake Crab Boils Kick Off on June 14
'Tis the season.Savoy may have recently thrown its last big hurrah, but Peter Hoffman is gearing up to throw Back Forty's annual all-summer-long Tuesday night Chesapeake Crab Boils.
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May 9, 2011
Elegy for Peter Hoffman's Savoy, 8:00 Monday Evening
As the sun set, the crowd spilled out into the magnificent Spring weather. Peter Hoffman's Savoy, a Soho fixture for two decades, founded at a time when Crosby Street was dark and forbidding at night, lays claim to being New York's Chez Panisse, a place that pioneered locavorism and fundame ... More >>
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April 29, 2011
Our 10 Best NYC Restaurants With Secret Gardens
Lauren ShockeyWho would have known this was hidden in the back of an East Village diner? Eating in the great outdoors. Is there a greater pleasure in life? Quite frankly, no. And now that the weather has warmed, it's finally time for al fresco dining. New York surprisingly has many option ... More >>
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April 20, 2011
Savoy, Say It Ain't So: Locavore Pioneer to Close After 20 Years
Joi/flickrPeter HoffmanPeter Hoffman has just sent word that he plans to close Savoy, his trailblazing market-driven restaurant in Soho, on June 18 after more than two decades in business. He says he'll open a new restaurant in the same space later this year.
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March 17, 2011
For One Night, Savoy Will Become a Shad Shack
Alosa sapidissima. Pretty, isn't it?A few things you probably didn't know about shad, but which Wikipedia assures us are true: - also known as river herrings, they belong to the family Clupeidae - they play an unusual role in Virginia politics: every April, a Shad Planking (wherein the fish ... More >>
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November 11, 2010
Next Week Is Grains Week
bernat/FlickrWhile the idea of local fruits and vegetables is now firmly entrenched in the collective conscience, the concept of local grains is still relatively novel -- it's easy enough to picture an upstate apple orchard, but less so to imagine a wheat field that isn't in Iowa or Kansas.
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July 22, 2010
Andrew Pressler 'Out' at Fatty 'Cue; Christopher Lee 'In' at Las Chicas Locas
Scott Conant of Scarpetta has written an open letter to the city of Toronto introducing himself and inviting the city to his restaurant in Miami. [Huffington Post via Eater] Michael Psilakis's is closing down Gus & Gabriel Gastropub on the Upper West Side, but is planning to reopen it in a n ... More >>
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May 20, 2010
This Week's Installment of Ask the Critics: Mom's in Town
The laid-back vibe early in the evening, and charming West Village location of Malatesta, may be perfect for mom. One of my favorite parts of my job is helping friends and acquaintances with restaurant recommendations, and I work on several per week, time permitting. If I were an idiot savan ... More >>
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January 22, 2010
French It Up This Weekend: Champagne and Cassoulet to Warm and Uplift You
Get chaud with cassoulet.Savoy will host its second Annual Cassoulet Feast this Saturday. Chefs from six different restaurants -- Ryan Tate and Peter Hoffman of Savoy, Marc Meyer of Cookshop, Galen Zamarra of Mas (Farmhouse), Michael Anthony of Gramercy Tavern, Cyril Renaud of Bar Breton, and ... More >>
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October 21, 2009
A Good Month for New York Food History
In the last three weeks or so, the publishing world has bestowed upon us no less than three books dedicated exclusively or in large part to the cultural history of food and dining in New York. William Grimes's Appetite City: A Culinary History of New York, David Sax's Save the Deli, and Andre ... More >>
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July 23, 2009
Peter Hoffman Considers the Crab
IntangibleArts/flickr Last week, a slew of articles shed light on the issue of whether or not crustaceans can feel pain. In the Atlantic, Trevor Corson reported on the debates inspired by a UK study suggesting that crabs may in fact not enjoy being boiled alive, while the Huffington Post offere ... More >>
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June 10, 2009
Under Review--Sietsema At Harbour; DiGregorio At Andy's Seafood & Grill
This week in the Voice, Our Man Sietsema swims over to Harbour, although he isn't sure enough of his fellow New Yorkers will follow suit, while Sarah DiGregorio tries to stomach stinky tofu at Andy's Seafood & Grill. Jay Cheshes is less lukewarm about Harbour, with its chef Joe Isidori, who "cooks ... More >>
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June 8, 2009
What's Happening This Week--Big Apple BBQ Block Party & the NYC Food Film Fest
As many of you know, our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the coolest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! Big Apple Barbecue Block Party Madison Square Park June 13 & 14 The Seventh Annual Snapple Big Apple Barbecue Block Party returns to Madison Square Park this we ... More >>
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November 29, 2007
Now Hiring: Rich Families, Stadium Opportunists, Fox
As many of you know, our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the coolest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! Big Apple Barbecue Block Party Madison Square Park June 13 & 14 The Seventh Annual Snapple Big Apple Barbecue Block Party returns to Madison Square Park this we ... More >>
Dining
November 27, 2007
Bull Market: A Restaurant Generated by Concept
Not what Alice Waters meant by 'market-driven'
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March 25, 2003
Out at Home
Life in the Burning-Bush Leagues
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September 5, 2000
Mixed-and-Matched Emotions
Life in the Burning-Bush Leagues

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