Reubens Are Totally Like Corned Beef and Cabbage, and You Can Find Them at Lots阿斯托里亚:玛莎国家面包店Ditmars霜冻its cupcakes wedding-cake-style (with fondant icing), and they’re open until 1 a.m. on weekends. [NewYorkology] A restaurant called Cellar 34 has opened at 34-02 Broadway, and the New Orleans–bred chef is adding Cajun and creole accents to some of the basic dishes. [Joey in Astoria] Boerum Hill: Lunetta is just one restaurant participating in Dine-In Brooklyn (March 24–31), when restaurants will offer three-course meals for $23. [Zagat Buzz] Brooklyn Heights: Seventy-two-year-old restaurant Armando’s will close after Sunday dinner. [Eater] Midtown East: If a Reuben is as close as you want to get to corned beef and cabbage on Monday, you can find a good one at Patrick Conway’s on East 43rd Street. [Gridskipper] Midwood: This photomontage follows the making of a Di Fara pie; though Domenico’s secret weapon might be revealed by the article’s last line: “And then he’s off to the back room for a shot of grappa (I think that’s what it was), and it’s back to making pies.” [Epi-Log/Epicurious]
Neighborhood Watch
克林顿山（Rosé-Sparkler）品尝；吃蛋糕，而不是晚餐Chelsea: The former Daniele’s Piadina space on 22nd Street east of Sixth Avenue sat empty for two years, but it will reopen as a sandwich shop called Ashby’s on Monday. [Eat for Victory/VV] Clinton Hill: Gnarly Vines is hosting a rosé-sparkler tasting tonight, tomorrow, and Wednesday evening from 6 to 9 p.m., and bottles of those sample selections are 10 percent off. [Clinton Hill Blog] Dumbo: The ‘D’ Space Restaurant at Jay and Front streets serves Indian buffet, but will it raise the bar on local delivery options? [Dumbo NYC] Flatiron: Shaffer City Oyster Bar & Grill will close February 23 and reopen in March as Flatiron Joe’s with cheaper American fare and a jukebox. [Zagat] Fort Greene: In her list of last-minute Valentine’s Day options, Danyelle Freeman recommends Cake Man Raven if you want to “just forget dinner and grab a few whopping slices of the decadent red velvet cake that made this bakery famous.” [Restaurant Girl] Soho: In honor of this romantic week, it’s only right that bananas (and resulting desserts around town) are celebrated for being “not only insanely phallic but also brimming with potassium and B vitamins, which are necessary for keeping your sex drive going.” But you don’t have to tell your date that after deciding to share Blue Ribbon Brasserie’s top-rated banana split. [Gridskipper] West Village: Pig’s-feet and collagen temple Hakata TonTon has been closed by the Department of Health. [Eater]
Neighborhood Watch
Charcuterie继续在UWS上惊叹。啤酒，奶酪和巧克力一起去Chelsea: Cain’s Website is already “pimping” a London opening. [Down by the Hipster] East Village: Jimmy’s No. 43 is hosting a cheese, beer, and chocolate pairing on January 22. Luckily, cheese before beer, you’re in the clear. [Gridskipper] Danal on 10th Street has given up the ghost. [Zagat] Hell’s Kitchen: Tasting World is hosting its first Wine Essentials course of 2008 on January 17. [Tasting World] Midwood: The Amateur Gourmet’s “Best Place I Should’ve Been To Already and Where I Should’ve Already Gone Back To” for 2007: Di Fara Pizza. There are surely too many out there who can relate. Upper West Side: Ed Levine is as wowed by Sylvain Gasdon’s charcuterie at Bar Boulud as we were. [Ed Levine’s New York Eats via Eater] West Village: David Page and Barbara Shinn have left Home to focus on their North Fork winery and have taken the wine-sensitive heart of the restaurant with them. [Eater]
Dom De Marco’s Hands of Steel; Smith’s Opens Tonight in the South VillageAstoria: The Sparrow’s pain perdu dessert is “basically a grilled chocolate croissant with homemade butterscotch syrup on it, with a dollop of real whipped cream on the side.” [Joey in Astoria] Harlem: Doug E.’s Fresh Chicken and Waffles still isn’t ready to open. [Uptown Flavor] Gramercy: Blue Smoke takes top honors in this roundup of the city’s best sweet-potato fries. [Gridskipper] Greenwich Village: Smith’s from this week’s Openings starts serving tonight. [Eater] Midwood: Yes, Dom De Marco’s pies at Di Fara’s are impressive, but what’s really cause for amazement is “his asbestos hands. That man can pull a square pie out of the oven, which must be about 800 degrees, with his bare hands.” [Eat for Victory/VV] Nolita: Public’s butternut-squash soup with spiced marshmallows, crispy chickpeas, and pumpkin-seed oil is just one example in this list of fall dishes showing up all over town. [Restaurant Girl] Prospect-Lefferts-Gardens: Meytex Lounge is now calling itself Meytex Cafe, but their tasty fried chicken hasn’t changed. [Across the Park]
The Orange Line
骑B线：像您不相信的BaklavaSomewhere in the world there may be a train line that covers more gastronomic territory than the B and V subway lines, which start in southernmost Brooklyn and end deep in Queens, but if there is, we don’t know about it. For the next twenty-odd weeks, we’ll be riding the B and V from Coney Island all the way to Forest Hills, jumping off frequently to rave about our favorite restaurants and food stores near the subway.This week: Kings Highway
Openings
Schnitzel Bar Brings Righteous Chicken to MidwoodWe discovered Schnitzi’s Schnitzel Bar on a desolate stretch of Coney Island Avenue in Midwood, Brooklyn, recently, and were amazed that it took us as many weeks as it did. (It’s been open for two months.) Coney Island Avenue is not an easy place in which to hide a big, modern, state-of-the-art schnitzel restaurant; it’s mostly filled with garages, Indo-Pak kebab restaurants, Judaica stores, and halal butchers. Imagine our surprise when we saw that the place, which seems to have sprung up overnight, was turning out some of the tastiest and freshest chicken-cutlet sandwiches in town.
