Tag: food

The standard tip at a New York bar has clearly been on the upswing in recent years, but one customer at the Empire Hotel rooftop bar recently got charged an automatic tip that nearly blew his mojito off. An unidentified tipster sent a receipt into the blog Eater this week ...

Zabar's finally landed on a new name for the Lobster Salad that wasn't. As we reported a few weeks ago, Zabar's was selling a seafood salad made with crayfish as "lobster salad", charging more than $15 a pound. A columnist for the New Orleans Times-Picayune on a visit to New ...

A new Italian restaurant known for excellent pizza is slated to open in the spot vacated last year by The West Branch, the restaurant run by noted chef Tom Valenti.

Momofuku Milk Bar will open at 561 Columbus Avenue around 87th Street in September, New York magazine reported (hat-tip to Eater). David Chang, the inventive chef behind East Village noodle emporium Momofuku and its various spin-offs, added Milk Bar about three years ago, with pastry chef Christina Tosi at the ...

Maybe they make Chicago-style pizza so deep because they're...hiding something. The health department closed UNO Chicago Grill at 432 Columbis Avenue on the corner of 81st Street on Thursday because it had racked up too many health violations, including roach and fly problems and a lack of personal cleanliness by ...

In the past month, we learned of the demise of Borders and some other well-loved or kinda-loved Upper West Side haunts. But tons of new stores and restaurants are coming to the neighborhood (match the numbers in the map to the numbers in the story). Read on! 1. West Side ...

Amid all of the recent high-profile businesses closing (H&H! Borders! Cafe Con Leche!) on the Upper West Side, a bunch of new restaurants are preparing to open up shop or have just opened in the neighborhood. So don't despair. One of my favorite tipsters, Daren, recently snapped some shots of ...

Cuban joint Cafe Con Leche has closed its location at 726 Amsterdam Avenue between 95th and 96th Street, and a new restaurant will open in its spot. It's unclear what that new restaurant will serve: according to a message on the restaurant's answering machine it's going to be a French ...

Magnolia Bakery may not have started on the Upper West Side, but it's celebrating its 15th anniversary here on Saturday with some kid-friendly events that are sure to send the lines out the door. From 1 to 4 p.m. on Saturday, come to Magnolia on West 69th Street and Columbus ...

By Laura Weiss With the new Upper East Side 25,000 square foot Fairway opening July 20, will Upper West Siders get Fairway envy? The new store boasts three high-speed elevators to whisk you to the second floor. No balky coughing, wheezing contraption like the conveyance in the UWS locale. The ...

Friday night Chinese food was practically a religion on the Upper West Side in the 1980's and 90's, but that era is mostly over. The emergence of other Asian foods, and the gradual decline of local Chinese food, has left a hole in the heart of the neighborhood. In January, ...

Bacchus Wines at 2056 Broadway between 70th and 71st streets  is shutting its doors on Wednesday because the owners lost their lease, and the company is liquidating its inventory. Wines, glasses and other supplies are flying off the shelf today at 30% off, and spirits are going for 20% off. ...

The city marshals have been getting awfully familiar with the Upper West Side, as they recently shut down another shop around the same time they locked the doors at the famous H&H Bagels last week. Café St. Honore, the quaint little cafe next to Bomboloni at 189 Columbus Avenue between ...

After a week of uncertainty about when exactly H&H would close, city marshals seized the building on Wednesday, and the landlord slapped a sign on the front proclaiming "Store for Rent". Just like that, a neighborhood fixture since 1972 was gone. West Side Rag reader Gavan sent us photos of ...

H&H removed its bagel oven from its 80th street store on Sunday and took the chandeliers out of the ceiling on Monday, presumably destroying whatever slight hope Upper West Siders had of the store being saved. But the company is already looking for a new place to sell bagels on ...

This month, we have plenty of openings and closings to report, but first, a moment of silence for H&H Bagels... Okay, now that that's over with, let's talk new wine bars, shirt shops, food markets, luggage stores, and doggie and human pampering businesses. As for closings: tea, pizza and makeup ...

H&H bagels is slated to shut its doors Tuesday, but one local resident isn't taking the news sitting down, with a hot cup of coffee and some lox and cream cheese. He is standing up to fight the transformation of our neighborhood into one giant waiting room for Duane Reade ...

Although all eyes are on H&H Bagels today as the famous bagel shop shuts its doors this week, there is some hope for foodies in the neighborhood -- particularly in the northern reaches of the Upper West Side. Today, Ryan Skeen, who was formerly the chef at Fishtag on West ...

The great Upper West Side photographer Glark, or "David" as his parents call him, has put together a hilarious photo essay about the misspellings at fruit stands throughout the Upper West Side. He's thankfully given us permission to post a few of them below. Check out the rest on his ...