In the restaurant world, terminology like "organic," "local," and "seasonal" have become so commonplace they can be easy to ignore. But, when Market Table – which offers all three of these – opened on Carmine Street (at Bedford) in the West Village last September, they highlighted a new buzzword: market. With an emphasis on bringing food from the market directly to the table, the restaurant simultaneously offers a capacious (and beautiful) dining room headed......

As Gothamist recently noted, New Year's and the following week or so are a particularly festive occasion for the Japanese. Which is no doubt why Haru decided to celebrate the grand opening of its newest location on Wall Street last Wednesday. Hordes of sushi-crazed suits crowded the restaurant located in the historic Beaver Building for the gala event, which was also a benefit for the Downtown Alliance. Although the sushi bar teemed with platters......

What is Rudy Giuliani getting for the new year? It looks like he's in for some campaign tactics from families representing firefighters that died on 9/11 that The Post is calling "Swift Boat" like. James Riches, a deputy fire chief who's son James Jr., a firefighter who died at Ground Zero, is organizing the campaign against the former mayor. Riches told The Post that things should be "up and running" for January 1st and......

One of the first rules of using your iPod in the subway is to ditch the white headphones. Apple's tell-tale earbuds can have the negative effect of drawing attention to the fact that you are carrying a ~$400 device on you (we've known this since 2005, when iPod robberies were all the rage). Probably not something that needs to be advertised. When Gothamist first purchased our iPhone on launch day this fact weighed heavily......

Arnaud Desplechin in Focus Museum of the Moving Image When Gothamist saw cinematographer-turned-director Arnaud Desplechin's film Kings and Queen two years ago, we knew we were watching something unique. His movie about a French woman and the three important men in her life—her adorable son, her crazy ex-husband and her dying father—unfolds so organically you get completely caught up in the complex characters, utterly forgetting that Desplechin is expertly telling his story in a very......

When Gothamist first visited Tribeca's Devin Tavern, home of the rustic American fare offered by the purveyors of nearby steakhouse Dylan Prime, we left our dinner dreaming of a memorable corn souffle and pepper basil caipirinhas. Devin recently added Sunday brunch to their repetoire so Gothamist decided to drop by and see how the menu compared to the dinner cuisine. The menu is a succint two pages: one of beverages and one of food,......

The government is asking Americans not to eat spinach as it continues to investigate the E.coli outbreak related to the leafy green. Spinach - and other vegetable - supplier Natural Selection has been cleared of contamination, but the FDA hasn't lifted the recalls on Natural Selection brands. But some restaurants and grocery stores are still featuring spinach, as the Post reports seeing "spinach soups, spinach pizzas and even bunches of fresh spinach." Now, spinach soups......

- On the way home from a dual trip to Schnack and Fernando’s in Red Hook, Peter Hoffman and his blue greenmarketcycle popped up on the corner of Houston and Lafayette as our ride dispatched us onto the corner. As per usual, he was effusive about his eats – specifically jazzed up about the big clam bake Savoy has nightly through the end of July. Here is some discussion from Mouthfuls. - When Gothamist does......

This past weekend marked the opening of the new Tasting Room in the old M&R Bar space on Elizabeth just south of Houston. The bar is open for business to all comers, but it was mostly friends & family, and the food will be at least 10 days behind the booze. Speaking of old spaces, with this opening, the previous Tasting Room space on First Street is now closed until late summer when it......

There are few things New Yorkers love more than a good slice of pizza, but add an outdoor garden and a cup of the city's finest spumoni and you've got yourself a sliver of urban heaven. Trek out to L&B Spumoni Gardens located in(conveniently) in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn and you'll find all of these magic ingredients: sizzling hot sicilian slices, icy cold spumoni (mix of vanilla, chocolate, and pistachio ices), and an open garden for......

The idea is simple, the execution more complex: open a restaurant dedicated solely to mac n' cheese. Synonymous with comfort food, mac n' cheese brings back memories gooey cheddar, blue kraft boxes, and pure indulgence, but when the husband-wife team of Caesar & Sarita Ekya opened S'MAC a scant week ago, they didn't stop there. Cheese purists and engineers on the wayside, S'MAC's menu boasts 10 deluxe mac n' cheese combos either on traditional......

When Gothamist thinks summer, we think of Sundaes & Cones. While for some that's just ice cream, for others, it's Royce Chan's newly relocated, but long-revered ice cream shop, now on E. 10th St. between 3rd & 4th Avenues (formerly in Sunset Park). Homemade ice creams and sorbets that don't break the bank are served in standard vanilla, chocolate, and cookies n' cream, but more obscure flavors really make the indulgance worth it. We......

When Gothamist decided to air its dirty laundry last month, we had no idea what we were starting. Who knew so many people were having the same discoloration issues with their dwell bedding! After running the post, we were quickly contacted by the people at dwell (as you can see from the comments section). They agreed to replace our bedding and asked that we simply use a mild detergent and stay away from anything with......

When Gothamist was wee we learned a basic fact of life from Lon Chaney: acid on the face is not a good idea. This lesson came back to us when we heard that "a man was killed in a gruesome attack yesterday after someone threw a caustic substance on him and melted his face in the Bronx, police sources said." The attacked man (his name is being withheld pending family notification) was sitting yesterday......

