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2012 Dine In Brooklyn restaurant week: March 19-29
Brooklyn’s restaurant week, Dine In Brooklyn, will be held March 19 to 29, the borough’s president, Marty Markowitz, announced Wednesday night during his 2012 State of the Borough speech.
Prices and participating restaurants have not yet been announced.
In 2011, Brooklyn Restaurant Week offered three-course lunches for $20.11 and dinners for $25 at more than 200 locations. Some also offered “two for the price of one” meals.
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February 3, 2012 12:40 PM Comments (0)
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Fashion Week foodies get a prix-fixe meal deal
 To coincide with the return of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, 25 restaurants near Lincoln Center will offer their own mini-restaurant week deals from Feb. 9 through 16.
Deals and prices vary with the Lincoln Square’s Fashion Plate Prix Fixe. Many offer lunch and dinner prix fixe deals while some also include brunch or cocktails.
Options include a three-course fashion-inspired lunch at A Voce for $29; a three-course Porter house lunch for $28; and three-course dinner at Jalapeno for $16.
Other participating locations include Telepan, Lincoln Ristorante, Nougatine at Jean Georges, Shun Lee West, Bouchon Bakery, Boulud Sud and Ed’s Chowder House at the Empire Hotel.
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February 2, 2012 1:59 PM Comments (1)
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City Bakery reveals Hot Chocolate Fest flavors
 City Bakery today announced its lineup of flavors for its 20th annual Hot Chocolate Festival taking place throughout February.
Highlights include a “Super Bowl” flavor on Super Bowl Sunday, “Love Potion” on Valentine’s Day and the rare taste of “Leap Year” on Feb. 29.
The 2012 Hot Chocolate Festival schedule of flavors:
Feb. 1 - Sunken Treasure - (“chocolate truffles and caramel coins at the bottom of the hot chocolate ocean”)
Feb. 2 - Espresso
Feb. 3 - Ginger
Feb. 4 - Banana Peel
Feb. 5 - Super Bowl
Feb. 6 - Lemon
Feb. 7 - Tropical
Feb. 8 - Vietnamese Cinnamon
Feb. 9 - Milk Chocolate
Feb. 10 - Bourbon
Feb. 11 - Caramel
Feb. 12 - Happy
Feb. 13 - Darkest Dark
Feb. 14 - Love Potion
Feb. 15 - Moulin Rouge
Feb. 16 - Honduran
Feb. 17 - Beer (Brooklyn)
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January 24, 2012 9:02 PM
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Chocolate Week to offer free desserts Feb. 13-19
 Final preparations are underway for Chocolate Week, which will offer free desserts at several New York City restaurants from Feb. 13 through 19.
Participating restaurants include Opia, DBGB Kitchen&Bar, DB Bistro Moderne, Orsay, Cercle Rouge, Serge Bistro, Gascogne, Bistro Vendôme, Jean-Louis and both locations of the Ayza Chocolate & Wine Bar.
The deal differs at some locations, but most are offering a complementary tasting of three chocolate desserts to each customer purchasing two courses (such as an appetizer and a main) at full price. Prices vary at each restaurant and some require a Chocolate Week reservation in advance.
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January 18, 2012 11:04 AM Comments (0)
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Pancake month returns to Clinton St. Baking Co.
 The Clinton St. Baking Company & Restaurant has posted its schedule for February Pancake Month offering flavors such as crunchy bananas, chocolate raspberry and Japanese pumpkin. Valentine’s Day (a Tuesday this year,) will feature pancakes with chocolate chunks and brandied Burgundy cherries.
The February pancake specials will be available at breakfast, lunch and dinner, but weekdays only.
The 2012 pancake month schedule:
Feb. 1 and 2 - crunchy bananas with cinnamon-chili-chocolate sauce
Feb. 3 and 6 - poached pears, vanilla bean whipped cream, warm maple butter
Feb. 7, 8 and 9 - almond frangipane, fresh raspberries, toasted almonds, raspberry sauce
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January 14, 2012 2:54 PM Comments (0)
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List of NYC's best-of food lists
As it turns out, a lot of people like to make best-of food lists for New York City. Here’s a roundup of some of the Best of NYC food lists from 2011.
In this week’s issue of New York magazine, food writer Adam Platt ranks NYC’s 101 Best Restaurants.
The New York Times’ frequently updated 50 favorite restaurants list and map can be found online or in its free app.
The food blog Eater keeps a list and map of the 38 Essential NY Restaurants as well as a heatmap of restaurants that are hot right now.
Annually, Time Out lists its 100 best dishes and drinks. Online, it keeps updated lists of the best new restaurants, best cheap romantic restaurants and others.
Real Cheap Eats, a group blog updated quarterly by NYC food bloggers who write for other blogs, lists a borough-by-borough list of great dishes for $10 or less.
Both New York magazine and Time Out publish annual cheap eats guides.
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January 2, 2012 2:42 PM Comments (0)
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2012 Northeast restaurant weeks for road-trippers
 New York City Restaurant Week, now in its 20th year, has a lot of company these days.
