I Don't Wanna Work, I Just Wanna Eat Scrambled Eggs All Day

If you got home wasted last night and accidentally ate all the food in your fridge, check out one of the pictured spots for brunch this afternoon.

BK: Mile End, Fort Defiance Manhattan: Red Farm, The Breslin, Prune, Tertulia

Enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Will Chicago be Home to the Second U.S. Eataly?

Grant Achatz was recently in New York looking for a place to call home for his Chicago cocktail bar The Aviary.  To keep the culinary world spinning on its axis, Joe Bastianich went to Chicago looking for a space to expand the Eataly empire. 

It's sort of like Monopoly, would the Chicago location offer free parking??

Savoy to Open as More Casual Back Forty, Dubbed Back Forty West

After a 20 year run, Savoy shut its doors last June and but will soon emerge from hibernation.

The new digs will be called Back Forty West and offer a similar menu to Hoffman's Back Forty in the East Village in a more casual setting.  Chef Shanna Pacifico will make the move from Back Forty and get Back Forty West up and running in a couple of months.

Is it too much to ask for an honorary cassoulet?

Blue Ribbon Sushi in Park Slope Packs Up and Moves to Shutsville

Blue Ribbon Sushi in Park Slope, on 5th Ave between Garfield and 1st, is calling it quits after 10 years. Not a huge surprise, as a peek through the wood slats never revealed a full house.

The lease is up March 1st but the plan is to move next door with Blue Ribbon Brasserie.

With the high profile invasion of restaurants to Park Slope, one can only wonder who's going to take up the new lease.

Ellabess to Close After Valentine's Day

Less than a full week after the walls of Ellabess were filled with bloody mary's, and plenty of people to drink them, we learn today that the restaurant will close after service on Valentine's Day this Tuesday. The space will act as a private events locale for the Nolitan Hotel in the interim, and will reopen after a reconfiguration sometime this spring.

Time's are tough when the team behind Dell'anima, L'Artusi, and Anfora have to shutter a concept that's less than a year old.

Time Out New York Gears Up for the 2012 Food and Drink Awards

Voting starts today for the annual TONY Food and Drink Awards. 

Best new restaurant nominees are Boulud Sud, Isa, The Monkey Bar, and The Dutch.

Damon Wise (The Monkey Bar), Seamus Mullen (Tertulia), Ignacio Mattos (Isa), and Alex Stupak (Empellon) all get Chef of the Year nods.

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Wylie Dufresne May Soon Have a Friend in Grant Achatz

Grant Achatz, the brain behind Alinea, Next, and The Aviary, all in Chicago, was recently in New York City scouting possible locations for an offshoot of his fancy cocktails cocktail bar.  That's "The Porthole" pictured above.

"New York has always been intriguing. I think this would be a lot of fun."

So do we.

Gefilte Fish Fetches a Star

Pete Wells gives one star to the 4-month-old Kutshers, where chef Mark Spangenthal serves a modern take on the cuisine of Eastern European Jews.