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1) iPhone shmiphone, the biggest line in the city today was down in the Financial District, where office drones waited for free food at the new Fresco To Go. Is the lunch scene that terrible in FiDi?
2) How is the Florent-to-R&L transition proceeding? Regulars are 'trickling back.'
3) Speaking of Florent, it's the inspiration for this PR Hall of Shame inductee.
4) Those with a fetish for restaurant rendering porn may want to check this out.
5) In terms of epically delayed restaurant openings, Soho's Delicatessan and MacBar takes the cake.

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1) Chickpea became Kosher Village. Kosher Village spammed (not very kosher!) a bunch of people. Kosher Village is now Tahini. Aaaaand scene.
2) Florent responds to news that his landlord will open a restaurant in the space he's vacating: "I think it's wonderful."
3) Amy Sacco's onetime Chelsea hot-spot Bette has closed, going quietly in the night.
4) Is the interior of a new East Village taco spot a Momofuku ripoff? Scandal!
5) The secret to spending over $9k at a shitty restaurant is ordering 72 shots of tequila.

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1) While Williamsburg awaits the reopening of beloved backyard BBQ spot Pies 'n' Thighs in a new space, the renderings and floorplans will have to tide you ever.
2) After you lose Top Chef, where do you turn? Easy: popcorn!
3) Holy crap, Hill Country has been open for a year. Wow, time flies.
4) Jean-Georges Vongerichten: master of sea urchin bukkake.
5) Red Hook is getting a, um, "boisterous sausage parlor." What a coincidence, that was our frat house's nickname.

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This week's top dish from Eater, Curbed's restaurant, bar, and nightlife blog...

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1) Eater kicks off a series of photo essays chronicling the last days of Florent with this look at the Meatpacking District legend's dining room at 9 a.m.
2) A look at where you'll be buying your gravlax in Red Hook come next week.
3) In Aspen, Bobby Flay discusses how Bobby Flay became Bobby Flay.
4) Ready? Matsugen, the new Japanese restaurant from Jean-Georges Vongerichten (Jean-Georges, people!) opens in Tribeca tomorrow.
5) The richest 25-year-old in Brooklyn wants to open a gourmet donut shop in Wiliamsburg.

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This week's top dish from Eater, Curbed's restaurant, bar, and nightlife blog...

1) Merkato 55: Shitshow!
2) Wakiya: Not a shitshow!
3) Kobe Club: Shitshow!
4) Ninja: Somehow, some way, not a shitshow!
5) Mr. Chow Tribeca: Shitshow!

And, lastly, the worst table in New York. Current leader pictured above.

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1) The DOB and DOH was set loose on the West Village, and no restaurant was safe!
2) New feature alert: fancy lawyers review their fancy lunches. Potential.
3) Just in case you missed it: Good God, Chumley's!
4) Mercadito on Avenue B tried to satisfy disgruntled customers with booze-free margaritas. Misplay!
5) Daniel Boulud loves America a lot for a guy from France.

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This week's top dish from Eater, Curbed's restaurant, bar, and nightlife blog...

1) Shocker of the week: Momofuku Ko now open seven days a week. Nonshocker of the week: You still can't get a table.
2) A reality show filming at the old Kelly & Peng restaurant space at Bowery and East 2nd Street? Color us intrigued...
3) Pizza Scandal Part I: Lombardi's closed 20 minutes early!
4) Pizza Scandal Part II: Oh yeah? Una Pizza Napoletana closed at 5:30!
5) Why do restaurants ask for your phone number before you've reserved a table? A lot of weeding out, apparently.

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1) A new snazzy rooftop lounge opened up for Midtown coolguys, the women they love, and the $18 cocktails they all consume.
2) A full report from Taste of the Nation NYC, including appearances from all your favorite celebrity chefs and cheftestants.
3) Self-serve fro-yo is becoming as ubiquitous as other types of fro-yo.
4) Is begun: 2nd Ave. Deli's catering operation moving next door to the hopes and dreams of East 14th Street?
5) How bloody is too bloody when it comes to skate? Eater commenters weigh in!

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1) Red Hook Ikea week continues, with a peek inside the future 450-seat restaurant in the megastore, where "New York specialties" will join regular menu items like lingonberries and Swedish meatballs.
2) Brooklyn's Community Board 6 has voted against renewing the liquor license for Slope bar Union Hall. Gothamist has comedian Eugene Mirman's response.
3) In record time, ill-conceived West Village tempura joint BarFry has become ill-coneived West Village goat joint Cabrito.
4) Even though he signed an affidavit saying he'd stay away, there's a rumor going around that Shake Shack restaurateur Danny Meyer wants to operate the controversial Union Square restaurant. Hmm...

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This week's top dish from Eater, Curbed's restaurant, bar, and nightlife blog...

1) These postcards sent out to lure back Swich delivery customers are genius.
2) The Momofuku Ko Craigslist reservation scandal is one filled with secrets and lies. Was there a double booking?!
3) Speaking of scandal, where has the fancy art gone at Cipriani Downtown?
4) The weirdest mash-up in the East Village, the diner/curry shop, is no more.
5) Orchard Street shitshow club Tut's gets shuttered, rather forcefully!

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This week's top dish from Eater, Curbed's restaurant, bar, and nightlife blog...

1) Forget Steak Frites. Café Society is is open on Union Square with fried squid with crispy ginger and garlic.
2) Bubby's is experiencing major suckage and the fries are for shit.
3) Bleecker Street's Massif Central wasn't just shuttered, it was seized.
4) The ongoing saga of Wild Edibles continues with a contempt of court motion filed by the International Workers of the World union. Do they want to "end capitalism"?
5) First there was Wafflegate. Then, there was the response.

