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Roger Smith Hotel

  1. Neighborhood Watch
    Cooking School With Jean-Georges; New Menu Items at Num Pang MidtownPlus: a seven-course bodega-themed dinner, an amuse bouche for the arts, and more multi-sensory culinary experiences, in our daily roundup of neighborhood news.
  2. Neighborhood Watch
    Free Cocktails at the Roger Smith Hotel; Bobo Closes Over Health Violations ThenPlus: Nublu expats camp out at Lucky Cheng’s, plans for a vegan bodega, and more, in our daily roundup of neighborhood news.
  3. Ice Cream
    Ice-Cream Insanity: Miss Softee Returns; Ample Hill and Coolhaus Open; VanPlus, an ice-cream parlor that cooked crack?
  4. Publicity Gimmicks
    Diners Happily Act As Publicity Tools in New Lily’s VideoA bunch of people dining in an empty art gallery is about as ridiculous as you’d think.
  5. Marketing Gimmicks
    Hotel Restaurant Promotes New Chef With ‘Live Billboard’ (a.k.a.Who knew that an empty room could make a restaurant look good?
  6. Neighborhood Watch
    Choco Jesus Forsaken in MidtownChelsea: Surprise! The imminent opening of a Dunkin’ Donuts a few doors down from Donut Pub, a fixture since 1964, inspires anti-chain sentiment. [Villager] Lower East Side: The soft opening of the 2,000-square-foot Boucarou Lounge offers leopard-skin tube tops and cocktails with dumb names — cocktails with dumb names? No way. [Gawker] Midtown East: The showing of My Sweet Lord, the life-size, anatomically correct chocolate Jesus, has been canceled. [Eat for Victory/VV] Times Square: Attention Department of Health: At Tycoon Sushi Steakhouse in “gentleman’s club” Cheetah, Shinsaku Yamakage of Blue Ribbon will serve his cuisine off naked women. [Eater]