Neighborhood Watch

An UnFancy Food Show in Gowanus; $2 Cocktails at Yerba Buena

Clinton Hill: Sushi restaurant Wasabi 1 is coming to the corner of Fulton Street and Waverly Avenue; the opening date is unknown. [Clinton Hill Blog]


East Village: Get $2 mojitos and aztecas at Yerba Buena’s second anniversary party on June 28. [Grub Street]


Planet One Café, a vegetarian restaurant on 7th Street near First Avenue, is closed. [Vanishing New York]


Gowanus: The fourth annual UnFancy Food Show is on June 27 at the Bell House from noon until 5 p.m. Nearly 50 vendors, including Marlow & Sons, the Food Experiments, and Brooklyn Brewery, will offer tastings of food and drink; bands the Beatards and the Dixons will perform. [Brooklyn Based]


Midtown: David Haynes, previously of Jules Verne in Paris and Le Cirque in New York and Las Vegas, is the new chef at Redeye Grill. [Grub Street]

Soho: L’Ecole has updated its drinks menu with summer cocktails like the rum-sicle and strawberry caipirinha, a deeper selection of rosé wines, and microbrews like Blue Point Brewery Summer Ale and Rogue Mocha Porter. [Grub Street]


Williamsburg: The team behind Boneshakers is opening Champ’s, a vegan bakery and café, at the corner of Leonard and Ainslie Streets; the restaurant will open in July. [ Super Vegan via Free Williamsburg]

An UnFancy Food Show in Gowanus; $2 Cocktails at Yerba Buena