thecorcorangrouptips:

You must have the monstrous Walnut Chocolate Chip Cookie…if it can still be called a cookie.

Arpeggio Food & Wine – located in the heart of Lincoln Center – announced today the appointment of Timothy Molinari as Executive Chef of the full service restaurant and wine bar. Molinari was previously the Executive Chef at Legal Sea Foods Restaurant in Huntington, NY, and the Marriott in Islandia, NY.
Having grown up barbequing on Long Island with his family, Chef Molinari favors “slow and low” cooked dishes, which he will introduce this fall to Arpeggio’s innovative Mediterranean seasonal comfort food. The stylish restaurant will continue to feature an extensive library of outstanding local and global wines.

A graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, Chef Molinari began his career cooking for the Marriott Islandia and was quickly promoted to sous chef. Over the next four years, he worked at the House of Blues in Las Vegas, as a traveling chef in Texas, and a chef at the Cayman Islands Westin Resort and New York’s Marriot. Finally he landed at Legal Sea Foods on Long Island, where he worked for five years and became Executive Chef.

Arpeggio Food & Wine, owned and operated by Restaurant Associates, is located at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center Plaza at Broadway and 65th Street. The restaurant is open Tuesday – Saturday from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm, and for lunch on Saturday from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm, and on Friday matinee days.

The phone number is 212-874-7000. Reservations are recommended and also taken at www.opentable.com.

For more information, please go to www.arpeggiofoodandwine.com.

paulkatcher:

Just as we learn that Trader Joe’s on West 72 Street has an official opening date of Sept. 20, we receive the bad news that the Barnes & Noble megastore at 66th and Broadway will be closing due to high rents.

There’s something about a trip to a huge bookstore that always leaves me inspired to learn and do. Knowledge is power, and that store was a multi-floor power vault. (With your occasional “Confessions of an Heiress” by Paris Hilton thrown in.)

So, yeah, this is sadder than, say, losing a Foot Locker.

Thankfully, B&N says it will continue to seek an alternate space on the UWS.

And now we can start the pool on how long the Lincoln Triangle space will go unoccupied.

thecorcorangroup:

Giorgio Milos, the 2008 barista champion of Italy, columnist and Illy Caffe “master barista,” will be giving away coffee on Friday from noon to 2 p.m. at a pushcart set up in front of At65 Cafe, by the entrance to Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center. The coffee is free. All you have to do is ask Mr. Milos a question.  Every Friday though October 8th.

At65 Cafe
Alice Tully Hall, 1941 Broadway, Upper West Side