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• The New Yorker's Tables for Two swooned over Cookshop, until they felt like they couldn't linger over dessert. [Bring Cookshop home with Joe's Eating In recipe for Cod with Chickpea Stew, pictured at right!]

New York Metro rounds up some restaurants where you can warm up in front of the fire when it gets cold and snowy outside, including Per Se (if you can snag a reservation), and Savoy (the cheeseburgers there are divine, by the way). We'd like to add a few to the mix, including the delightful and cozy Applewood in Park Slope (get the butter-poached lobster), the back room in the Art Bar (for drinks), and the quaint Jack's Luxury Oyster Bar (although we haven't been there since Maxime Bilet took over the helm from Allison Vines-Rushing). Other fireplace suggestions?

Oddly enough, we didn't get many responses to our last post on winter drinks -- perhaps it was because, just a few short weeks ago, it felt more like spring than winter. But now that we've seen a few snow flurries and have had several occasions to bust out the hats, scarves and gloves, we're definitely ready for some boozy beverages to warm us up. Thankfully, the good folks at New York Metro gave us a roundup this week of where to find some warm drinks for the cold weather. Whether it's mulled wine at Cafe Sabarsky or Cafe Steinhof, the Green Tea Hot Toddy at Good World Bar and Grill, or the good old Irish Coffee (made with Clontarf in lieu of the more standard Jameson's) at Maggie's place, you'll stay warm when it's cold outside. So now that you're more in the mood, where do you go for your winter warmers? We know for a fact that if you're really nice to the bartenders at Otto, they just might concoct some special boozy goodness to go with their utterly decadent hot chocolate, and that Hearth serves some fantastic warm drinks, including the Kathy Madison, a ginger-infused hot cider with bourbon, which will warm up even the frostiest toes.

- An Eater reader spotted a sign on the window of the space that was briefly Yumcha from Marc Murphy, the chef and owner of Landmarc, announcing his intention to open a new oyster bar after minimal renovation. Andrea Strong now reports that it will be named Watermarc.

A Gothamist reader tipped us off and Florence Fabricant confirmed that Black Pearl, the New England style clam and lobster shack in the back of the East Village bar, Julep has closed. We will mourn quietly and head back to Pearl Oyster Bar.

Gothamist recently had a chance to visit Bleu Drawes Cafe in northern Greenpoint for some really tasty Jamaican food. The tiny restaurant - we're talking 16 seats here - has a delicious jerk chicken and a signature dessert of sweet-potato pudding. The only drawback (or benefit, depending on how you feel) is that Bleu Drawes is difficult to get to.

Bozu in Williamsburg serves tasty Japanese Tapas, mostly priced under $10. Be prepared, however, for tapas-sized portions and expense after you end up ordering several dishes. While they do serve some traditional sushi at Bozu, they also have "sushi bombs" (2nd picture in the extended entry).

Fall is here, and you know what that means -- Fall restaurant preview time. From what we've read in New York Metro and the New York Times, it looks like we've got a lot to look forward to, including openings from not one but two Iron Chefs -- Batali's Del Posto (85 10th Avenue) and Morimoto's Morimoto (88 10th Avenue). Gothamist is pretty excited about a few others, including Bar Carrera (175 Second Avenue), from Bar Veloce's Fred Twomey, who told us about his new Spanish wine and small plates venture a few months ago at a Spanish wine event; the Fatty Crab (643 Hudson St), the latest from 5 Ninth's Zak Pelaccio, which will dabble in Asian street foods, including Jalan Alor chicken wings and chili crabs served with white bread; and Mo Pitkin's House of Satisfaction (34 Avenue A), serving a Jewish/Latin menu, which we have to try, if for no other reason, than to taste the Manischevitini, a cocktail made with Manischewitz wine - what would our bubbes think? Then again, any spot where chopped liver, chorizo meatballs, and crab-stuffed deviled eggs can share the same plate is worth a visit. Mo Pitkin's is open; the others are scheduled to open this month, but you know how that goes.

People are all in a fuss about the foie gras. Sure, some people love it, even celebrate it, but others aren't so enamoured of this gourmet delicacy. In fact, there is legislation in the works at the state Assembly which would ban foie gras production. New York Metro recently focused on the fight between duck-loving activists and duck liver lovers.

Between a trip out to Fire Island this weekend, and New York Metro's wrap-up of new fish shacks, Gothamist is ready for summer. While our all-time favorite is Pearl Oyster Bar, we're eager to try the newbies -- Black Pearl, in the East Village, and Bar Minnow in Park Slope. We've already had a sample of the fish shack at BLT Fish, and while we only got a tiny taste of the raw bar and a batch of fried oysters (pictured at left), we want to head back for another round soon.

There was that Seinfeld episode, The Understudy, where Elaine tries to understand what the Korean manicurists are saying about her.

Gothamist is a sucker for a street fair. We're not talking about the neighborhood-based, culturally-themed festivals that pop up from time to time. Those are great, but we'll take the tired old generic street fair - factory-second underwear and all - that pops up on a different Manhattan avenue every Saturday and Sunday from March through November. Sure, they're all the same, but who can resist the predictable variety of these so-bad-for-you-but-so-good movable feasts? Among our favorites:

Did somebody say wedding season? Continuing the theme of marriage-related questions, this one comes in from TM in Manhattan.