For those looking to leave the safety of NYC, there are many restaurant weeks all over the Northeast. The following have so far confirmed restaurant week dates for 2012:
Mohegan Sun Restaurant Week - Jan. 8 through 13
Restaurant Week Metro DC - Jan. 9 through 15
Baltimore County Restaurant Week - Jan. 12 through 21
Alexandria Restaurant Week - Jan. 13 through 22
Virginia Beach Restaurant Week - Jan. 15 through 22
Providence Restaurant Weeks - Jan. 15 through 28
Pittsburgh Restaurant Week - Jan. 16 through 22
Baltimore Restaurant Week - Jan. 20 through 29
Bethesda/Chevy Chase Restaurant Week - Jan. 23 through 29
Philadelphia Center City District Restaurant Week - Jan. 23 through Feb. 3
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January 2, 2012 10:54 AM Comments (0)
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Chinatown Restaurant Week set for March 9-18
 Chinatown will get its own restaurant week this year, featuring prix fixe three-course dinners for $18.88.
Chinatown Restaurant Week is set for March 9 through 18, but restaurants have not yet been announced.
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January 1, 2012 10:32 AM Comments (0)
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Open New Year's Day 2012 in New York City
All is not quiet on New Year’s Day. Many of New York City’s museums, Broadway theaters, movie houses, ice rinks, zoos, restaurants and other venues are open on New Year’s Day.
Here’s the list of what’s confirmed open for Jan. 1, 2012:
Sports
 Coney Island Polar Bear Club New Year’s Day swim begins at 1 p.m.
Kickoff for the NY Giants home game at MetLife Stadium vs. Dallas Cowboys has been rescheduled to 8:20 p.m.
The driving range at Chelsea Piers will be open from noon to 11 p.m.
Bowlmor Times Square will open at 1 p.m.
5 Borough Bicycle Club Rides include Polar Pancakes at 9:30 a.m. and New York Botanical Garden at 10 a.m.
Big Apple 2012 Handball Tournament at Riverbank State Park from 10:30 a.m.
Museums
Museum of Modern Art will be open from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Guggenheim Museum will be open from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
American Museum of Natural History will be open from 10 a.m. to 5:45 p.m.
The recently renovated New-York Historical Society will be open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The New Museum will be open from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
New York Hall of Science will be open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The always-free National Museum of the American Indian will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Musem of the Moving Image in Queens will be open from 10:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. with Magic and Movies workshops at 1 and 3 p.m.
Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island ferries depart from Battery Park and New Jersey from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. (Liberty Island is open but the interior of the Statue of Liberty is closed for repairs.)
Socrates Sculpture Park is open daily from 10 a.m. to sunset.
9/11 Memorial will be open from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. with the last admission at 7 p.m. (A free, reserved pass is required.)
General Grant National Memorial and Visitors Center will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Museum of Jewish Heritage will be open from 10 a.m to 5:45 p.m.
Jewish Children’s Museum will be open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Discovery’s Times Square Exhibition featuring the Dead Sea Scrolls with the Ten Commandments, and CSI: The Experience exhibitions will open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Museum of Sex - 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. (last ticket sold at 7:15 p.m.)
Madame Tussauds wax museum opens 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Ripley’s Believe It or Not Odditorium is open daily from 9 a.m. to 1 a.m.
Bodies exhibition at the South Street Seaport is open from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Dialog in the Dark at the South Street Seaport is open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Ground Zero Museum Workshop on 14th Street offers tours at noon, 2 and 4 p.m.
Zoos, parks and gardens
Central Park Zoo will be open 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Prospect Park Zoo will be open 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Queens Zoo will be open 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
New York Aquarium - open 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
New York Botanical Garden opens with the Holiday Train Show from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
The High Line will be open regular winter hours, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Jane’s Carousel will be spinning in Brooklyn Bridge Park from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Concerts, shows and comedy gigs
Playbill’s list of Broadway shows on New Year’s Day include “Anything Goes,” “Chicago,” “Chinglish,” “Follies,” “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying,” “Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway,” “Jersey Boys,” “Memphis,” “The Mountaintop,” “On a Clear Day You Can See Forever,” “Other Desert Cities,” “Phantom of the Opera,” “Relatively Speaking,” “Rock of Ages,” “Sister Act,” “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” and “War Horse.”
Off-Broadway shows with Jan. 1 performance times include “Avenue Q,” “Blood and Gifts,” “Blue Man Group,” “Channeling Kevin Spacey,” “The Gazillion Bubble Show,” “NEWSical the Musical,” “Rent,” “Say Goodnight Gracie,” “Sistas: The Musical,” “Sons of the Prophet” and “Stomp.”
TKTS at the South Street Seaport will be open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; the Times Square booth will be open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.; the Brooklyn location will be closed.
Radio City Spectacular will perform at 2 and 5 p.m.
Strauss Symphony of America plays the Salute to Vienna, New Year’s Concert at Lincoln Center at 2:30 p.m
New Edition plays the Paradise Theater in the Bronx at 8 p.m.
New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players stage “The Pirates of Penzance” at Symphony Space at 3 p.m.
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December 29, 2011 1:05 PM Comments (0)
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Free ice cream at Museum of the City of NY
 Starting today, the Museum of the City of New York will give out free ice cream sandwiches to visitors through Jan. 2.
The sandwiches, by Brooklyn-based Blue Marble, will be given out one per person while supplies last.
Current exhibitions at the museum include “The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan, 1811-2011” and “Cecil Beaton: The New York Years.”
The museum is among a dozen in the city that always operate with a suggested admission policy. The museum’s suggested admission is $10.
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December 23, 2011 8:55 AM Comments (0)
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