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This week's top dish from Eater, Curbed's restaurant, bar, and nightlife blog...

1) The surest sign of spring: Carroll Gardens' Gowanus Yacht Club has opened. And they're hiring! Sharpen those pencils.
2) Pinkberry's mysterious concoction is now, officially, frozen yogurt. Yay?
3) What's the worst restaurant table in New York? Some nominees are already in.
4) Celebrated Chinatown coffee shop/breakfat spot Mei Lai Wah was shuttered by the DOH, making this article very poorly timed.
5) It looks like all the buzz from the Gossip Girl mention has worn off at Gilt, in the Palace Hotel. Quite the press release!

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This week's top dish from Eater, Curbed's restaurant, bar, and nightlife blog...

1) On Grand Street in Williamsburg, Action Burger takes the comic book thing to the extreme, but the "hero" and "villain" menus are a cute touch.
2) Poor little Sparky's. The Lafayette Street hot dog spot is the DOH's latest victim.
3) The Denton brothers are about to change Gramurray forever! Here's their Bar Milano.
4) Atomic Wings has been very naughty, friends. And now they've been busted!
5) Ted Turner is insane.

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This week's top dish from Eater, Curbed's restaurant, bar, and nightlife blog...

1) Jerry Joseph of dearly-departed Soho institution Jerry's, is thisclose to opening his Chambers Street Asian street food emporium. Really.
2) We always thought the boring James Beard Awards needed some sex appeal. Enter: Kim Cattrall.
3) Holy crap, WD-50 is doing lunch. Have we just witnessed the invention of the Lower East Side power lunch?
4) Bar Milano, Jason Denton's glamorous restaurant for an unglamorous part of town, is just five days out.
5) Hangover observations from Food & Wine's Best New Chefs party: yes, that was Joey McIntyre.

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This week's top dish from Eater, Curbed's restaurant, bar, and nightlife blog...

1) That there garage and yard will soon be serving up some of the most beloved BBQ in all of Brooklyn. Here are the details on the new Pies 'n Thighs space.
2) The cooks of Top Chef just can't stop whoring themselves out. Hey, you gotta strike while the spatula is hot, or something.
3) Holy mother of mercy, people are eating at Ago!
4) Bar Milano, which we can safely say will be the coolest restaurant to ever open at the corner of Third Avenue and 24th Street, progresses.
5) Lost City's Brooks of Sheffield answers that crucial question: Who Goes There?

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This week's top dish from Eater, Curbed's restaurant, bar, and nightlife blog...

1) Meet the masked wrestlers of Cafe Habana, Tio Tostone, Senor Elote and El Diablo.
2) The most entertaining restaurant feud in Tribeca involves Italian-Argentinian food and a divorce settlement.
3) Multi-faceted Soho hotspot La Esquina may have to do without that sidewalk liquor license, if the locals get their way.
4) The new Burger Shoppe is supposed to be FiDi's Shake Shack, except that it's, uh, not.
5) Top Chef ep2 analysis: New Yorkers steal the show! Woo! NYC! NYC!

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This week's top dish from Eater, Curbed's restaurant, bar, and nightlife blog...

1) What, you thought LES gastropub Spitzer's Corner was going to go without comment?
2) MomoMania ruled the world, as David Chang's Ko made its East Village debut. The scalpers are already out in force.
3) But if you want an impossible-to-get table at the city's best restaurants on short notice for free, Eater has your back.
4) St. Marks falafel shop Chickpea is going glatt kosher, and offering 3 G's to anyone who can come up with a new name.
5) Any Top Chef fans out there? Check out the ep1 debriefing for analysis.

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· Bruni does Bar Boulud, drops two stars on world's most-discussed charcuterie [NYT]
· Meanwhile, Bruni busts Fiamma for price gouging after three-star review [NYT]
· Five-star rave for Ducasse's touchscreen wine emporium Adour [TONY]
· Essex House's fancy new South Gate doesn't impress the RG [NYDN]
· Cuozzo calls Upper West Side savior Dovetail 'fine but frustrating' [NYP]
· West Village newbie Commerce sounds like it would make a better bar [Strongbuzz]
· Only in Tribeca: steak and burger place does lobster quesadillas, mussels [NYJournal]
· Did critic slam restaurant after being called a douchebag? [Serious Eats]
· Keith McNally setting up shop at Village's legendary Minetta Tavern [Eater]
· Catching up with MePa legend Florent before he closes up shop [NYP]

This week's top dish from Eater, Curbed's restaurant, bar, and nightlife blog...

1) Milk & Honey, Little Branch, etc., etc., maestro Sasha Petraske's East Village coffee shop(?) The Mercury Dime is imminent.
2) Restaurant/design superstars AvroKO are taking over the former Mannahatta space on the Bowery. House-churned butter TK.
3) Spotted Pig daddy Ken Friedman's new West Village bar the Rusty Knot soft-opened, then closed up shop for a few days.
4) Someone is buying Greenwich Village landmark Minetta Tavern, but is it Keith McNally? Well, is it?
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This week's top dish from Eater, Curbed's restaurant, bar, and nightlife blog...

1) The paper is down at Robert DeNiro's Greenwich Hotel in Tribeca, and Eater has interior pics of its soon-to-open restaurant, Ago.
2) How many ego-driven chefs will it take to run The Windsor into the ground? Four.
3) Did Soho's Fiamma respond to a positive Times review by cutting costs and jacking up prices?
4) Rocco DiSpirito (remember him?) is gearing for a comeback (maybe).
5) Put that wallet away, wiener-loving friend, because the Gray's Papaya on 14th Street and Seventh Avenue is giving away free hot dogs!

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