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Jeffrey Chodorow Exoticizes The Locals

Jeffrey Chodorow's Borough opens tonight. After a peek last night, we're convinced it's by far the most restrained of his recent restaurants. No ninja swords, as at Kobe Club, no golden spermy fish hanging from the ceiling, as at Wild Salmon. That's not to say the place doesn't have a gimmick. The idea behind the menu (by Zak Pelaccio, late of 5 Ninth) is that it represents the food stuffs from the ethnic communities that can be found in New York's 5 Boroughs. Borough, get it? There were fried pickles for the Jews, fried chicken for the Blacks, and clam casino flatbreads for the Itals. This is the restaurant version of Joseph Sitt's Coney Island: There's something for everyone. Except the Asians. more »

1:43 PM ON THU JUN 21 2007
BY JOSH
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Latest by Listage on Eater: · Borough Feels a Little "Meh" [Gawker] · Borough "Needs Time" [Snack] · Mickie D's Nicer to Fish Population Than... more

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Even Chodorow's PR People Don't Eat At Kobe Club

Last night at Daisy May's BBQ (in our humble opinion, some of the best in the city), we spotted a large and gregarious party in the back room. Upon closer inspection it turned out to include none other than Krazy Karine Bakhoum who reps the constantly embattled Jeffrey Chodorow. Bakhoum was there with Pascal Riffaud, her husband and the constantly embattled founder of pay-to-eat service Primetime Tables; Penny Glazier president of the Glazier Group and restaurant critic Gael Greene. There was also some mustachioed dude cheering for the Red Sox. Note to that guy: In your face. Note to Pascal: Happy birthday. Now to unpack what this gathering means. more »

4:35 PM ON THU MAY 24 2007
BY JOSH
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Latest by Pope John Peeps II: Does nobody nail shit to doors no more? Luther would have totally been all up in here with his "95... more

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Is Jeffrey Chodorow The Antichrist?

The best part of today's profile of David Chang in the Times isn't that the reporter notices Pearl Jam playing on the stereo (no big deal, I have a limited edition of Ten!) or the news (unconfirmed) that Chang will be opening a Vegas Momofuku. No, the best part comes from Chang himself. Apropros entrepreneurs, Chang asserts that restaurateur "Jeffrey Chodorow is the antichrist." A quick marshaling of the evidence proves that Chang is factually correct. more »

3:30 PM ON FRI MAY 18 2007
BY JOSH
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Latest by Sara Benincasa: Josh D. S., this post made me indescribably happy for reasons I can't quite pinpoint. Thank you for giving me... more

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Join The Bruni Cause—Or The Bruni Effect

A whorl of unanswerable questions have been encircling the hardbody of New York Times restaurant critic Frank Bruni. Keith McNally accused him of lady-hating. Phallic restaurateur Jeffrey Chodorow accused him of pettiness. Now The Observer's Chris Shott accuses him of influence. Shott claims restaurants live or die by the Bruni review, a charge which Bruni accurately denies. more »

12:07 PM ON WED MAY 9 2007
BY JOSH
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Jeffrey Chodorow Is Thinking Of Your Death

When Jeffrey Chodorow stopped by our table at his newly opened Wild Salmon, he proudly pointed heavenly to the shoal of golden salmon swimming, as noted, semenly upstream on the ceiling. Choad, like a proud father, told us the fishes were injection-molded copper. His eyes shining under the reflection of 249 fish, Chodorow confessed the fish had cost more than Kobe Club's Damocles-like swords. So imagine our sense of betrayal when we read the Choad has "assured" New York's Gael Greene that "They're plastic, so you can't possibly be killed if one falls on your head." Well, which is it, Chodorow? A quick call to the restaurant confirms our worst fears. The fish are extruded plastic finished in metallic copper. But there's more perfidy than we thought. After four hours of calling nearly every medical examiner on the Eastern seaboard, we're pretty sure a four pound fish falling 22 ft would indeed kill somebody. So, j'accuse, Chodorow. You SO CAN possibly be killed. —josh

4:09 PM ON MON APR 9 2007
BY JOSH
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Latest by benmaimon: Salmon of injected plastic molding. Sounds like the nova at Zabar's.... more

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Wild Salmon: Chodorow Does Fish

In the same cavernous space that held the inappropriately named English is Italian (turns out English is the New Failure), Jeffrey Chodorow's newest restaurant Wild Salmon opens to the public today, Good Friday. Last night, So-So Thursday, we tried it out. It seems to be a Chodorow signature these days to have weird whatnots hanging from the ceiling. Instead of Kobe Club's swords, Wild Salmon features a school of 249 copper injection-mold salmon hanging by fishing line from the ceiling. Caught in the wild race upstream, the mildly abstracted fish bring to mind gilded spermatazoa. One is surprised not to find a giant ovum on one end of the restaurant. more »

