New York Restaurants

• Picnic time: The Brooklyn Bridge Park concession stand collaboration between No. 7 Sub and Luke's Lobster opens 11 a.m. on Monday. The window service operation is located inside the Smokestack Building at 11 Water Street. [Grub Street] • Maison Premiere is hosting a Memorial Day party on Monday. The celebration will begin at noon with chilled seafood, oyster po' boys, plenty of booze, and live music. It's first-come, first-served. [Grub Street] • Heading to the Hamptons this weekend? There will be a Beurre & Sel pop-up at Lucy's Whey in East Hampton on Saturday and Sunday. The pop-up will return for Fourth of July weekend. [Grub Street] • Campbell's Soup announced its acquisition of baby-food brand Plum Organics yesterday. It's one of the fastest-growing companies in Silicon Valley. [Forbes] • Beginning June 3, Tertulia will start doing Monday Night Roasts of whole animals. Seamus Mullen will start with suckling pig, which will come with family-style sides, dessert, and free-flowing cider. Each month will feature a different meat, and the dinner's priced at $75 per person for four or more guests. But if your group is fewer than four, there's a $40 prix fixe option. [Grub Street] Filed Under: leftovers, beurre & sel, campbell's, lucy's whey, maison premiere, plum organics, tertulia

The king and queen of Belgium visit a festival in the port city of Ostend.

It'll melt your soul. There is an odd ice-cream truck making the rounds in the far reaches of Queens. It sells Tweety Bird ice pops and frozen SpongeBob SquarePants treats (with gumballs for eyes) like the rest, but instead of blasting the conventional — or counterfeit — version of the Mr. Softee jingle or a demented "Turkey in the Straw," this one only puts out a depressed, tinkly version of Stephen Sondheim's "Send in the Clowns." No one, not even the truck's driver, knows why. [Glorified Tomato via WyckoffHeights.com, Related] Read more posts by Hugh MerwinFiled Under: meltdowns, ice cream men, ice cream trucks, send in the clowns

EXPANSIONS — Daniel Boulud is expanding DBGB to The Venetian in Las Vegas next year. D-Biggity explains: "We've decided to bring something to Vegas that is very dear to me, a restaurant where I really have fun running and also creating the menus with it." Head over to Eater National for more on the expansion. [Eater Vegas, Eater National] GOOGA MOOGA '13: Allison Robicelli files an insightful and entertaining recap on this year's GoogaMooga festival, from a vendor's perspective. If you're interested in the fallout from this year's fest, do take 10 minutes to read the whole thing, but here's an interesting nugget: "Ultimately the reason Sunday was cancelled had nothing to do with Superfly — the NYC Parks Department was the one that flipped the kill-switch a full 90 minutes after doors were supposed to open, saying the rain combined with the crowds would have destroyed the lawn (entirely true)." The bottled water situation sounds like a nightmare, but Ms. Robicelli also notes: "Googa Mooga still treats chefs with more respect than most events." [Medium] LAWSUITS — Grub Street runs a profile of Maimon Kirschenbaum, the lawyer who is notorious for slapping restaurateurs with wage-violation lawsuits. Mr. Kirschenbaum explains: "When we started, it was like they were petrified of suing restaurant...And now it's like every restaurant owner is walking around in fear of his employees, which is good, I think." [Grub Street] THEME PARKS —Universal Studios announced an expansion at its Universal Orlando Resort in Florida with a full-on Springfield replica. That means aside from rides, it will feature actual restaurants and foods straight from The Simpsons, including Krusty Burger, Duff Brewery, Moe's Tavern, Luigi's Pizza, and a Kwik-E-Mart. [Eater National] [Photo: Eater National]

