"I want to work with anyone who is doing good," says chef Jehangir Mehta of Graffiti Earth, his restaurant opening tonight in the Duane Street Hotel. "Good is a relative term, of course, but this is how I see it." / 5 comments
Coming up at Brookfield Place. Plus: Graffiti Earth restaurant opening pushed back a week; Soho home decor store Aero is moving uptown; pedestrian passageways at construction sites; Miss Paradis lounge. / 2 comments
Plus: Duane Street Hotel's revamped façade; 443 Greenwich partly revealed; rowing for heart health at Current; Pirch and Planet Blue opening on Lafayette in Soho; half-converted Broadway building put on the market.
After a period of apparent dormancy, Jehangir Mehta's restaurant in the Duane Street Hotel, Mehtaphor, is being reborn—but probably not as Mehtaphor. / 1 comment
Plus: The Craigslist satirist strikes again; excellent masks at Philip Williams Posters; a Ferrari for your kid; "Scareicature" report; a diminished Mehtaphor; Quiznos is open again; "haunted bathhouse" party. / 2 comments
Plus: Fiddling with W. Broadway traffic light; Shensai Parsi New Year dinner; 376 Broadway mystery; Hotel Particulier event.
To celebrate their new iPhone app, the folks at Find. Eat. Drink. came up with a rundown of eight local chefs' favorite non-local restaurants.
Plus: Bikes in City Hall Park; Backyard Chicken goes kaput; Jehangir Mehta on "The Next Iron Chef"; swimming in the Hudson. / 6 comments
Plus: Chipotle reopen; Seamless, Sarabeth's Tribeca, and Mehtaphor; 11 N. Moore. / 4 comments
Mehtaphor chef Jehangir Mehta talks about how life here is different than in India, where he grew up: “There’s a lot more choice here since the wealth is spread over more people. Bombay might only have one Broadway show to New York’s twenty.” It’s the latest Q&A in Anojja Shah’s “I → NY” series. / 1 comment
At Taste of Tribeca, the food is good, the crowd is fun, and some of the chefs will be recognizable from TV. Plus: Who's new this year—Locanda Verde, Weather Up, Sarabeth's, and more. / 4 comments
A preview of what to expect at Taste of Tribeca on May 21. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go take a nap. [Updated with better photos.]
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