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Bodega

  1. Leftovers
    Salt Air Opening on Abbot Kinney in May; Smoke Extinguished on MelroseThe new Venice seafood project comes from Sunny Spot and littlefork owner David Reiss.
  2. Grub Guide
    Where To Take The Edge Off of The Election TodayDiscount sliders, free partisan drinks, and French dip deals arrive to swing all the undecided drinkers and diners.
  3. Bodega
    Another Bronx Bodega ShootingIt’s also Bodega Week.
  4. Nightlife
    It’s Lights On for Darkroom Space When Bodega Opens May 1It’s “an old-school Lower East Side bodega meets a sophisticated and sexy speakeasy,” duh.
  5. Pop-ups
    Dale Talde’s Bodega Will Pop Up This SaturdayThe ‘Top Chef’ toque’s “family meal” costs $100 a seat.
  6. Neighborhood Watch
    Lucas Fine Foods Closes in Park Slope; Klee Offers Free Cupcake Tastings inPlus: a sweets festival in Park Slope, and a new 99 Cent Fresh Pizza in midtown, and more, in today’s roundup of neighborhood news.
  7. Empire Building
    BLT Burger, Er, Go Burger, Coming to HollywoodThe chain has locations in Vegas and New York, but no longer has the chef who helped start it.
  8. Oenophile
    Bodega Expanding to HollywoodThe third, biggest, and most central location of the Italian wine bar opens on Monday.
  9. Click and Save
    Video Reveals Bodega Food Pyramid“The bodega’s a staple of life. This is how you survive in the Bronx!” So say Dallas Penn and Rafi Kam, the stars and creators of Bodega, an online video that premiered this week on the Daily Reel. If you’re looking for searing commentary on the travails of the inner-city eating, you won’t find it here — not explicitly, anyhow. These guys have nothing but semi-ironic affection for the ultracheap junk-food grocery, and they catalogue all the major food groups: snack cakes, pork rinds, quarter-waters (the little blue and red drinks that resemble hand grenades), and, of course, 40-ounce bottles of malt liquor. The Bronx, the video tells us, is the poorest urban county in the U.S. We should be thankful, then, that it is so rich in trans fats. See the actual pyramid after the jump. Bodega [Daily Reel]