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The 2012 Michelin Guide for New York City restaurants has added Tamarind Tribeca, Junoon, Tulsi to its prestigious list.
Each of the Indian restaurants won a single star. Still a big event.
By the way, a single star means A very good restaurant in its category.
Last year, not a single Indian restaurant made it to Michelin’s starred list. Click here to read more
Borders Bookstore including the one at Madison Square Garden in Midtown Manhattan (see below picture) will soon be closing down as part of the liquidation process that starts this Friday, July 22.
The 399-stores across the country will be liquidated and its 10,700 employees thrown on the street in the worst recession to hit America since the Great Depression.
And consumers and the communities where the Borders’ stores are located will be the poorer for it.
Borders Store at Madison Square Garden, NYC
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Zagat Survey today launched a free web site to help hungry New Yorkers locate their favorite food trucks.
The new site, FoodTrucks.Zagat.com, can also be accessed on mobile browsers.
It visually plots the real-time locations of New York’s most notable food trucks on a map. Trucks are supposed to be able to update their locations using specialized Tweets.
Zagat’s site, which is now in beta (trial form), allows users to search for food trucks by location, by cuisine and by Zagat food rating. Once a user has chosen a food truck, the site will indicate its location, social media links (Facebook, Foursquare and Twitter) and the Zagat ratings and reviews.
Explaining the rationale for the new site, the Zagat folks said that in their 2011 New York City Restaurants Survey 26% of surveyors reported eating from gourmet food trucks and 40% said they’re interested in trying them.
Zagat’s Food Truck web site also features a survey to let users rate and review the trucks they have tried in the past year.
Presently, Zagat’s top-rated food trucks are all on the sweet side of the street – Wafels & Dinges, followed by Street Sweets and Van Leeuwen Ice Cream.
We found two Indian food trucks on Zagat’s new site – Desi Food Truck 1 and 2.
The New York Division of Labor Standards has pulled up Dinanath Mulloli, owner of Yogi’s Kitchen located at 182 Lexington Avenue, alleging Labor Laws violations pertaining to his previous Indian restaurant Indo Munch, which was also at the same address.
Trouble Over Wages
According to the NY Division of Labor Standards order number 10-00936 issued on August 19, 2010, Continue reading »
Baluchi’s Rakesh Aggarwal’s Nightmare – Chapter 2
Poor Rakesh Aggarwal could soon become Poorer Rakesh Aggarwal.
Poorer?
Yes, after all, the man behind the Baluchi’s Indian restaurant chain in New York City now might have to fork out close to a million dollars ($967,000 to be precise) in a proposed legal settlement with some of his current and former employees.
Our heart goes out to the Aggarwal bloke.
A million dollars is still a lot of money.
Plus the whole legal process of the last 18 months, including the depositions, must have been very stressful to Baluchi’s owner Rakesh Aggarwal.
We won’t be surprised if the legal stress has subtracted a few years from Rakesh’s life.
Origin of Baluchi’s / Rakesh Aggarwal’s Nightmare
Rakesh Aggarwal’s nightmare started in November 2008 when some of his former and current employees sued Rakesh and his Baluchi’s Continue Reading
Rejoice, all ye cheapos.
Times Square in NYC, one of the famous tourist spots with nothing there (except for the Broadway theatres nearby), now offers free Wi-Fi.
The free wireless Internet service is courtesy of the Times Square Alliance and Yahoo.
Visitors are supposed to get free Wi-Fi via a portal providing latest information about Times Square events and businesses, as well as local weather and news from around the world.
Folks, the next time we’re in the Big Apple we’ll head over to Times Square to see for ourselves how well the free Wi-Fi Internet service works and update this post.
The Pierre Hotel, a major NYC landmark, has reopened recently after a $100 million renovation by its Indian owners, Taj Hotels Resorts & Palaces.
Located near Central Park at 5th Avenue and 61 St, the Pierre offers 189 redesigned residential-style guest rooms, including 49 suites.
Pierre, New York City
(Pix: Taj Hotels web site)
Since we have more time than we know what to do with, we played around with booking a Grand 1-Bdrm Suite at the Pierre for September 24 for just one night.
Folks, the rack rate shown us was $13,772.30 (no typo here) for one night.
Cheap, na? Continue reading »
Long Island desis Mahender Murlidhar Sabhnani and his wife Varsha Mahender Sabhnani were found guilty of enslaving and abusing two Indonesian women servants Samirah and Eung by a federal court in Central Islip.
The Sabhnanis are residents of Muttontown in Long Island.
Read the full story here.
Credit Suisse investment banker Vikram Gandhi is asking a whopping $20 million for his Upper East Side town house on 74th St in Manhattan, according to today’s Wall Street Journal.
According to the WSJ, Vikram and his socialite wife Meera Gandhi paid $4.3 million for the 18-foot wide limestone town house in 2000 and renovated it.
Source: Brown Harris Stevens
Vikram and Meera’s town house has five bedrooms, a back garden and a roof garden with views of 74th Street, The Carlyle Hotel and the treeline of Central Park.
We wonder what renovations Vikram made to the shack that it now merits an asking price of $20 million. Wow, that’s an appreciation of 365% in seven years.
While we don’t claim to know the specifics of the renovation having never been inside this $20 million Taj Mahal, what we do know is that Meera Gandhi spent two years renovating the town house and enlisted the help of Harvard architect Pedro Castillo and interior decorator Kenneth Alpert.
The town house does look grand and has some interesting history too.
You see, FDR’s widow Eleanor Roosevelt lived in the same town house for a few years before her death in 1962.
Credit Suisse’s web site lists Vikram Gandhi as a Continue reading »
Dévi , the highly acclaimed Indian restaurant in New York City, has failed an inspection conducted by the New York City Department of Health on November 15, 2007 after receiving 31 Violation Points.
Co-chefs Suvir Saran and Hemant Mathur are the new owners of Dévi, which reopened on October 22, 2007 after closing on August 27, 2007.
To pass the NYC Health Department inspection, a restaurant must receive 27 Violation Points or less.
Since Dévi received 31 Violation Points, another inspection is required to Continue reading »