It's all about "starbursts" and "dingbats." In response to what it says amounts to a sneaky move, the company that makes Magic Hat beer has filed a federal lawsuit against the Lexington, Kentucky-based West Sixth Brewing Co. over similarities between the two companies' logos. (See them side-by-side here for comparison.) Florida Ice & Farm, the company that owns Magic Hat, claims it first tried negotiating with the start-up brewer last year after a wholesaler alerted them to the logos, which both feature numbers and stars in a round-label setting. Magic Hat alleges West Sixth's owners agreed to modify their design, but then "abruptly changed their minds" and initiated a grassroots-y social media campaign targeting the Costa Rica-based parent company. The Kentucky brewery announced it had been the target of "corporate bullying" and published an open letter asking beer lovers to sign a petition to get Magic Hat to lay off. "They call our six an 'inverted nine,' rather than an entirely separate number," West Sixth co-owner Ben Self tells WFPL. "Which is pretty silly, everybody knows that a six and a nine are not the same thing." Lexington Brewery West Sixth Locked In Trademark Dispute With Magic Hat Brewing Co. [WFPL] Magic Hat Responds to West Sixth Social Media Campaign Over Logo Design Lawsuit -Full Legal Documents [My Beer Buzz] Read more posts by Hugh MerwinFiled Under: beer me, beer, lawsuits, magic hat, west sixth brewing

If you can't find good strawberries, feel free to substitute other fruits, but make sure they're juicy.

What'd you expect? A new study conducted by Harvard Medical School found that people are largely unaware of the amount of calories in fast food — and teens are the most clueless. It's not shocking news that high-school kids think they're eating a 497-calorie meal when it's actually 756, and that Subway is the most deceiving chain. But if caloric information is more readily available, will young people actually give a shit? Should they? Even if teens are aware that McDonald's Egg-White McMuffin is 250 calories, that doesn't mean it's actually healthy (it's got high-fructose corn syrup and tons of preservatives). Once they're inside fast-food franchises, kids are going to go crazy regardless of calorie counts. The real issue is getting them to not go into these places at all. [Earlier, CBS] Read more posts by Sierra TishgartFiled Under: obesity, fast food, food news, health, teenagers

Looking for some summer reading material? Check out these books by Curbed Network editors. · The Audacity of Hops: The History of America's Craft Beer Revolution by Tom Acitelli [Editor, Curbed Boston] · The Glasgow Style: Artists in the Decorative Arts, Circa 1900 by Laura Euler [Editor, Curbed Hamptons] · Dirtyville Rhapsodies (Short Stories) by Josh Green [Editor, Curbed Atlanta] · How To Grow An Orange: The Right Way To Brainwash Your Child Into Becoming A Syracuse Fan by Sean Keeley [Editor, Curbed Seattle] eBook on wine? Why not. Gamay: Beginners Guide to Wine by Julien Perry [Editor, Eater Seattle] And coming soon, but available for pre-order now: · This is How I Find Her by Sara Polsky [Editor, Curbed New York] · Arts and Crafts Embroidery by Laura Euler [Editor, Curbed Hamptons]

After Hurricane Sandy destroyed Barbarini Alimentari in the South Street Seaport, the two couples that operated the restaurant went their separate ways. But one half of the original team, Stefano Barbagallo and Adriana Luque, are now planning to reopen the space as a new restaurant called Barbalu. The duo recently set up a Facebook page and Twitter account for this new project. The description from Facebook: Barbalu is the marriage (literally) of husband and wife team Stefano Barbagallo and Adriana Luque.Their new Italian restaurant will be opening in late spring, just a stone's throw from the South Street Seaport. The couple proves their continued commitment to this historic district with the decision to rebuild in the same location as their old restaurant Barbarini, which was completely destroyed by Superstorm Sandy.The other couple that operated Barbarini, Claudio and Linda Marini, hope to open another restaurant outside of the Seaport area. For more on how these two couples have dealt with the aftermath of the storm, check out Eater's original documentary series The Sandy Chronicles. · Barbalu [Facebook] · All Coverage of Barbarini Alimentari [~ENY~] [Photo Credit]

Yes, he lost his job. Rather than to entrust his frozen inventory to an associate, an unnamed ballpark food vendor brought his supply of snow cones into a bathroom stall during an Astros game earlier this week, then placed the entire tray on the floor next to him while he sat on the toilet. In the accompanying, depressing video, reporters talk about how they "broke" the story with the "exclusive" cell-phone video. "This unsanitary vendor might have sold his snow cones to you or your children," the reporter intones, in the most serious newsman voice you can imagine, "had he not been caught on tape first." The Snow Cone peddler was fired "immediately." [KPRC/NBC] Read more posts by Hugh MerwinFiled Under: not cool, food safety, houston, sno cones