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Food Pommes Frites Explores Life After Second Avenue Explosion
Golden fries served in a signature paper cone at the original Pommes Frites, which was destroyed in a gas explosion on the Lower East Side last spring. For weeks after the devastating March explosion that destroyed an East Village block, Omer Shorshi kept thinking he had to get to his restaurant. Moments later, Shorshi would…
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Food Carnegie Still Closed and All the Week’s Hottest Dish
Where will all those tourists get their overstuffed sandwiches? Still Out of Gas at the Carnegie Deli Carnegie Deli, which was in April because of an illegal gas line, will stay shuttered at least another few weeks, the New York Times says. “We’re in the process of paying the necessary fines in order to obtain…
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Food The High Cost of a $1 Slice
There might be a high cost for those dollar pizza slices. A class-action lawsuit is charging the Jewish owners of New York City’s with putting employees through 60- to 70-hour workweeks for less than minimum wage and no overtime, the Daily News reported today. Eli and Oren Halali and their father Joshua, who own the…
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Food Beyond the Bagel — The Shuka Truck
Purely for research purposes, you understand, the author sampled both the traditional red shakshuka and the green version, with a sauce of asparagus and spinach. The website for — a recently opened, kosher-certified food truck in New York City — says it opens for business at 9 in the morning. That makes sense. Shakshuka, a…
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Food Scenes From a Foodie Street Fair
A Montreal-style pastrami sandwich from was just one of the many fabulous foods on offer at the Workmen’s Circle’s Taste of Jewish Culture street fair. It was supposed to be a washout. Heavy rain, flooding rain, pouring rain… That’s what I kept hearing, all week long. But the intrepid organizers of The Workmen’s Circle’s Taste…
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Food Dirt Candy’s Bet on Veggies Pays Off
Amanda Cohen, chef-owner of Dirt Candy. (Reuters) – Chef took a gamble in 2008 when she opened a tiny restaurant in New York City called Dirt Candy, which focused on vegetables at a time when bacon was the rage among food enthusiasts. Cohen moved the original 18-seat restaurant to a new location on the Lower…
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Food Cool Jewish Cuisine at Street Fair This Sunday
We loved the Workmen’s Circle Taste of Jewish Culture](https://forward.com/food/202655/nouveau-jewish-food-hits-streets-of-manhattan/ “” “”) street fair last summer, and [this year’s edition looks even richer. Nouveau-Jewish food vendors will descend on New York’s Avenue of the Americas at 46th Street on June 21 — think cool kids like , Black Seed Bagels, Oddfellows Ice Cream, Shelsky’s of Brooklyn,…
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Food Katz’s Deli May Come to Brooklyn and All the Dish
After more than a century on the Lower East Side, is contemplating adding a Brooklyn location? “As I’ve said before to others, this is not confirmed,” owner Jake Dell told the Forward after reports last week about a move across the bridge. “We are considering.” Real-estate bible The Commercial Observer reported that Katz’s had signed…
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