East Village Eats

Food & Drink recommendations straight from the East Village, New York City

Show Your Support For Josie’s

Ever since the owner of Joe’s Bar passed away last Thanksgiving there has been much speculation about what would happen to the bar.  It turns out that the team behind Sophie’s & Mona’s will be taking over the space & calling it Josie’s.  They’re asking for help from the neighborhood to support the liquor license transfer.  If […]

Holy Mole Week at La Palapa

La Palapa, a Mexican restaurant renowned (by me) for excellent Margaritas is launching a special menu next week.  Chef Barbara Sibley is serving 6 dishes featuring mole (mole comes in several varieties & colors; Poblano, Oaxaca, San Pedro Actopan, see Wikipedia for more info) will be on offer for a week starting on Easter Sunday.  As per […]

Food News

Randolph Beer coming to Broome St. from Gothamist 9th St. Espresso will be taking over part of the old Life Cafe via EV Grieve Awesome ramen infographic from HackCollege Lanza’s celebrates it’s 108th birthday with special lunches via Neighborhoodr. Eater reports that Kate’s Joint might have to add meat to the menu. Edi & The Wolf expanding into […]

Acme

Back in May of last year I wrote about how Acme, one of my favorite Southern food mainstays, had unceremoniously closed (employees were given no notice at all), completely gutted (EVGrieve has coverage) & after lengthy renovations opened as a Nordic (by way of Scandinavia) restaurant.  The team from Bond St. managed to convince Chef Mads Refslund, a […]

Choice Eats 2012

I’ve been to a few Food Events over the past few years, so it wasn’t my first rodeo, but nothing prepared me for the scale of this year’s Choice Eats tasting event that took place last week.  I thought I’d be clever & arrive 15 minutes early to ‘avoid the crowd’, but we were greeted […]

Joe’s Bar Becoming Josie’s?

After Joe’s Bar owner passed away last Thanksgiving, the future of the bar has been totally up in the air.  There are rumors that Bob Corton, part of the team at nearby Sophie’s & Mona’s farther north will be taking over the space & it will be called Josie’s.  According to the rumor-mill, Joe’s ‘widow’ […]

Toucan & The Lion Revisited

I first visited back in December (review) and tried a few dishes from what I thought was the full menu.  It turns out that that was just the tip of the iceberg & the complete menu is now in full swing.  Not much has changed, but there are now 8 shared plates, 5 mains, 5 sides & a […]

The Toucan And The Lion

A few weeks ago I mentioned that a new restaurant was opening in the former Mara’s Homemade spot on 6th Street.  I had a chance to check the place out last night & I’ll admit that I was very impressed.  It’s really hard to believe that this is the same space, gone are the purple […]

The Brooklyn Star

I don’t travel to Brooklyn that much, but dinner at The Brooklyn Star with friends seemed too good to pass up. I was busy eating junk food at home when I got a text inviting me to dinner. Obviously, I had to look at the menu online first, but once I saw Fried Pig Tail, […]

Bond Street Revisited

I’ve been going to Bond Street for about 10 years now.  Opting for the downstairs lounge as friends of mine have worked there, I’ve always had a good time.  Not to be cheating on my East Village sushi mainstay, Takahachi, but Bond St. takes it to another level entirely.  My last two visits with my […]

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