Neighborhood Watch
Ramen Rivalry About to Boil Over in the East Village?阿斯托里亚（Astoria）：所有品脱的拉古尼塔斯啤酒（Lagunitas Beer）今晚将在第35街35号大街的防晒霜上售价4美元。酒吧食品也很好。[阿斯托里亚的乔伊]克林顿山：不要为大街附近列克星敦大道上的那个花哨的新有机市场感到兴奋；这是史蒂夫·马丁·弗里克（Steve Martin Flick）的一部分。[Clinton Hill博客]东村：Momofuku回应了Setagaya的说法，即它的拉面更为真实……[Eather]，这家总部位于东京的连锁店已经吸引了大量的食客，并给他们留下了深刻的印象。[for Victory/vv]周日绿色市场现在有一个汉普顿的鱼贩。[哥tham手]哈林（Harlem）：男子渔民已经扩展到第125街，而不是从太空中驱逐木瓜之王，而是选择分享它。[Uptown味道] McCarren Park：Jellynyc的夏季泳池派对本周末以Dodgeball，Slip'N Slide，Brooklyn Beer和Grilled Grub（我们有视频）开始了该系列赛。[hipster] Midwood：Difara再次启动并运行。[SLICE] PARK SLOPE：联合市场将将其新鲜农产品带到第七大道的长期店面，但人们担心附近的夫妻杂货店。 [The Brooklyn Paper] Ridgewood: Butcher Karl Ehmer inspired such love of meat in a young girl that she now sells meat-inspired pillows to “hipsters, artists and Western Europeans.” [The Food Section]
Neighborhood Watch
Shopsin的新东侧泊位终于到达切尔西：Richie Akiva和Scott Sartiano不会将旧格子空间用于下一个俱乐部；1oak（其中一种）现在在第九至第十位之间定居第17位。[hipster]克莱·布拉瑟里（Klee Brasserie）将在本周日免费发放其新的桃子桑格利亚汽酒（Peach Sangia），以马克·盖伊（Mark Gay Pride Day）。[NYS]下东区：Shopsin终于在埃塞克斯街市场开业。[Eater] Midwood：明天的Difara开放？不，但是“也许是星期五”。[失落的城市]上东区：最近离开的Jovia的所有者将为联排别墅的空间带来更随意的感觉，名字和菜单让人想起所有者的Soho餐厅Zoë。[NYT]西村：杰斐逊市场（Jefferson Market）拥有从加利福尼亚州新进口的Choctál的单一巧克力冰淇淋。[NYT]
Union Square to Host Top Chef Cook-off Tomorrow哈林：恳求出去确定在第125街的那个五颜六色的“外观”的法兰克福（Frankfurter）。当地人担心这只是错误的木瓜。[哈林风味]诺丽塔（Nolita）：总部位于巴塞罗那的Hard-Candy Maker Papabubble计划今年夏天开设第一家纽约商店。[hipster]前景 - 莱弗特花园：华盛顿大道上加勒比甜美的手开口，可能是一家roti商店，可能会出售婴儿。[在公园对面]罗斯福岛：罗斯福岛的运营公司拍打餐厅，繁文tape节只剩下两个。[NYC NOSH]联合广场：为了启动新的顶级厨师赛季，该节目将在伊兰·霍尔（Ilan Hall）和山姆·塔尔伯特（Sam Talbot）之间进行大型户外比赛，从中午到下午1:30。[Grub Street]
Neighborhood Watch
Midwood Facing a Second DiFara Crisis As Health Department RevisitsEast Village: Plans for the Bowery Hotel’s subterranean Japanese restaurant get scrapped for a spa. [Down by the Hipster] Drown your sorrows (or pickup takeout sushi) and head to Astor Wines for over 50 varieties of shochu, the Japanese alcohol that “goes down easy.” [Gridskipper] Fort Greene: The first South African restaurant in the United States, Madiba, has just been closed by the Department of Health. [VV] Long Island City: Junior’s Cheesecake and Harry’s Water Taxi Beach are among the participants in tomorrow night’s Taste of LIC to support the Chocolate Factory’s arts programs. [The Chocolate Factory] Midtown West: Starwood’s new (opening in 2010) green hotel overlooking Bryant Park will feature restaurants by Stephen Hanson. [Gothamist] Midwood: DiFara closed by the Department of Health for the second time since March. Dom, please just wear the hat. [Eater]
