June 11, 2008
Food news: Barney Greengrass, Florent, Ago, Nathan's
 Barney Greengrass turns 100 today and it's rolling back its prices to 1908 rates, no asterisk included. The family-owned, "Sturgeon King," is often cited as one of the best smoked fish purveyors in New York City.
The 4th of July hot-dog contest at Coney Island sponsored by Nathan's Famous may drop the epic eating fest down to 10 minutes from the 12-minute race it's been for at least two decades, the Brooklyn Paper reports. Evidence has surfaced that it started at 10 minutes. As Major League eating announces:
Major League Eating has elected to conduct all qualifying rounds of the 2008 multi-city Nathan's Famous circuit tour as 10-minute competitions and may shift to this duration permanently, making it the official contest length. More information will follow. Read the brutal New York Times take-down of Ago, the restaurant in Robert DeNiro's much-hyped new Greenwich Hotel. It starts with the bartendaer's “Poseidon Adventure� of wine spills on the reviewer's date during the 52 minute delay for their table that was "little bigger than a bike wheel." Oh, there's more:This restaurant isn’t in the hospitality business. It’s in the attitude business, projecting an aloofness that permeated all of my meals there, nights of wine and poses for swingers on the make, cougars on the prowl and anyone else who values a sort of facile fabulousness over competent service or a breaded veal Milanese with any discernible meat. Gourmet magazine has weighed in with its ode to Florent, the much-loved Meatpacking stand-by that will close forever as of June 29. Hit eBay for its CBGB-style sale of its interiors.
In the same neighborhood, Lotus will shutter June 15 according to Eater.
June 11, 2008 10:21 AM in Cheap Stuff, Downtown, Drinkology, Foodology, History, Hotelology, Out of Manhattan, Upper West Side
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