The trailer for the Oliver Stone movie, World Trade Center movie, will be shown during previews this weekend. And Paramount Picture will have a warning before it plays, given how some people were upset when the Flight 93/United 93 trailer came out in March. In fact, some theater chains will be posting signs to warn moviegoers. Well, Gothamist hopes it's a sign warning them that the trailer is terrible. World Trade Center is based on......

Just over a year old, but with a window full of gastronomic accolades, former Le Cirque pastry chef Iacopo Falai's eponymously named Clinton Street joint radiates with new flavor and experimentation of Florentine style brought to the Lower East Side. With white tile, white tables, white chairs, white candles, and a white-bricked garden, Falai relies upon the reflections of dining patrons in the mirrors and the color of food on plates to bring color......

If you ever thought it sucked that New York had so many airports in the area, just imagine how grateful the people on American Airlines flight 321 were yesterday when they were forced to land due to engine problems. Shortly after taking off from LaGuardia, the Chicago bound flight had issues with its right engine. An American spokesperson said that only a few minutes into the flight, an indicator warned of an oil filter problem.......

When Gothamist was in college, we remember watching curling on the CBC and thinking that it was the coolest sport ever. We just couldn't get enough of it. Good thing we could watch the CBC. When we came back to New York, we were out of luck - no curling. Yesterday, the United States men's curling team won its first Olympic curling medal ever. Led by Pete Fenson, the United States defeated Great Britain, 8-6.......

Toby at Random Observations captured this great moment in local TV news: Sue Simmons doing her best groundhog impression during the Live at Five broadcast, writing, "It is something that I always look forward to every year." When Gothamist caught the 11PM broadcast, Chuck Scarborough created quite a fanfare for Simmons to repeat the impression. And suddenly we realized that while WNBC mentioned Punxsutawny Phil, they neglected to mention another Chuck - Staten Island Chuck......

When Gothamist was a little kid we always looked forward to our Upstate vacations. Sure, helping Grandpa milk the cows was fun, and visiting our older cousins was always a treat, but the real treat came at night. Our cousins lived a mile or two north of a Nestle's Chocolate plant. On nights with a southerly breeze the whole town would fill with the smell of chocolate. It was as if we had moved to......

A shuttered 2nd Avenue Deli was an unfamiliar site on an otherwise regular Thursday - except that people knew that owner Jack Lebewohl was engaged in a kind of protest against his new owners, Jonis Realty, over a $9,000 increase in rent to $33,000 per month. The NY Times sets up the situation as an inevitable turn of the real estate market, with some interesting details: Some sort of rent increase was part of......

When Gothamist awoke from our food coma this morning, we checked all vital signs and aside from the headache from the 8 bottles of wine our family polished off, it was official, we survived the holidays. Now with Christmas and Hanukah under our belt (along with a few extra inches, like we could resist those triple fudge brownies...we are human, damnit!) we turn our attention to New Year's, the holiday where we can truly focus......

On our walk to work this morning, we found the streets pretty busy for early in the morning, with people walking to work, stopping at coffee carts and nodding at each other in recognition that, yes, many of us were wearing sensible shoes. When Gothamist made it to our office, another building worker asked us how we got in. And it struck us: The socially accepted walls of silence were crumbling down as we were......

Members of one of the city's largest taxi driver's union are saying they'll strike if the Taxi and Limousine Commission doesn't raise fares and if the TLC installs GPS into the cabs. The union says the fare hike is necessary because of rising gas prices (they'd like a surcharge if gas prices are above $2). Newsday notes that neither Mayor Bloomberg or Fernando Ferrer have weighed in on the matter, and perhaps that's because TLC......

With a century-old subway, we expect track work and construction to cause some issues with our travels. But when the subway's service advisories (via email and in-station signage) fail to communicate changes, what are riders supposed to do? Gothamist Weather's Joe Schumacher encountered the insane and inane "handling" of the diverted 2/3 service over the weekend, surmising that "All the MTA had to say was the 3 isn't running and the 2 is replaced by......

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Most of the time, Gothamist is happy to watch TV and our Netflix and be ok with not reading stuff. But when we got our mitts on a book written by a TV writer, it seemed like a decent compromise. Six Feet Under writer and producer Jill Soloway's book Tiny Ladies in Shiny Pants is pretty hilarious and she will be doing a couple of book signings and shows this week that Gothamist is very......

Dan Hoyt, the East Village man suspected of masturbating on the subway only to have a rider cameraphone his picture and put it online which then made him a front page story on the Daily News, surrendered to the police yesterday. However, he claimed his innocence saying, "I didn't do anything," as he was paraded out in Columbus Circle. When Gothamist watched the local news coverage of this, it looked as though he was leaving......

When Gothamist has been accused of only drinking ourselves into oblivion in cool, interesting neighborhoods our only defense has been that it's easier to to stumble home than wake up at the end of F line. In fairness, this week we learned we could also stumble to the bar and found ourselves in Underground in what we can safely say in neither a cool nor interesting neighborhood. Sorry. It's unusual that a bar actually makes......

When Gothamist thinks of going to a football game we think of many things not the least of which is tailgating. But apparently in the New York area those days are over, and not because the Jets are moving to a stadium without a parking lot (that didn't work out, remember?). In response to the Xandadu retail and entertainment complex being built next door to Giants stadium the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority......