In case you've been living under a shipwreck a rock for the past few weeks or are a barely functioning member of humanity, the Titanic is celebrating its 100-year deathaversary next week. Perhaps you weren't in the market to plunk down $12,500 for Groupon's Titanic vacation package, and maybe you're not quite prepared to drop $450 on a "tragically tasty" recreation of the doomed ship's last meal. But lo, all hope is not lost! more ›

This week Sam Sifton at the Times files an unenthusiastic one star review on the flashy Bryant Park location of Charlier Palmer's Aureole. Palmer, a restaurant impresario who made his bones in the kitchen of the River Cafe, relocated his well-liked restaurant from the Upper East Side to the new Bank of America building this summer. more ›