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LONG ISLAND CITY 2015 RESTAURANT ROUND-UP

January 13, 2015 by editor 6 Comments

Brooklyn comes to Queens to dine — Between Mu Ramen and Trattoria L’incontro, the crowds are coming from all over to dine in LIC

Wow, what changes in a year. More pizza, more burgers, ramen fever, Peruvian, Japanese, and a Michelin star! The local dining scene feels more like Manhattan every day. Nevertheless, I’ve hopped aboard the latest fad, the Bushwick baby-food diet. Picture it: men with beards and $800 boots eating jars of baby food with baby spoons. Brooklyn has seven of these restaurants already, one with a $120 tasting menu! I hear Jean Georges is scouting locations to open the first one in Tribeca, and Chipotle has fired up its test kitchens to bring it to the masses. For now though, here’s the Long Island City 2015 Restaurant Round-up. Bon Appetit! [Read more…] about LONG ISLAND CITY 2015 RESTAURANT ROUND-UP

CONLEY SUDDENLY RESIGNS AND MU RAMEN HAS LONG LINES

December 4, 2014 by editor Leave a Comment

Pre-Joe Conley Dwelling in Hunters Point. There was no ramen back then either.

A double headline, one surprising, one anything but. The news of Joe Conley’s resignation from Community Board 2 after 23 years, was unexpected and sudden. Under normal circumstances, a reign of that duration usually ends with months of boozy goodbye celebrations at night, replete with cigars and backslapping. Followed by hungover days ferrying around to local public schools and senior citizen centers to pick up newly contrived award plaques. There’s also usually a handpicked and groomed successor. Unless there’s a big scandal, in which case [Read more…] about CONLEY SUDDENLY RESIGNS AND MU RAMEN HAS LONG LINES

MU RAMEN LIC TO OPEN MONDAY, THE TURKEY HAS ASCENDED

November 25, 2014 by editor 6 Comments

The soup ascends from the river — The soupy froth ascends from the river

A year and four days ago, LICtalk declared that Ramen Fever Had Come to LIC. It was a prescient headline from a haughty but highly-respected rag, and today it has come full circle, [Read more…] about MU RAMEN LIC TO OPEN MONDAY, THE TURKEY HAS ASCENDED

NEW SUPERMARKET SET TO OPEN TOMORROW IN HUNTERS POINT

November 13, 2014 by editor Leave a Comment

The end of Autumn is near... — The end of Autumn is near…

Urban Market will open tomorrow. Located in Gantry Park Landing on 50th Avenue by the water, the 8,000 square foot store will feature, well, …all those items that supermarkets in upscale neighborhoods do in 2014. You can read the the story below for the details, of greater interest was [Read more…] about NEW SUPERMARKET SET TO OPEN TOMORROW IN HUNTERS POINT

HAVE NO FEAR, HALLOWEEN IS NEAR

October 22, 2014 by editor 3 Comments

Dining Scene? You can also cook at home with fresh vegetables from the stand at LIC Flea — Dining scene? You can also cook at home with fresh vegetables from the stand at LIC Flea, and get a pumpkin.

“Enjoy every sandwich” Warren Zevon ((Letterman asked Zevon if his condition (terminal cancer) had taught him anything about life and death. ”How much you’re supposed to enjoy every sandwich,” Zevon answered.

Weeks later, Letterman was still struck by the reply. ”Here’s a guy looking right down the barrel of the gun,” he said. ”And if a guy wanted to indulge himself in great hyperbole in that circumstance, who wouldn’t forgive him? But that was perfect, the simplicity of that. If this guy is not a poet, who is?”))

So the news desk has been getting a lot of queries from new LIC mothers regarding trick-or-treating and other local Halloween events for kids. Fear not, because as veteran parents in the neighborhood know, everything is rolled up into one during the Annual Kids Halloween Parade along Vernon Boulevard. Where/when/how will it occur? [Read more…] about HAVE NO FEAR, HALLOWEEN IS NEAR