Eats

The Grave Dancer of LIC & Rincon Melania

November 4, 2019 by editor 1 Comment

THE vaunted Financial Times profiled Long Island City resident and unicorn founder Amol Sarva last week, checking in to see how he was doing post WeWork debacle. “Quite well tyvm, we’re nothing like WeWork” to sum it up. Followed by some bullet points as to why his company Knotel is not, a short paragraph as to how the idea for the company came about, some personal history and a few not-so-outlandish founder quirks. Oh, and a lot of schadenfreude including his wearing a sweatshirt with the words “Grave Dancer” on it.

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HuPo, A Szechuan Restaurant in Long Island City, Has Opened

October 21, 2019 by editor Leave a Comment

Hupo in Long Island City — In the back room

In the back room (in the back room)
In the back room (in the back room)
I waited for you (waited for you)
Ya waited for me (waited for me)

Hupo, aka Hu Po, has opened at 10-07 5oth Avenue in Long Island City per The Court Square Blog. The Szechuan Restaurant had a soft opening last week and is only doing take-out and in-house dining, no delivery for the time being.

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Bellwether, Blend Best, Skyline Tops

October 16, 2019 by editor Leave a Comment

I gave you a brand-new Ford
You said I want a Cadillac
I bought you a ten dollar dinner
You said thanks for the snack

I just saw ‘Freestyle Love Supreme’ on Broadway and really wanted to create a freestyle rap tying together all of today’s disparate local news stories. Unfortunately I quickly discovered I’m as bad at rapping as I am at writing. So I’ll fallback on snark and hone in on critiquing a listicle that’s equally, umm, not good.

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How Shih Lee and Shi Restaurant Came to LIC, And Never Left

October 10, 2019 by editor 2 Comments

Shih Lee Long Island City — Shih Lee & Hunter, as in…

Though it is wildly successful now, the story of Shi Restaurant on Center Boulevard in Long Island City exemplifies the humble origins, lengthy struggles, and risk-it-all mentality of many entrepreneurs in this country. Let’s start at the beginning.

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Chinese Restaurant ‘Hana Noodle Station’ Coming to Long Island City

October 3, 2019 by editor 5 Comments

Omne trium perfectum

A new Chinese restaurant called “Hana Noodle Station” is coming to 10-39 47th Road in Long Island City according to The Court Square Blog. It will be located in the former home of Korean eatery Green Street, which closed last year. Hana Noodle has been operating a stall for the past two years or so out of the DeKalb Market Place in Brooklyn. Eater’s Robert Sietsema had very positive things to say about it’s signature Lanzhou Beef Noodle Soup and Google reviews were mainly favorable. This will be the third Chinese restaurant to open in Hunters Point since the summer, after a lengthy drought of there being zero. Don’t let anyone tell you that bad news come in three’s.