The new Kellogg Diner is scary as hell.
Slice reports on an August opening of a new Williamsburg pizza joint: “Nicola Bertolotti…will be opening his own place in Williamsburg in mid August…Fornaccio will make Neapolitan-style pizzas there, and the oven will be wood-fired…The space is on Havemeyer between North 6th and North 7th streets, not more than a pizza-brick’s throw away from Fornino, where Bertolotti once worked under chef-owner Michael Ayoub.”
“ Also last week Marco Pierre White came into Diner for cheeseburger. He then canceled his order, torn hundred dollar bill in half and threw half of it at the bartender and walked out. I guess he’s got a reputation to keep up for being crazier than a shithouse rat.
Tom Mylan
Taste of Williamsburg
The L Magazine has announced they are throwing their First Annual Block Party in the McCarren Park Pool on Tuesday July 8th. They’ll have music, beer, a Taste of Williamsburg from restaurants including Diner, Marlowe & Sons, and Fette Sau, and a screening of Wet Hot American Summer, introduced by Michael Showalter himself.
“ TONY has the inside track on the opening of B&B. Here’s the lowdown: “The name conjures a country inn, but it’s a speakeasy vibe that pervades this Williamsburg eatery. Chef-owner Coby Farro (The Tasting Room, Spotted Pig) offers gastropub-inspired plates like mac and cheese tossed with crispy boar’s ear.” Status: Unknown. Phone number goes to blank message. 109 S. 6th Street, Williamsburg; 718-782-2333.
Eater
New Williamsburg Cafe
Sunny Bang is bringing his considerable pedigree to Williamsburg. The young chef, who cooked for years under Tom Colicchio at Craft, Sam DeMarco at Fireside, and Kerry Heffernan at South Gate, will open the New Williamsburg Café on Wythe Street in Williamsburg. Bang describes his culinary roots as “contemporary American fine dining,” and he plans to use many local ingredients while “trying to keep all the entrées under $25.”
The restaurant has two large wood-burning ovens leftover from its former life as Moishe’s bakery. One will be devoted to pastry, pies, and fresh baked breads (“I’m from Texas, so I’m thinking jalapeño cornbread”), and the other one will go for “Sunday dinner”–type proteins like whole chickens and piglets big primal cuts whose aroma will suffuse the restaurant. The New Williamsburg Café will open up July 4 weekend, but neighbors may want to drift by a few days prior to that. Bang says the atmosphere will be very cook-centric. “I want it to be a cooks’ forum,” he says.
The New Williamsburg Café, 170 Wythe St., at N. 7th St.; no phone yet.
“ WILLIAMSBURG— One too many perverts have been groping the barstaff at Williamsburg’s Radegast Beer Hall. According to TONY they are changing the uniforms so the cocktail waitresses don’t look like busty trollops: “We brought in professionals from Czechoslovakia to design something different—a compromise between what the uniform once was and what it is now. We’ll debut it in about four weeks.” [The Feed]
I had a Huevos Rancheros there (yeah i wondered why it was on a french menu so i ordered it). It was the worst thing i’ve ever eaten.
I just randomly came across this picture…that appears to be at Williamsburg’s Bonita.