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ON the heels of Sweet Chick’s closing in LIC, comes news that Blend on Vernon Boulevard has also closed, and that Tuk Tuk is struggling and debating whether to continue after this month.
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250th Anniversary of this nation notwithstanding, there will be no Macy’s Fireworks for Long Island City in 2026. While there will be two sets of barges, they are centered around the Seaport and The Statue of Liberty/Jersey City. Thus, they will not be visible from here for the third year in a row.
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‘BIG Time’ is how I would describe the earth-shattering news that Meju, hidden on a quiet street in Long Island City, received the #4 spot in the New York Times ‘100 Best Restaurants in New York City’ for 2026. How big? That’s one notch higher than Jean-Georges. Jean-George!!!
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Putting the Mets opener and Johnnies basketball aside, restaurants and real estate dominate the local news in the back half of March (as they always do). Rice Thief has been given two stars by The New York Times in a review this week. Located in Dutch Kills and opened in Spring 2024, The Times lauds the restaurant’s Ganjang gejang, Hokkaido scallops, and Abalone, and notes “here we are in a chill Queens restaurant, where patrons in baseball caps make seaweed rice wraps with sauce-stained fingers.”
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BACK in the 20th Century, man had to hunt to find food. Upstate graduates shared insider knowledge of where to find the mighty Buffalo… wings, in New York City. In the late 80’s it was Aeillo’s Pizza on lower 2nd Avenue (28th St. if memory serves me). Come the early 90’s it was the Entourage Sports Cafe on the Upper East Side – back when not only chicken wings were rare in NYC, but sports bars were a novelty too. And then, in a burst of light, a supernova if you will, came the chicken wing explosion of the mid-90’s: Atomic, Blondie’s, Fat Guys, the heyday of the regional chicken wing mini-chain. Where local fry-cooks were the Batali’s and Bourdain’s of their era. Or at least received minimum plus $2. As you may very well ascertain from this intro, The Editor majored in Chicken Wing History in college.
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