Tag: restaurants

Arte Pasta, which replaced Dean's pizzeria on 85th street just East of Broadway, opened a few days ago and we're starting to hear good things. The restaurant

There's been quite a bit of recent action on the Upper West Side restaurant scene.

Editor's Note: Below, Stan Solomon takes a look at DBA's, the names that restaurants use that often differ from their legal names. And at the bottom, there's a quiz!

Telepan on 69th was remodeled by a design team called hOme, with leather banquettes and new massive produce images on the walls. The color scheme

A new restaurant and bar called Barley & Grain just opened on 80th street and Amsterdam, and people keep asking us "what is that place?" (Also, one person pointed out that barley is a grain, so the name is slightly redundant.) In short, it's a restaurant with lots of comfort ...

Kefi, the popular Greek eatery on Columbus Avenue between 84th and 85th street, has been closed for almost the entire year because of a busted water pipe. The water pipe broke on January 26, flooding the restaurant's basement level over the banquettes, according to a Crain's article. It took three ...

It's been a rough month for Upper West Side eateries: Indian Cafe, which opened in 1986, is the latest restaurant to close its doors after Amsterdam Diner and Big Nick's shut down in the last couple of weeks. Indian Cafe is on Broadway between 107th and 108th street. The food ...

A few restaurants are opening soon in locations that were recently vacated, and another spot is set to reopen after a long closure.

Corvo Bianco, the Italian restaurant taking over the former home of Calle Ocho on Columbus Avenue and 81st street, is set to open its doors to the public next Monday, July 15. The opening is already generating quite a bit of buzz because the restaurant landed a well-known chef earlier ...

There's quite a bit of recent news about Upper West Side restaurants to whet your appetite.

There is lots of news this week about forthcoming openings, new menus and more at restaurants on the Upper West Side.

There's finally some action in the old Georgia's Cafe & Bakery space at 89th street and Broadway, which closed last year after a fire. A restaurant tentatively called Cibo e Vino is seeking a

The space at the corner of 102nd street and Broadway has been on an unlucky streak: First, Mama Mexico closed about a year ago, and now its replacement Maria Bonita has folded -- it "never caught on," said our tipster David. "We went a few times, most recently last weekend," ...

Birch Coffee has been planning to open a new cafe on Columbus Avenue between 96th and 97th streets for months now, but got delayed by "issues...completely out of our control." Well, those issues have clearly been solved, because Birch began serving coffee and pastries today, and the company posted the ...

This week, we have lots of Upper West Side opening, reopening and closing news to report.

The Village Voice trudged up to the Upper West Side to dine at some of our finer establishments over the past few months and put together a list of the spots they claim are the "10 best" in the neighborhood. The list may surprise you. The spots they chose range ...

After an education campaign on the Upper West Side last year, the Department of Transportation is set to begin enforcing rules for delivery bicyclists this month. The crackdown comes after years of complaints that delivery bicyclists -- many of whom are under pressure to make fast deliveries -- often flout ...

Some new restaurants recently opened on the Upper West Side, or are close to opening.

Simit & Smith, a small cafe, just opened at 124 West 72nd Street on Thursday night, selling simit, the pretzel-like pastries shown above, as well as coffee, tea and sandwiches. Simit comes in various flavors: original with sesame, whole wheat with sesame and whole grain. You can have it with ...

You read it here first: the Upper West Side is becoming a hotspot for good Chinese food again. Today, a restaurant called Legend opened on 109th near Broadway, in the former home of Rack & Soul. That, and the upcoming opening of Red Farm on 77th, is making mouths water ...