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Waldy Malouf

  1. Openings
    Prime Grill Moving Into the Beacon SpaceKosher wines with a dedicated sommelier and wood-fired steaks.
  2. Closings
    Midtown Restaurant Beacon Has Closed After Thirteen YearsThe restaurant’s owners say a rent dispute led to the closure.
  3. Foodievents
    The Ultimate Meat Hang: The Beacon’s Annual Beefsteak600 pounds of steak, 900 pints of beer, and that’s just the beginning of it.
  4. Locavoraciousness
    ‘Gourmonsters’ Finally Mail Letter to ObamaAnd begin serving a “Yes We Can” cocktail.
  5. Recession Is Your Friend
    Beacon’s Stimulus PlanWaldy Malouf’s restaurant cuts entrée prices by 20 percent. Cocktails and wine are also reduced.
  6. The Other Critics
    Bruni Gets Up Close and Personal With ChefsThe ‘Times’ critic hits a few chef’s tables and counters.
  7. Mediavore
    Budweiser to Go Belgian?; More Legal Woes for CiprianisPlus where Tom and Padma watched the ‘Top Chef’ finale, Magnolia Bakery’s new breakfast eats, and more, in our morning digest of news and gossip.
  8. Neighborhood Watch
    Barney Greengrass Slashes Prices; Kuma Inn Coming to Fort GreenePainfully hip doughnuts and Bruni’s nice deed of the day, in today’s neighborhood food news.
  9. In the Magazine
    A ‘Top Chef’ Surprise and Other Summer Treats The lull of midsummer is already over, and new growths sprout everywhere. A young chef gives his first restaurant a go, a veteran gets his own place for the first time, and an established star gets a fresh start. We have restaurant openings, new and better lemonades, and even a baked squash blossom. Summer is starting to tire, but the food stays sharp.
  10. Mediavore
    Nello Buys ‘Page Six’ on the Cheap; Jody Williams Trying Not toNello’s Nello Ballan gives Richard Johnson a $1,000 gift, and fifteen “Page Six” mentions of Ballan’s restaurant later, the embattled gossip column has the devil to pay. [NYT] Jody Williams claims not to have read Frank Bruni’s review of Morandi, though she knows that people are laying odds on the date of her departure. [Mouthing Off/Food & Wine] Related: Not So Bene [NYM] Restaurant-industry lobbyists express a not-unexpected disappointment with the federal minimum-wage increase passed by Congress, finding it “entirely out of place” in a war-spending bill. [Nation’s Restaurant News]