And there he went through all the trouble of dressing up. The record-breaking heat wave had local newscasters trying to fry eggs on the sidewalk, but the rest of us were still able to find a more sanitary means of feeding ourselves. Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz managed to grab some pasta and calamari on the Upper East Side, while the globe-trotting Anthony Bourdain ventured into the exotic Flatiron district with his wife. Finding food wasn’t an issue for David [...]

Clinton Hill: Get your clambake on with the Vanderbilt and Kelso of Brooklyn on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. The event is a four-beer, four-course sit-down feast, and the clambake menu includes a tomato and watermelon salad and St. Louis Barbecue Pork Steak. For tickets and reservations, call 718-623-0570 or e-mail info@thevanderbiltnyc.com. [Grub Street] East Village: Bar on A is now on the market after the passing of owner Bob Scarrano last March. Rent is $13,500 a month. [EV Grieve] Fort [...]

A for effort, maybe. The Wall Street Journal reports on the arrest of a Queens restaurant owner who tried to bribe an undercover investigator with $500 in exchange for a passing grade on his restaurant inspection. Tony Lam allegedly placed the cash in the undercover officer’s pocket upon hearing about his restaurant’s critical violations; the restaurant, called Bungrill, is part of the food court at New World Mall in Flushing. The paper notes that while no health inspectors have been [...]

You’ll still need a jacket to get in. Just in time for the ’21′st century (we kid), restaurant institution ’21′ Club will convert its current lounge area into a new, ten-seat bar with a “casual vibe” next month when it closes for its regular annual summer vacation, according to Crain’s. The 81-year-old bar and serious lawn-jockey magnet held an open call for new staff, including mixologists, earlier this week. The mid-September opening of Bar ’21′ will mark the first time [...]

This is not the food truck you’re looking for. Not content to rest on its laurels with spectacular promotions like their “King of Pop Pub Crawl,” the famous car-fare-for-bar-tab exchange and the occasional nod to Hogwarts, mini-empire Village Pourhouse is apparently in stealth launch mode with its new food truck, serving “wings,” fries, and sliders — but no beer. Blogger New York Street Food found the truck, which hit the streets only Tuesday, in the West Village. Those aboard the [...]

It sounds like a fun place! If our Meatopia slideshow had you kicking yourself for not getting in on the seared-flesh action, there’s another meat-stravaganza coming up this summer. For the second year in a row, Jimmy Carbone is throwing his Pig Island celebration on Governors Island, and so far nineteen chefs are onboard to fire up the barbecue pit at the September 10 event. We hear Jacques Gautier of Palo Santo is offering pig’s head tacos and Heather Carlucci-Rodriguez [...]

It’s 4 p.m., and that means it’s time to play Two for Eight. We just asked ten restaurants the best time they can squeeze a couple in for dinner; you need only make your chosen reservation. (As always, we make the calls but don’t guarantee the results.) Today: TV chefs. Babbo (Menu) 212-777-0303 Two for eight? No Best available: 10:30 p.m. Craft (Menu) 212-780-0880 Two for eight? No Best available: 10 p.m. Daniel (Menu) 212-288-0033 Two for eight? No Best [...]

Mmmmm…. The contents of civil-rights hero Rosa Parks’s estate are currently being auctioned as a single lot by UES auction house Guernsey’s, and in addition to a postcard from Martin Luther King, Jr., and a trove of personal items is a recipe for “featherlite pancakes,” handwritten by Parks on the back of a bank deposit envelope. The “featherlite” of the recipe’s name refers to a kind of self-rising flour made by Alabama’s Glister Milling Company; you can just use all-purpose. [...]

Baohaus II opens tonight. It’s been just over half a year since Eddie Huang’s sit-down spot, Xiao Ye, crashed and burned amid Four Loko crackdowns, and now the Huang-ster is back to doing what he does best: stuffing buns. When the second Baoahaus opens this evening in the East Village, it’ll have all of the staples from the Rivington shop (the pork-belly-stuffed Chairman Bao; our favorite, the fried-chicken-filled Birdhaus), plus a bunch of new offerings. The Robin Givens resurrects the [...]

By “won,” they mean “became even more profitable.” Oh boy: Over on The Atlantic, Hank Cordello is up to his old tricks. You’ll recall that the McDonald’s-loving writer is affiliated with a conservative think tank that has taken money from Mickey D’s, and that he has a whole other host of unseemly connections to the Golden Arches. So! It should come as no surprise that the guy wrote a piece titled “Are McDonald’s and Walmart Winning the War on Obesity?” [...]