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Today, the role of Where to Eat writer, usually played by Nikita Richardson, will be performed by an understudy.I hope you'll still enjoy the show, as we have a few exciting reader questions to address.The curtains open on Act I, a request for dishes from Florence, Italy, that can scratch the travel itch.

NYC's food and drink selection is massive, especially when it comes to bars.With new ones opening every day it seems, it's a constantly changing scene that we love to keep our pulse on.Depending on what you're looking for in a bar, you have so many options!Looking to snuggle up in a cozy speakeasy?Or maybe even enter through a hidden door?

It's cold out there!And with a "winter bomb cyclone" set to approach NYC and the Northeast this weekend, it's time to stay warm by any means necessary.Whether that means snuggling up in your apartment, or meandering to grab a drink around the town, it should be done with thought!To make things easier, we've rounded up some of the coziest bars in NYC.

What was Daniel Boulud's modern kitchen and bar, adorned with French copper cookware, now pays homage to Mexico, specifically Tulum, the popular Yucatan destination.(Tulum is big this week; see below.)An elaborately decorated fantasyland with 165 seats, Ixta is the restaurateur Mike Himani's largest undertaking to date.

Dear Diary: I was standing on the platform at the Union Square station.My heart skipped a beat when I saw her across the tracks: my ex-girlfriend from college.We had broken up bitterly several years earlier because I wanted to move to New York City.I shouted across the tracks to get her attention.Who are you?

Artists, models and fashion people crowded into Holiday Bar in Greenwich Village on Sunday to toast the latest issue of Paradigm Trilogy, a digital publication started by Katharina Korbjuhn, a creative director who has led ad campaigns for the Italian luxury brand Tod's, the French couture house Schiaparelli and other fashion companies.

Brooklyn Brewery will move on from its home at 79 North 11th Street, on the corner of Wythe Avenue, where it has operated for the last 35 years.The brewery, known for its ubiquitous beers sold from bars and bodegas across the city - and the country - will relocate four blocks to occupy 41,000 square feet of the building at 1 Wythe Avenue, at Banker Street, Greenpointers reports.

Raymond J. Johnson Jr. was a wiseguy, dressed in a zoot suit and a wide-brimmed fedora and waving a cigar in his right hand.When someone mentioned his name, the shtick took off.Ohhhh, you doesn't have to call me Johnson, he would say.My name is Raymond J. Johnson Jr. Now, you can call me Ray, or you can call me Jay, or you can call me Johnny, or you can call me Sonny, or you can call me Junie, or you can call me Ray Jay, or you can call me R.J. Or you can call me R.J.J.

Not long ago the venerable actor F. Murray Abraham wanted to get lunch at a favorite restaurant in Greenwich Village.Unfortunately the place was overrun by New York University students shooting a film.As the Oscar-winning star of Amadeus, Angels in America and dozens of other movies, plays and TV series stood on the outside looking in, one of the students turned to another and expressed his outrage: Don't you know who this is?

We should not rush to judgment too quickly in the case of Daniel Penny.Too many already have done that.Penny, 24, has been identified by his attorneys as the Marine veteran who was video-recorded choking Jordan Neely, 30, on a New York City subway train last week.He might conceivably have earned praise for helping subdue an erratic man who was homeless and exhibited mental illness in a city where disturbing subway encounters are a way of life.

Mother's Day is Sunday, and Father's Day is June 18.Major occasions to be sure, but for those of us whose families don't live in New York City, there's always the pressing question of where to take your relatives when they decide (or deign) to visit.Only a few weeks ago, I was recommending spots for persnickety teenagers.

The team behind West Village party restaurant Bandits, and the speakeasy above a Greenwich Village Five Guys, the Garret, is now turning its attention to aestheticizing the sports bar.While plenty of sports fans will always prefer to watch the game in a dive, the new spot in the works, called Rocco's Sports & Recreation, will feature "cheeky, vintage-inspired decor and clever takes on nostalgic game day eats and drinks," per a representative.

An iconic NYC slice shop has set its sights on Boston.Joe's Pizza is planning to move into a sought-after Harvard Square space about to be vacated by another NYC-based shop, the dessert chain Milk Bar.Joe's Pizza is known for its traditional New York-style slices marked by thin, crisp crusts and classic, fuss-free toppings.

Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan star in a rarely revived Lorraine Hansberry play.Catalina Kulczar/Brooklyn Academy of Music After playwright Lorraine Hansberry rocketed to stardom in 1959 with A Raisin in the Sun, she followed it up, five years later, with The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window.The show had a short Broadway run and has rarely been revived.

While pondering the Edward Hopper exhibit at the Whitney recently, I thought often of the term "ambivert."Many of the artist's works, such as Nighthawks, , and New York Movie, feature introverted extroverts having solitary moments in theaters and restaurants.These were people craving a quiet community; company but not necessarily conversation.

