Officials for Fairway Market have announced the grocery chain’s fifth Manhattan location, on Sixth Ave. near West 26th Street, will open Monday, July 24th.
The 23,000-square-foot store is on two-floors. Fairway will host a ceremony celebrating the opening at 9 a.m. on July 24, followed by a ribbon-cutting.
The store should open to shoppers at 10 a.m.
It’s a week full of opportunities for operators looking in NYC.
Hudson River Park Trust is looking for a restaurateur to run a new waterfront venue on TriBeCa’s Pier 26th.
The 3,335-square-foot restaurant will feature a roof deck and outdoor dining, according to a request for proposals released Monday.
The Trust is looking for a restaurateur to create a “high-quality, yet casual, waterfront destination restaurant… that will attract both neighborhood residents and area visitors.”
Proposals for the year-round restaurant are due by Aug. 23.
The New York City Department of Parks and Recreation is issuing a Request for Proposals for the installation, operation, and management of a specialty food market at Worth Square, Manhattan.
All proposals submitted in response to this RFP must be submitted no later than Tuesday, July 23, 2013 at 3:00 p.m. There will be a recommended proposer meeting and site tour on Tuesday, July 9, 2013 at 11:00 a.m. We will be meeting at the proposed concession site, which is located at the intersection of Broadway, Fifth Avenue, West 24th Street, and West 25th Street. We will be meeting in front of the Worth Monument. If you are considering responding to this RFP, they suggest attending this recommended meeting and site tour.
Hard copies of the RFP can be obtained, at no cost, commencing on Tuesday, June 18, 2013 through Tuesday, July 23, 2013, between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., excluding weekends and holidays, at the Revenue Division of the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, which is located at 830 Fifth Avenue, Room 407, New York, NY 10065.
The RFP is also available for download, commencing Tuesday, June 18, 2013, through Tuesday, July 23, 2013, on Parks’ website. To download the RFP, visit http://www.nyc.gov/parks/businessopportunities and click on the “Concessions Opportunities at Parks” link. Once you have logged in, click on the “download” link that appears adjacent to the RFP’s description.
For more information or to request to receive a copy of the RFP by mail, prospective proposers may contact the Revenue Division’s Project Manager, Kathryn Winder, at (212) 360-3483 or at kathryn.winder@parks.nyc.gov.
Grub Street has profiled the new “I Am Coffee” on St. Mark’s Place in Manhattan, and is quite unlike all other coffee bars in this city. Their baristas display a deft hand with Italian espresso from Bologna’s Manuel Terzi, crafting drinks as true mixologists, similar to Terzi Caffè in Bologna.
Chef Wylie Dufresne is often cited as being at the forefront of molecular gastronomy, but even he, who took the James Beard Award this year for Best Chef in New York City, had interesting take aways from The Taste of Science dinner last week.
Read the full article on WSJ, and don’t miss the inspiring slideshow.
Grub Street tallys New York’s innovative ice cream shops at 22, and writes up their new summer flavors and favorites. In this mouth-watering round-up, we’re reminded that Odd Fellows opens on Thursday in Williamsburg — yet another reason to try out that ferry and cool off.
It’s not often that a single food takes a city by storm, but Dominique Ansel’s Cronut seems to have done just that. Have you tried it yet?
After walking by the uber-rustic-chic Tres Carnes corner of Chelsea for the past couple of weeks, we finally had a chance to dine “in” yesterday, and see what the lines are about. Serious Eats gave them a first look, and we’re glad we did. In a neighborhood saturated with fast casual outlets, it seems they are poised to take on the storm.
There’s a verified pit master, Chipolte-level efficiency of service, and what seem to be many happy meat eaters in the midst.
Food Tech + Connect is co-hosting the inaugural Internet Week NY Food Tech Brunch with Food52, Cookbook Create, The Harvard Common Press Track and many others. Attendance will see you joining Internet Week speakers, food and drink do-ers, innovators, bloggers and media for drinks and bites to celebrate the launch of the Food Tech track.
Big news for specialty coffee in Gotham: Stumptown Coffee Roasters will open its first stand-alone Manhattan cafe this week, on 8th Street, and Intelligentsia Coffee will open in the High Line Hotel in Chelsea. This will be Stumptown’s most ambitious cafe to date — a $1 Million buildout, and Intelligentsia’s first cafe in New York.
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