#Worker shortage further hurting NYC restaurants

#Worker shortage further hurting NYC restaurants

“#Worker shortage further hurting NYC restaurants” Big Apple restaurants can only serve half their pre-pandemic indoor capacity — and yet they still don’t have enough help to make it work. Eateries are getting crushed by a shortage of workers both in kitchens and on the floor despite sky high unemployment and a growing vaccination effort….

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#When will these iconic NYC restaurants reopen their doors?

#When will these iconic NYC restaurants reopen their doors?

“#When will these iconic NYC restaurants reopen their doors?” Many of the city’s most popular restaurants have reopened for indoor dining at 50 percent capacity, but the magic has yet to reach some wonderful and/or iconic places that remain depressingly dark inside and out. Certain famed eateries say they can’t afford to open until full…

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#5 of Anthony Bourdain’s favorite hidden NYC restaurants

#5 of Anthony Bourdain’s favorite hidden NYC restaurants

“#5 of Anthony Bourdain’s favorite hidden NYC restaurants” Anthony Bourdain was many things: a chef, a writer, a traveler. But his star shined the brightest when it came to eating. The prolific foodie died by suicide in 2018 at age 61, but his new posthumous book, “World Travel: An Irreverent Guide,” (Ecco) comes out Tuesday….

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#Inside Daniel Boulud’s new restaurant Le Pavillion

#Inside Daniel Boulud’s new restaurant Le Pavillion

“#Inside Daniel Boulud’s new restaurant Le Pavillion” On Saturday, the city closed a swath of East 42nd Street because chef Daniel Boulud’s newest project, Le Pavillon, was expecting an unusual delivery: 10,000 pounds of black olive trees trucked in from Florida. A massive crane hoisted the 20-foot-tall trees to a group of workers perched on a…

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#La Noxe speakeasy is hidden inside an NYC subway station

#La Noxe speakeasy is hidden inside an NYC subway station

“#La Noxe speakeasy is hidden inside an NYC subway station” To find NYC’s most exclusive new watering hole, you’ll need to head underground.  Cocktail lounge La Noxe is now open to the public — if the public can find it, let alone get past the 1,500-person waitlist. The 600-square-foot speakeasy is tucked behind a discreet…

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#Andrew Cuomo extends no-alcohol-without-food rule

#Andrew Cuomo extends no-alcohol-without-food rule

“#Andrew Cuomo extends no-alcohol-without-food rule” Gov. Andrew Cuomo isn’t letting a nursing-home scandal and multiple allegations of sexual misconduct stop him from showing New Yorkers what arbitrary, power-hungry “leadership” looks like: He’s extending his no-alcohol-without-food rule through May 6. His aides suggest it’s a bone to the restaurant industry that his lockdown orders have devastated….

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#Ketchup reportedly suffering from latest COVID-era shortage

#Ketchup reportedly suffering from latest COVID-era shortage

“#Ketchup reportedly suffering from latest COVID-era shortage” The coronavirus pandemic has sparked a nationwide ketchup shortage that has restaurants scrambling to get ahold of America’s most popular condiment, a new report says. In especially short supply are ketchup packets, a hot commodity for eateries that have relied on takeout orders over the past year as…

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#Manhattan restaurants on the rebound following pandemic lows

#Manhattan restaurants on the rebound following pandemic lows

“#Manhattan restaurants on the rebound following pandemic lows” More than a year after the coronavirus lockdowns slammed the Big Apple, life appears to be returning to parts of Manhattan, which is helping the island’s struggling restaurant industry bounce back.  While areas dominated by office towers continue to struggle, people are returning in droves to residential…

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#Dagon is the best new NYC restaurant of the pandemic

#Dagon is the best new NYC restaurant of the pandemic

“#Dagon is the best new NYC restaurant of the pandemic” Dagon is the city’s best new restaurant to arise out of the pandemic and my favorite new Upper West Side place since the millennium. A kaleidoscopic whirl through modern Israeli cuisine, where hummus and falafel meet the pungent pleasures of the Arab Middle East and North…

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