New York Restaurants

Looking for a place for brunch this weekend? Check out Eater's map of New York's hottest brunch spots of Spring 2013. It's looking like it's going to be a nice weekend, so take advantage of the good weather with some huevos rancheros in Gran Electrica's backyard garden or with a frittata by Rosemary's open floor-to-ceiling windows. [EaterWire]

Looking for something to do this weekend? Here are five choice dining events going on around the city: 1) Eatalian Beer Festival When: Saturday and Sunday Where: Eataly What: Teo Musso, brewmaster and a partner of Eataly's Birreria, has teamed up with Lurisia Water for the Eatalian Beer Festival. Musso has created four original beers n honor of the event, which will be sold for $5 a glass at every Eataly restaurant through Memorial Day. There will also be $15 flight tastings with cheese pairings available. Each of the Lurisia beers are named for their alcohol percentage, from 4% to 10%. 2) The Great GoogaMooga When: Saturday and Sunday Where: Nethermead Meadow at Prospect Park What: Ladies and gentlemen: the mammoth outdoor food and music spectacular known as The Great GoogaMooga is finally here. There will be over 85 food vendors, 75 brews, 100 wines and 20 live musical performances over the next two days. New to this year's event are three pop-up restaurants from the Spotted Pig, Roberta's and Little Wisco. The bacon-scented extravaganza kicks off today at 11 a.m. 3) Oyster Shooter Competition When: Sunday, 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Where: Evelyn Drinkery What: Tomorrow evening, the Village Fishmonger is teaming up with Evelyn Drinkery to host an oyster shooter competition called "Shuck You!" In addition to the contest, there will also be passed oysters and glasses of champagne available between 7 and 8 p.m. Tickets are $10. [Photo: Paloma Pargac] 4) Taste of Tribeca When: Today, 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Where: Hudson St. (at Duane St.) What: The 19th annual Taste of Tribeca takes place today. The outdoor culinary festival featuring tastes from over 60 restaurants in the area including Locanda Verde, Marc Forgione, and Terroir Wine Bar. Tasting cards are good for six plates and cost $45 in advance or $50 at the event. Proceeds go to benefit PS 150 and PS 234's arts and enrichment programs. 5) Brewed in Brooklyn When: Today, 9 p.m. to 10:15 p.m. Where: Maroney Theater at St. Francis College What: The New York premiere of Brewed in Brooklyn is this evening at the 2013 Art of Brooklyn Film Festival. The documentary, directed by John Weber, tells the story of how Brooklyn was once the beer brewing capital of the world and how it could be again one day soon. Check out the trailer here and purchase a $10 ticket here. Also of Note: Smorgasburg is open for business this weekend from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., with vendors like Porchetta, Red Hook Lobster Pound, and Liddabit Sweets. The Hester Street Fair is on for this weekend as well. Looking to try a new restaurant this weekend? Check out Betony, the new modern American restaurant from Bryce Shuman and Eamon Rockey, Michael White's latest venture, Costata, head to Greenpoint for raviolo with ramps at River Styx, or The Fourth, the newest from the Tocqueville Team. Fans of Nolita favorite Jo's might want to grab one last meal there before the neighborhood gem closes on May 31. And if you're looking for somewhere to drink this weekend, do consult Eater's recently updated Cocktail Heatmap. · All Previous Editions of Something for the Weekend [~ENY~]

DUMBO — Rhode Islanders rejoice, there is now a Del's Frozen Lemonade truck in NYC. This is the first New York franchise for slushy frozen drink, which has been beloved in Rhode Island since 1948. According to the truck's Twitter account, they'll be up and running for the first time at the 9th Ave Food Festival this weekend, and at Brooklyn Bridge Park after that. [Gothamist] BOSTON TO BROOKLYN — The Water Table, the floating restaurant/bar project from Kelli Farwell (a veteran of Gramercy Tavern, Rye, Dumont, and Craft), starts its journey to Brooklyn this weekend. The old ferry's non-stop journey from Boston Harbor will take about 20 to 24 hours, and live satellite tracking of the whole thing will start on Saturday, May 18 at about 11 a.m. The boat will end up at Atlantic Basin, in Red Hook, where it will hopefully be open for dinner by July. [EaterWire] NEWSTANDS — The first issue of Cherry Bombe, the new food magazine from Seersucker's Kerry Diamond started hitting newstands in NYC this weekend, and will be coming out across the country throughout the next week. The biannual magazine, which "celebrates women and food" will be sold at select newsstands, indie bookstores and Barnes & Nobles, plus some "foodie-centric locations" like Bklyn Larder. [EaterWire] BOOK CLUB — Eater National has a first look at Wisconsin Supper Clubs: An Old-Fashioned Experience, the book by Ron Faiola that profiles 50 of those vintage Midwestern restaurants, including the one that possibly inspired Michael White's latest project. [EN]

