Jai reropens - with a different chef
Good news/bad news: A discerning Reader reader has e-mailed to say that Jay has reopened for the summer theater season. The bad news is, she ate there, and the creative, exacting previous chef is no longer present. The food, she …
Vegan Extravaganza at El Biz 7/16
I'll just pretty much reprint the press release. You all know that El Biz is great, right? So here's the chance for vegans to dig in: A Vegan Dining Odyssey All you need is a team of gourmands like ours— …
Food and Politics - The Oil Spill and You (A Rant)
A few weeks ago I got a pretty snippy message on the food website telling me to keep my nose out of politics and stick to telling readers where to eat or not. I might have answered, "Well, why don't …
new chef at Blanca - hot hot hot!
I think I mentioned this at the end of a review, but Blanca got a new chef, Gavin Schmitt, to replace the fled New York hotshot who got away. The new one's a hotshot too, great credentials. I'll quote directly …
The runaway restaurateur
Restaurateur Philippe Beltran, having run away from La Vache and Voyage and then Vagabond, has now run away from his greatest runaway success, Bleu Boheme. (Just before the recession struck, he had plans to expand with two more restaurants, but …