Read about Cut in the Tribeca Citizen Restaurant Guide.
A list (in progress) of the restaurants delivering or providing takeout menus, including some creative solutions. And a reminder that a gift card purchase can help. / 19 comments
Plus: The De Blasio administration has jacked up commercial real estate taxes (and an acclaimed West Village restaurant is closing partly as a result); Cut has Sunday brunch and a lunch deal; when Broadway was Typewriter Row; East River Esplanade logjam cleared.
Plus: How New York Dolls was spared the wrecking ball; the New York Times reviews Cut; Summons Court is now in the Municipal Building; opening forecast for Humble Fish poke restaurant. / 7 comments
Plus: Tribecan digs through garbage for lost wedding rings; rough Cut review; more on the cat rescuer; the new name for Sway lounge; lots of thefts; state senator Daniel Squadron on how to get involved.
Almost every other new restaurant in recent years has gone for the hand-crafted, artisanal aesthetic, but this outpost of the Cut chain is far more Vegas than Brooklyn. / 5 comments
Plus: Profile of architect Thierry Despont; parking lot owner refuses to let school block street for recess; another World Trade Center mall tenant gets sued for bailing; the history of 176 Franklin, where Riverrun was; city to sell lovely old Centre Street building to developer who can demolish it; Saks aims to be like a website; Cut's chef and art. / 5 comments
Plus: Cut restaurant at the Four Seasons is open (spa to follow next month); noisy event on Broadway yesterday; Tracy Anderson's new studio opens this week; do delivery-only restaurants get health grades? / 7 comments
Tom Colicchio's Fowler & Wells at the Beekman, Cut by Wolfgang Puck at the Four Seasons, and Harold's Meat & Three at the Arlo. Plus: Pug meet-up; "that kind of bitch"; Pearl Street mishmash; why is Federal Plaza's main entrance closed? / 3 comments
Plus: Long line at the Apple store; "The Blacklist" shoot; World Trade Center wine store looks close to opening; hotel lobby to be café and lounge; how did Cut at the Four Seasons get around the 200-foot rule? / 1 comment
Plus: The State Liquor Authority hearing about Buddha Bar; Dîner en Blanc was in Wagner Park last night; Mmuseumm is throwing a birthday party for a Japanese inventor; "Law & Order: SVU." / 1 comment
Plus: Harrison at Whole Foods was delighted by the warm response; 111 Murray is going up very quickly; Wolfgang Puck's Cut unveiled; Front Art Space closed its tiny street-level gallery; author Gayle Forman.
Plus: When there was a police station on Leonard; man attacked by stranger wielding a baseball bat; why chefs like to open hotel restaurants; water main break; the wine at iPic. / 1 comment
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