• Yes! Ducasse-endorsed Lafayette is launching brunch next week. [Bedford + Bowery/Twitter] • On Wednesday, May 22, Tavern29 is celebrating its one-year anniversary with an open bar. Enjoy 24 craft beers on tap or small-batch bourbon and whiskey from 5 to 7 p.m. [Grub Street] • Good Eggs Brooklyn is getting ready to launch its farm-to-fridge delivery service this summer. You'll be able to order Hudson Valley strawberries and just-baked bread from dozens of local producers for easy delivery in Brooklyn. For updates on the launch, follow Good Eggs on Facebook and Twitter. [Grub Street] • It looks like Fonda chef Roberto Santibañez is opening a restaurant in the Beer Table space on Seventh Avenue. At the moment, he's not providing any details, but stay tuned for news in the coming weeks. [DNAinfo] • Stanley's Pharmacy, a new "wellness bar" on the Lower East Side, will serve healthy drinks like kombucha on tap, herbal teas, and sodas made from organic fruits and sugars — also known as, hangover cures. [T] Filed Under: leftovers, andrew carmellini, fonda, good eggs brooklyn, lafayette, stanley's pharmacy, tavern29

It'll look something like this. Gothamist made a major and crucial frozen-lemonade discovery just in time for summer: Apparently, Rhode Island's famous Del's Lemonade is now in New York. The soft, slushy, and drinkable stuff will be available at this weekend's Ninth Avenue Food Festival and at Brooklyn Bridge Park, the site reports, where the vendor will dispense cups of the zest-filled and fructose-spiked happiness from the back of a refurbished 1949 Chevrolet 3/4-ton truck. It remains unclear if Del's NY is Rhode Island Del's–sanctioned, or what its Wikipedia page refers to as a genericized trademark, but we'll take anything we can get. Also, they're on Twitter. [Gothamist via Kat Kinsman/Twitter] Read more posts by Hugh MerwinFiled Under: life gives you lemons, del's, del's frozen lemonade, del's lemonade, truckin'

Eater scanned through all 1,364 NYC restaurants on OpenTable with reservations for two still available for tonight. Here's the best of the bunch. Get 'em while they're hot: · Jungsik (7:45, 8:00) · Tocqueville (7:15, 7:30, 7:45) · Aquavit (9:00) · Yopparai (7:15, 7:45, 8:00) · Corton (7:45, 8:00) · Strip House (8:45) · Veritas (9:00) · Quality Meats (8:00) · Ai Fiori (9:15) · Mas (La Grillade) (7:45, 8:00) · Lincoln Ristorante (8:45, 9:00) · Rouge Tomate (7:15, 8:30, 9:00) · Aureole (8:00, 8:45) · Becco (9:00) · Sorella (7:30, 8:00, 8:30) · La Mangeoire (8:45) · Aldea (7:15, 8:30) · Bocca (8:00, 9:00) · Uva (7:00) · Burger and Barrel (8:00, 9:00) · db Bistro Moderne (7:30, 7:45, 8:15) · Butter (7:30) · Louro (7:00, 8:30) · Recette (7:45) · L'Apicio (7:45) · Amali (7:30, 7:45, 8:30) · OpenTable [Official Site] [Amali via Haute Living]

[Daniel Krieger] For the last several years, Jo's on Elizabeth Street was one of the best places in the neighborhood to pop in for drink or a casual dinner on the fly. But sadly, today owner Jim Chu tells Eater that the restaurant will close after service on May 31. Although the restaurant always had a fair share of regulars at the bar, and the dining room was usually busy on the weekends, Jo's received almost no attention from the critics over the years. Mr. Chu explains that the landlord has other designs for the space once the lease is up, and that it probably won't reopen as a restaurant. Jo's opened almost exactly four years ago. · All Coverage of Jo's [~ENY~]

Here's David Chang cooking up space food for Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield and the team at the International Space Station. He ends up making shrimp and grits, because the astronauts requested a cheesier version of what's usually available to them, but in the end the recipe was "virtually impossible" for Hadfield to eat because gravity. [Youtube via Kottke]

Fly with friendly fries. If you're excited about New York's newest Shake Shack, which opens May 24 at Terminal T4 at JFK Airport, you might want to stop by Delta’s T4X Soho pop-up at 376 West Broadway in Soho between Sunday May 19 and Wednesday May 22. From 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day — and certainly while supplies last — visitors can pick up a boarding-pass-like voucher that entitles the bearer to one free ShackBurger at any participating Shake Shack, and not just the new one in the airport. [T4X, Earlier] Read more posts by Hugh MerwinFiled Under: freebies, danny meyer, free, shack attack, shack burgers, shake shack

With the help of the Eater 38 and the Eater Heatmaps, it's a breeze to find out where to eat right now, whether it's a hot newcomer or an old neighborhood standby. Now it's just as easy to find out where to get a good, stiff drink in this town. Welcome back to Eater's Cocktail Heatmap, a guide to the hot bars of the moment. Rather than feature the perennial favorites, this guide focuses on operations that have opened in the last year or two or recently underwent a revamp. Happy drinking, and as always, feel free to write in with new suggestions. Click here to view the map. Added 1/16/12: Le Bernardin, One Stop Beer Shop, The Wren, Prima, The Wayland Added 2/9/12: The Shanty, Booker & Dax, Super Linda Added 3/7/12: Amor & Amargo, JBird Cocktails, Oak & Iron Added 8/4/12: The Nomad, Nougatine, Mother's Ruin, Demi Monde Added 11/12/12: Pouring Ribbons, Experimental Cocktail Club, Gin Palace Added 02/13/13: Added: The Dead Rabbit, Milk & Honey, The Library at The Public Theater, Atera Lounge, Aska, Lavender Lake, The Third Man, Donna Added 5/17/13: Achilles Heel, Manon, Betony, Alameda