We just got word of this Mon-Fri 5:30-7:30pm Happy Hour ‘Recession Special’ at Ono at Hotel Gansevoort.  At the O-Bar and Cocktail Lounge all of the following items will be $7 — Sushi Rolls, Red + White Wine, Sake, Beer, Specialty Cocktails and Martinis. Not bad! Tweet this!

The review is out. Bruni has revisited Daniel for the NYTimes, this time after the restaurant’s massive (and massively expensive) makeover. He begins, “If you haven’t dined at Daniel in the last four and a half months, you haven’t dined at Daniel.” And the best news is that there is perhaps no better time to [...]

According to this January 19th post on CraigsList, Momofuku Ko is looking to hire a Chef de Partie, aka a “station cook” or “line chef.” We wonder if applicants get a tasting as part of the interview process. If so, we may just apply for the sheer hell of it. Tweet this!

We just got news that Cooperstown, NY brewer Ommegang has unveiled a special Obama Beer to commemorate today’s inauguration. You can try Ommegang’s Obamagang tonight at NYC beer bars Hop Devil Grill and David Copperfield’s. According to BeerMenus you can also get your Obamagang (6.2% abv) fix at Puck Fair and Rattle ‘n’ Hum. Brooklyn-based brewer Sixpoint Craft Ales [...]

Title: Recession Wine Special @ SavorNY Location: Clinton b/t Rivington & Stanton Description: This is a terrific wine deal. Head over to SavorNY for dinner this Monday the 20th through Thursday the 23rd and pay for 2 glasses of wine and they will give you the entire bottle…and you can do this for up to [...]

First it was a slew of “Recession Specials“, then it was the migration from a “Restaurant Week” to a “Restaurant Year,” now it appears the latest move by high-end restaurants and restaurateurs to adapt to these ever-worsening economic conditions is to soften their BYO policy. It is certainly true that restaurants with expensive and extensive [...]

You may already know by now that The Sunburnt Cow in the way East Village is one of Jill and my favorite all-you-can-drink Sunday Fun-Day brunch spots in the city. We just got an email from Team Sunburnt Cow-Bondi Road that there will be huge parties at both restaurants next Monday in celebration of Australia Day. Also [...]

We received an email over the weekend that the owners of Chinatown Brasserie have agreed to give diners a choice of a glass of wine in place of the dessert course, with the purchase of a glass of wine, a deal that we’re calling the “Substitution Special.” Here’s how it works: instead of choosing a dessert [...]

Hats off to Cafe des Artistes! Not only are they offering Restaurant Week all year long, they sent us a response email this morning saying that our proposal to see if any restaurants would substitute a glass of wine for the dessert course is “a great idea!” and “that they would love to do it….”  We are trying [...]

We received another response to our request sent out yesterday to see which restaurants participating in Restaurant Week would be willing to provide some alternative to diners who do not typically eat a dessert course. As if Terrance Brennan’s Artisanal didn’t announce enough good stuff yesterday (click here to see Grub Street’s report that Artisanal [...]

Tired of going to dozens and dozens of individual restaurant websites to see who’s offering what on their Restaurant Week menu? While the official Restaurant Week website does make available menus for about 80 of the participating restaurants here, there are more than 250 restaurants participating this year. As the start of RW draws nearer, [...]

We just received an email from Patina Restaurant Group (Brasserie, Brasserie 8 1/2, Nick & Stef’s, Cafe Centro, Naples 45, The Sea Grill, etc) in response to our complaint from earlier that the dessert course makes Restaurant Week deals less sweet. Here it is: Just read your piece about the problems with Restaurant Week and agree. [...]

The 2-weeks of ‘Winter Restaurant Week’ kick off this Sunday, the 18th. Top restaurants all over the city will be serving up 3-course lunches and dinners for $24.07 and $35, respectively. In the past, the deal was only good on weekedays and some of the top-tier restaurants refused to participate, but this year, thanks to the economy, NYC Restaurant Week has [...]

No, we haven’t been to any of the Smorgas Chef’s in the city…but we seem to come across these Scandinavian-themed restaurants wherever we go. There’s one near us in Midtown, another one in the heart of the W. Village, one in the FiDi on Stone Street and another on Park Avenue b/t 37th and 38th. There’s [...]

We got a bit nervous yesterday when we read on Grub Street that “Kuma Inn got a thumbs-up for a new license (good-bye, BYO!)”  and on Eater that Kuma Inn got approved “for a new license separate from the one they’ve apparently been sharing with a restaurant downstairs.” We reached out to Kuma Inn earlier today to [...]