New York magazine's Grub Street, heretofore a NYC-based food- and restaurant blog, has expanded to five cities: Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. It's less an expansion than a rebranding—New York Magazine Holdings LLC bought MenuPages last year, along with the various city-based blogs that MenuPages published. Grubstreet.com promises to be a homepage for news produced among all those city sites. Refresher course: The Wall Street Journal covered the launch here last week....
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New York magazine had the liberal commentator kept a journal of what he ate from August 16 to 21. Sure, Colmes may claim to like steak, but on August 18, he admits, "For lunch I had a very small salad at a place near Fox called Evergreen, on 47th Street and Sixth Avenue." No word on whether it was one of those fancy, exotic arugula salads that liberal elitists like Colmes love so much....
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Promoting his new cable cooking show Hungry, Steve Schirripa (Bobby Bacala of The Sopranos) on food trends: What do you think of so-called molecular gastronomy? I don’t want my food cooked with the same tools that they fix my car....
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Grub Street helpfully reports that Next Iron Chef winner Michael Symon and New York City chef Michael Psilakis are not the same person....
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My advice would be not to eat at the airport, but if you have to, Grub Street has some great suggestions....
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New York magazine's foodblog Grub Street interviews Papaya King Alexander Poulus, who name drops his celebrity clientele: Papaya King Originally uploaded to Flickr by trudence. Woody Allen is a frequent customer. Tony Roberts. Eliot Spitzer and Mark Green. Charlie Rangel comes in here very frequently. Ex-President Clinton came here shortly after he moved into Harlem. It was about 9:15, so there was no one else in the store, just one other customer. He stayed for three or four minutes. Martha Stewart comes in; she loves our franks. With a net worth of $970 million, Ms. Stewart could afford 541,899,441 original dogs (priced at $1.79)....
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