Official word is that the Employees Only gang have found a new home for Zeppelin, the bar/restaurant originally slated for West 9th Street, in Tribeca. Construction starts next week on a former bar around Church and Worth Streets with an opening slated for September ...

Continue reading "Employees Only Offshoot "Zeppelin" Alights on Church Street" on our restaurant blog, Bottomless Dish.

As reported by Grub Street some weeks back, there's been activity inside the space formerly occupied by East Village restaurant Uovo at 11th Street and Avenue B, soon to be La Scarpetta. I knocked on the front door this afternoon and had a nice chat with the executive chef, who confirmed that an Italian restaurant is in the works and will be opening in some capacity very soon, but the exact plans remain up in the air after the community board twice denied them a liquor license. They are in the process of appealing to the state liquor authority and have a lawyer who has "never lost a case"--although lawyers throw that phrase around as much as their clients do the phrase "I'm being framed," so make of it what you will.  ... Continue reading on Bottomless Dish.

Hey remember when Citysearch did that great Fashion Week quiz video and that lumberjack tour of Williamsburg? Yes, you do, and you loved them. Well now comedian/occasional Citysearch video contributor Nick Rutherford is performing with the sketch group Good Neighbor on Mo Pitkin's last night EVER before it closes down. ... Read about it on Fashion Geek.