Some love it to the point of being freakishly cultish. Others don't see what the big deal is. But everyone can agree on one thing: you can do plenty of productive things with the time you spend waiting on line to get a burger at Shake Shack. We checked in hamburger expert Adam Kuban of A Hamburger Today, who wrote last week, "Ai yah. It hasn't even opened yet, I'm already getting sick of......

LAist has so much fun this week! They go to E3, where they overhear the timeless remark "Man, this is where nerdy girls get laid." Is that a promise? They also give us this week's best CDs and make us realize that LA is the best place to use Zillow. Ah, Houstonist. They're biking to work, that is, if they can figure out how to get there. That's right, Mapquest says "Houston had the......

Everyone's in a tizzy this week about Puff & Pao, the new cream puff/Brazilian cheese bread place opening in the West Village, owned by a former lawyer (eh . . . all us foodies are former lawyers, big whoop). But we've also noticed another cream puff addition to the neighborhood -- Choux Factory, on 8th Street between 5th & 6th Avenues. Between those two and Beard Papa over on Astor, the Village might just be......

We've already told you about Beard Papa coming to Broadway near Astor Place in the near future, but we've got two more openings on the horizon. First, around the corner from the future Beard Papa, Cold Stone Creamery on Astor Place, in the former home of Astor Place Haircuts. Between the two of those, we'll be busy for a while, but there are days when Gothamist is looking for something slightly more healthy and less......

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NYU students and other Union Square/East Village residents will appreciate the fact that the delicious cream puffs of Beard Papa is coming to Astor Place. Gothamist had no idea Beard Papa was moving there (we tend to walk down Lafayette), until Jesse Chan-Norris sent us a link to some photographs (including the one above). Gothamist thinks this location should be open till at least 10PM, since many visitors will probably have late-night munchies. Beard Papa......

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Cream puff, thy smell and taste is divine. When Gothamist read that a Beard Papa was opening up on Broadway at 76th Street, we knew we had to check it out. So this past beautiful and sunny Sunday, we headed to the store with Paul Frankenstein. There were three ways we knew it was the Beard Papa store: (1) The line of people outside that snaked well outside the door; (2) the standing display of......

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It's good times on the Upper West Side for food:The Times reports on the cream puffs at 76th and Broadway as well as the return of Katy Sparks! First, Beard Papa, an Asian chain that sells cream puffs, has a location at 2167 Broadway; the Times' Florence Fabricant described the fare as "fresh, crisp, peach-size cream puffs, $1.25, are split and filled while still warm with sumptuous vanilla cream." Mmm. And Gothamist had wondered about......