This week only, you can purchase a collaborative dish by Ansel and Barber at Dominque Ansel Kitchen in the West Village. The pair have developed a dish featuring a scotch egg with fresh baby corn and corn mustard on the side. The pair is calling the dish “Scotch Egg Roulette” because the chickens whence the eggs have come were fed a diet including red peppers. Because of this, one out of every few dozen yolks will be colored bright red. No one will know what color their yolk is until they begin eating!

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Union Square mainstays Republic and Blue Water Grill will close by the end of the year due to rent increases. In what is becoming the increasingly common norm, both restaurants have stated that their new rent prices are unsustainable; both businesses feel they have no other option but to close their doors. Blue Water Grill is facing a rent bill north of $2 million annually, while the tax bill on the building that houses Republic has increased over 500% since the 90s.

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