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Dining is a spectacle at Bad Roman, the new not-Italian Italian restaurant from the Quality Branded team, where a Buca di Beppo version of a fern bar meets White Lotus-level decadence in a massive dining room one story below the three-Michelin-starred Per Se. (Got all that?)The restaurant opens this Friday on the third floor of the Time Warner Center at 10 Columbus Circle, between West 58th and 59th streets, taking over a space that was home to Landmarc for more than a decade.

Fried cod, haddock, hake, and whiting for Lent, spring, or any time at all




A pub food classic, fish and chips is a perennial crowd pleaser, whether the fish in question is haddock or cod, beer-battered or tempura.The fries are equally important, from fat potato wedges with a crisp exterior and a creamy interior to the more American style, twice-fried sticks sometimes tossed in Old Bay seasoning.

The 130-year-old Alleva Dairy cheese shop, New York City's oldest, closed this week.Originally, the Little Italy institution had announced a March 5 shutdown, but the New York Post reports that owner Karen King decided to call it early, and has announced plans to relocate Alleva to New Jersey.Prior to the closure, the cheese shop had accrued months of unpaid rent during the pandemic and had set up a GoFundMe to help with costs.

This fall, I visited Paris.On the recommendation of a friend of a friend, I dropped into Le Chardenoux, a whisper of a restaurant in the 11th Arrondissement.I bring it up because that tiny space was the ideal cozy restaurant: low light, just a handful of seats and that purr of soft, latent energy that you can find only in intimate places.

Whether it's green, black, white, or pu'erh tea; matcha, chai, or tisane: Here's where to find teas.Whether your preference is black or green tea, oolong or pu'erh tea, New York has some spectacular spots for tea for a fun tea-tasting date, a group outing in lieu of coffee, or a tranquil pause in a serene setting.

Alleva Dairy, a 130-year-old cheese store in Little Italy, closed its original location on Wednesday but will reopen in Lyndhurst, N.J.The pandemic dealt financial blows to the shop, which opened in 1892 and became known for its fresh ricotta and mozzarella.The cheese store accumulated $628,000 in back rent and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last year.

The celebration of Carnival occurring this year just before Lent begins on Wednesday, Feb. 22 is marked in Scandinavia with yeasted pastries variously called semlor (Swedish), fastelavnsboller (Danish) and laskiaispulla (Finnish), depending on the country.Made from cardamom-scented pastry, they're split and overflowing with custard or whipped cream.

Dear Diary: My wife and I moved our daughter into a walk-up on 86th Street in summer 2002, lugging her furniture up four flights from midnight to 2 a.m.I had to return the rented trailer to U-Haul at 135th and Broadway in the morning.Being from out of town, I was nervous about driving in New York, especially on a Monday at rush hour.

The celebrated design editor Hamish Bowles is selling his whimsical and ornate Greenwich Village home, a cozy prewar duplex that he filled with assorted treasures, from antique furnishings to vintage books and couture clothing.The asking price for the co-op unit, at 45 East Ninth Street, near Washington Square Park, is $2.9 million, according to Chris Poore, a broker at Sotheby's International Realty, which is listing the property.

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?

If all goes as planned, L'Artusi in the West Village is on track to take over the nearby I Sodi space with a lease meant to be finalized in the coming weeks, co-owner Kevin Garry tells Eater.The new spot is listed as L'Artusi Supper Club in the Manhattan Community Board 2 filing, an approximately 38-seat space that would allow for a "more intimate, communal, family setting," where the restaurant's chef, Joe Vigorito, will create the menu; the space will occasionally be the site of wine dinners and guest chef events.

At a time when theaters are struggling to reach prepandemic audience levels, the New Ohio Theater, a staple for artists and independent theater companies for 30 years, announced it would present its final Manhattan performance in August.The shifting theater landscape and increased financial pressures led to the decision, said the founding artistic director, Robert Lyons, who is also a playwright and director.

Dear Diary: It was a warm August day in New York in 1969.I was 21 and just back from Vietnam.I had been drafted into the Army two years earlier, and my second year in Southeast Asia had been the longest in my life.It ended with me returning to the World Brooklyn in one piece as one of the lucky ones.

Fish and chips might seem straightforward, but in fact, there are infinite variations both here and in the UK, where the dish originates.The "chips" part of fish and chips provides a rare occasion to refer to french fries by their British name.There, chips are rather stubby and greasy by design; here, we prefer a more slender and less greasy french fry.

Following landlord disputes, the acclaimed cocktail bar Angel's Share closed in March 2022.In the meantime, the bar had been hosting pop-ups at a satellite location in a Midtown hotel last summer, but now the bar is opening in a permanent new location.Angel's Share is set to debut at 45 Grove Street, a block from Via Carota in the West Village, according to the New York Times.

Rattlestick Theater, a well-regarded Off Broadway company in the West Village, has decided to name Will Davis, a freelance director and choreographer, as its next artistic director.Davis will succeed Daniella Topol, the artistic director since 2016, who has decided to leave theater administration to pursue a career as a nurse.

Eight years ago, Angie Valentino, an award-winning makeup artist, moved from Milan where she worked for brands like Fendi, Versace, Dolce & Gabbana and Philipp Plein to New York.Since then, she has focused on private clients around the city, including Broadway and television performers.Ms. Valentino, 37, lives in Ridgewood, Queens.

There's a schism between vegan restaurants and carnivorous spots that seems to grow along with every other political rift in America.On one side, some vegan places adopt a righteous attitude, proclaiming ecological catastrophe while heaping ignominy on those who eat meat, while the meat-centric restaurants belittle vegans, condescending to offer them only a paltry choice or two even though vegetables can be made into an infinite number of spectacular dishes.

Dear Diary: I was chatting with my German teacher after a class at the Goethe Institute on a chilly November evening.We were both hungry, so we decided to get chicken sandwiches at a halal food truck near Union Square Park.The park was mostly deserted, but we decided to sit there and eat anyway.Being two women alone at night, we chose a bench beneath good lighting for safety's sake.