Results tagged “marlowandsons”

Robert LaValva, a former city planner-turned-founder of New Amsterdam Market, has been working four years to establish a food destination that will reconnect modern, regional agriculture to the civic tradition of the city’s bygone markets. One of the group’s underlying ideas is that an integrated market can be fundamentally different than a greenmarket; that is, a market fosters closer connections between farmers and bakers, or butchers and cheesemongers, for example, and drives down prices, creating a public space and a revitalized food community in the process.

        

A former barbershop on Broadway by the Williamsburg Bridge has become the latest addition to the expanding South Williamsburg culinary corridor, which includes (but is not limited to) Bridge Urban Winery, Marlow & Sons, Diner, Dressler, Miss Favela and La Superior. Now add Marlow & Daughters to the list; and before you get all "die yuppie scum!" please note that the barbershop closed only because the owner passed away over the summer, according to Brooklyn Based. (Of course it's possible he died from a heart broken by gentrification.)

Plated is a new feature that delivers the origin story of a dish, as told by an establishment’s chefs and owners. Maybe even once in a while by its dishwashers.