Unlike his partners in Major Food Group, Mario Carbone and Jeff Zalaznick, Rich Torrisi is not moving to Miami, the current focus of this now-global restaurant company.I'm happy to be doing what we started to do, Mr. Torrisi said, referring to Torrisi Italian Specialties, his homage to Italian American fare on Mulberry Street, but not as a red sauce restaurant.

Rose Noel, the former executive chef of Maialino Mare in Washington, D.C., is opening a seafood restaurant with Marcus Samuelsson, his first spot in the city in about seven years.Hav means ocean in Swedish, and Mar translates as honey in Amharic.(Both languages played a role in Mr. Samuelsson's life.)

Balkan Streat, a new fast-casual street food joint serving burek, yeasted doughnuts, cevapi, and Balkan-style burgers, opens today, January 24, at 353 Sixth Avenue, near West Washington Place, in Greenwich Village.The counter-service restaurant comes from William Djuric, an alum of Bouchon Bakery, Gramercy Tavern, and Momofuku Ssam Bar.

The Michelin Guide is out with the first round of New York restaurants it's considering for awards this year.Fourteen restaurants in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Westchester were added on Wednesday to the organization's New York guide, a running list of restaurants in contention for awards.It's the first round of new additions since Michelin announced its stars and Bib Gourmand recipients last fall.

Dino Danelli, whose hard-charging, high-energy drumming powered the Rascals to a string of hits in the late 1960s, including the No. 1 records Good Lovin', Groovin' and People Got to Be Free, died on Thursday in Manhattan.He was 78.Joe Russo, a close friend and the band's historian, confirmed the death, at a rehabilitation center.

Long, long ago in a Midtown office far, far away, I used to work for Investopedia, a website about money and investing where, among other things, I wrote about blockchain, cryptocurrency, Elon Musk, and Apple's quarterly earnings.Looking back, it's almost hard to believe, now that most of what I cover concerns finance bros, food tech companies, NFT restaurants, and - well, I guess if the shoe fits.

Part-time faculty members at the New School have agreed to end a grueling, three-week strike over job security after reaching an agreement late Saturday with the university.The sizeable walkout had left the school at a near standstill.Classes were paused because nearly 90 percent of the faculty is made up of untenured adjunct professors and lecturers.

New York State is a pretty big place.When we try to figure out the ethos of state as a whole, we surely have to divide it up into smaller pieces.Buffalo is not Manhattan and never will be.The rural counties are a completely different beast than the Big Apple.From Buffalo to Staten Island, there are a lot of little pieces to put together in order to construct the jigsaw puzzle that is New York State.

A former Queens man who served more than 25 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted in one of New York City's most notorious murders will receive nearly $18 million in settlements with the city and the state, his lawyer said on Friday.The man, Johnny Hincapie, was convicted with six others in the fatal September 1990 subway stabbing of Brian Watkins, a 22-year-old Utah tourist who was in New York for the U.S. Open tennis tournament and on his way to Greenwich Village with his family for dinner.

The New York City Police Department said a man was arrested and charged Tuesday in connection with a string of attacks on a gay bar in Manhattan that saw its front window smashed by bricks and a rock four times in less than one month.Sean Kuilan, 34, of Hell's Kitchen, the Manhattan neighborhood where the attacks occurred, was charged with criminal possession of a weapon, criminal mischief and reckless endangerment, according to the Police Department.

Make no mistake about it, the World Cup is about suffering.All sports, really.The two go hand in hand.Suffering is so intertwined with sports that the verb is a favorite in headlines.You don't just lose, you suffer defeat.And if this is the case, then it stands to reason that no other sport is most responsible for causing suffering in this world than soccer.

You know that feeling when you're early to a party?When there's not quite a crowd, but you know there's about to be, and for some reason that new Drake album is playing over the speakers.It's the best analogy I have for how it feels to be standing outside of Munchiez right now.The small restaurant opened in Greenwich Village - at 126 MacDougal Street, near West Third Street - last weekend, channeling the convenience stores of Hong Kong with a menu that lists barbecue pork buns, cheung fun, tea eggs, and grilled skewers.

The amount of excellent food available in New York City is dizzying - even during a pandemic - yet mediocre meals somehow keep worming their way into our lives.With Eater editors dining out sometimes several times a day, we do come across lots of standout dishes, and we don't want to keep any secrets.

The once ubiquitous NYC bakery chain that was at one time the world's largest cupcake vendor, Crumbs Bake Shop, which shuttered almost a decade ago, has been resuscitated with plans for a national expansion, the Daily News reports.Original co-founders and husband-wife team Mia and Jason Bauer struck a deal to relaunch that will allow them to take items like the squiggle, red velvet, and cookies and creme cupcakes to supermarkets starting in New York, with home delivery in Manhattan by the end of the year.

Few restaurants have as distinguished or as marred a pedigree as One Fifth in Greenwich Village on the ground level of one of New York's most famous residential buildings.In the last century when the interior looked like a cruise ship, this combination steakhouse-piano bar was frequented by David Bowie, Robert Mapplethorpe, and early Saturday Night Live cast members.