I Love Velvet's Mobile Payment System Merges into Micros at Nespresso Cafe in ... MarketWatch (press release) NEW YORK, Feb 06, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- I Love Velvet's first entry into the US hospitality industry took place this week as the mobile solutions company installed a customized mobile restaurant software that encompasses both point-of-sale payment ...
A Cabaret Plumbs History to Write Its Own Plotline New York Times But the ghosts of the celebrities who danced at Studio 54, the renowned late-'70s New York nightspot, will get some company this spring with the opening of a new nightclub and restaurant called 54 Below, located downstairs from the former club on West ...
Trotter to receive Beard's humanitarian award Chicago Sun-Times On Monday, May 7, 2012, the James Beard Foundation Awards Ceremony and Gala Reception will take place at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall in New York City, during which the Restaurant and Chef and Restaurant Design and Graphics awards will be handed ...
JBF's 2012 Humanitarian Award Goes to Charlie Trotter Eater National The James Beard Awards will be presented at Lincoln Center in New York on May 7; the nominees apart from Trotter and 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Wolfgang Puck will be announced March 19. Here's the press release: New York, NY (February 6, ...
What We're Reading New York Times (blog) Julia Moskin The New York Times: Just as the Algonquin Hotel's Oak Room calls it quits in May, another cabaret and restaurant will be preparing to open in June. Called 54 Below, it's a 160-seat space below the old Studio 54; singers lined up so far ...
Oak Room at Algonquin joins other shuttered eateries amNY (GETTY) The announcement of the closing of the Algonquin's famed Oak Room cabaret after 32 years in business last week is the latest addition to a growing list of NYC's vanishing icons of food and drink. From restaurants and diners to lounges and bars, ...
American 'Chinese' Food Comes to China Newsweek General Tso helped defeat one of the largest rebellions in Chinese history in the 1850s; more than 100 years later, a dish of sweet fried chicken bearing his name started appearing in restaurants in New York City. The general's bird, along with chop ...
Controversial advocacy group takes legal aim at Darden Middle East North Africa Financial Network Restaurant Opportunities Centers last week filed a federal lawsuit against Orlando-based Darden Restaurants, accusing its upscale Capital Grille chain in three cities of discrimination and violating wage laws. The New York-based group also is staging ...