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MAN has been cooking with wood for over a million years. Beginning next week the people of Long Island City will be able to get pizza cooked on wood for the very first time when Piatto LIC opens on October 23. That’s right, pizza cooked on wood! In LIC!! Alla-buon’ora! In addition the dinner menu includes items such as charred octopus, fire-roasted prawns, [Read more…] about PIATTO WOOD FIRE PIZZA TO OPEN OCTOBER 23 IN LIC
EPHARISTO, epharisto, epharisto, Vernon Grille in Hunters Point will open on October 11 according to its owner. A look [Read more…] about VERNON GRILLE TO OPEN OCTOBER 11
Upon reading in The Court Square Blog that yet another artisanal pizza restaurant named Luzzo’s will be opening in Court Square not too far away from the newly opened Levante’s – whose owners were at one time in partnership with those of Luzzo’s, I pondered ‘What non-pizza restaurants are on the horizon locally?’ [Read more…] about FALL RESTAURANT UPDATES IN LONG ISLAND CITY
The Smooklers are expanding their culinary empire by taking over the former Alobar space and renaming it Ravenswood Tavern according to Eater. The menu will have more in common with the prior occupant than Mu Ramen, with chef Joshua Smookler creating [Read more…] about MU RAMEN OWNER TO TAKE ALOBAR & RENAME RAVENSWOOD TAVERN
SO, The New York Times released a hatchet job on Mayor de Blasio and his supposed tinkering on behalf of the Water’s Edge restaurant. While I’m not overly interested in the he said/she said of it all, I did enjoy the follow-up article that delved into greater detail about the restaurant’s history, dating back to 1980. Equally intriguing from a historical culinary standpoint was the link to the NYT restaurant review by Bryan Miller in 1992, which like all the paper’s restaurant reviews back then were categorized under ‘Arts.’
As most readers already know, what does interest me in regards to the Water’s Edge, is the future of it. Today’s NYT ode to the Water’s Edge reiterates in equally vague terms as I did last month that the “agency [EDC] will soon select the developer.” Hopefully there will be no meddling from above and the one they select will be based on the objective criteria that best suits Long Island City.
//RESTAURANT news is aplenty, or maybe not as seen in the stories below. Pulling one nugget, [Read more…] about ODE TO WATER’S EDGE AND WHAT LIES AHEAD?