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Thursday, March 3, 2011

'Top Chef' Recap | Jamie Oliver's Supersize Food Truck

THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 2011

Daily New York Food News from NYMag.com & MenuPages.com
The James Weird Awards

The James Weird Awards: Iguana Tamales, Druggy Pizza, and Violated Chicken

Plus: slippery banana peels and teary barbecue sauce, all in this week's roundup of weird restaurant news.

Expansions

Phoebe Cates Designed Sfoglia’s New Private Dining Room

And you can purchase the furnishings she used.

Chef Shuffle

Camille Becerra Checks Into Hotel Chantelle

The 'Top Chef' lands on her feet after a falling out with APL.

The Other Critics

Saveur and Saran Clash Over Sifton’s Fishtag Review

A publisher on the chef's side and a chef on the critic's side? Now this is different.

Truckin'

Jamie Oliver Rolls Out the Mother of All Food Trucks

Eight kitchen stations and an inflatable band shell!

Freak-outs

Frosting Freak-out: Woman Blows Her Top After Being Denied Cupcake

Plus: video of a woman doing $2,000 worth of damage to a liquor store.

Sucking Ash

Gourmet Wonders What the Big Deal Is With a Quick After-Dinner Smoke

Just take one drag, man.

Marketing Gimmicks

The Automat Makes a Comeback, But Only for Eight Hours

Automatic for the people! Free snacks from an automat in Grand Central.

Overnights

Top Chef Recap: He Flicks His Boogers on Me

Guess which two cheftestants are related!

Mediavore

Actor Chazz Palminteri Plans Chazz: A Bronx Original Restaurant; Americans Fatter Than Even Canadians

Plus: bizarro restaurants around the world, global food prices broke records in February, and more, in our morning news roundup.

Neighborhood Watch

Worth Kitchen to Pop Up in Soho; the National Serves SOBE Burger in Midtown

Plus: Joey Campanaro and his brother celebrate their childhood, Desmond's opens, and more, in our daily roundup of neighborhood news.

Marketing Gimmicks

Yup, Charlie Sheen’s Tiger Blood Is Now Being Served

It took this long?

Now Delivering

Tribeca’s Haves; Brooklyn’s Have-Nots

Whole Foods launches a personal-shopping and delivery service while Brooklyn maps its food deserts.

What to Eat

Pączki Fly Into Peter Pan Bakery Tomorrow

Polish doughnuts, coming up.

Comebacks

Bagatelle and Its Boozy Brunches to Live Again

Remi Laba and Aymeric Clemente will reopen their clubby St. Tropez concept somewhere below 14th Street, sometime in the fall.

Openings

Lamazou Readies Bistro for Later This Month

The longtime cheese and sandwich destination will soon open a “fun and vivacious” restaurant.

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