2:56 PM ON FRI APR 6 2007
BY JOSH
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Latest by chameleonz: looking at the menu I would guess that 90% of the fish is being shipped from the west coast and... more

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Chodorow v. Bruni: The Rematch

Restaurateur Jeffrey Chodorow and Times food critic Frank Bruni have mad cow beef. Think of it as Suge Knight v. P. Diddy without guns or any sort of street cred. Ever since Bruni flayed Choad's Kobe Club, the two have been in a cat fight—well, mostly it's been Choad on Brundle, with the latter disdaining the former. But Chodorow is opening up Wild Salmon on April 6th, the latest avatar in the space where English is Italian died the death of a thousand cuts. There's a new (unheard of) chef from Seattle, Charles Ramseyer—and a chance for the feud to dissolve! On the other hand, there's the chance for it to escalate, something we would love to see. Bruni has three options: love it, hate it, ignore it. Each action has its own opposite and not at all equal reaction. Here's our quick flow chart explaining. more »

3:12 PM ON FRI MAR 30 2007
BY JOSH
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Latest by firebrand: Karion - Ray's is pretty touristy, but granted, where the fruits of the sea are concerned it's not half bad.... more

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Frank Bruni Does It In Hotels

Today's Dining section of the Times stars food critic Frank Bruni's review of room service during a week spent in hotels. There are questions, and there are answers. There are answers that look like questions. There are also significant references to Bruni-hating chef Jeffrey Chodorow, which remind us that the chef is implicated in the McNally-Gansevoort Meatpacking wars. We retreated into the warm confusion of a group IM chat to get to the bottom of it all. more »

1:47 PM ON WED MAR 14 2007
BY CHOIRE
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Latest by whiskeybaby: The name of the server in the top photo with the story is Bryan Woody. Snigger. ... more

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Jeffrey Chodorow's Current Mood: Frazzled

You know, it's only been a week since his vow to destroy Frank Bruni, but restaurateur Jeffrey Chodorow has already proven that he can blog like the pros. more »

12:06 PM ON THU MAR 1 2007
BY BALK
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Bounty On Bruni Continues To Grow

In covering the recent Jeffrey Chodorow-Frank Bruni feud, The New Yorker's Lauren Collins reported that "Chodorow said that his next restaurant will have a Pacific Northwest theme, and added that he was offering a trip to Seattle to any employee who blocks Bruni from its premises." Today's Post ups the ante, as Braden Keil quotes the disgruntled restaurateur:"I'm telling my staff that the first person to recognize Bruni at any of my restaurants will be given a free trip for two to the Caribbean." Whether this change of prize is a result of confused reporting or merely bluster on Chodorow's part (calls to all parties involved were unmade as of our post time) we look forward to the inevitable moment when Jeffrey declares that "I will buy a villa in Tuscany for the first person who brings me Frank Bruni's giant midsection on a platter." more »

11:10 AM ON TUE FEB 27 2007
BY BALK
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Latest by Greasy Thumb Guzik: Frank should consult with the Kucz on the best plastic surgeons in town so he can visit anonymously.... more

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Remainders: The Bruni-Chodorow Feud Smolders

  • Steven Johnson deconstructs David Brooks' insane, insane, insane Sunday Times column on hipster parents. (Insane!) He thinks Brooks has never listened to Sufjan Stevens. [StevenBerlinJohnson]
  • Our West Coast cousins live-blogged all 400 hours of the Oscars. God help them. [Defamer]
  • Former NYT restaurant critic Mimi Sheraton sides with Frank Bruni in his kerfuffle with Jeffrey Chodorow. [Slate]
  • And Bruni tells the New Yorker: "I totally understand that he's disappointed in the Kobe Club review, but I can assure you--I can assure him--that it's an utterly honest, if ultimately subjective, assessment." [TNY]
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    6:25 PM ON MON FEB 26 2007
    BY DOREE
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    Latest by SidHudgens: You know what is also "an utterly honest assesment?" The fact that Frank Bruni doesn't take the Times at home,... more

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    Media Bubble: Who's The Next Tiny Keller?

  • Who will succeed Bill Keller as Times executive editor: Jill Abramson or Dean Baquet? Get set for the inevitable Hillary-Obama comparisons. Either way, oddly, the real job worth having seven years from now will be digital fella Jon Landman's. [WWD]
  • Doesn't anyone want to make a deal with Google/YouTube? [MediaPost]
  • Jeffrey Chodorow shelled out $80,000 for the ad denouncing Frank Bruni. That kind of money buys three steaks at the Kobe Club! [NYS]
  • Ron Burkle to shed some of his Wild Oats. Hahaha, get it? [NYP]
  • New chairman at Dow Jones. [E&P;]
  • Looks like Fox News' crappy right wing comedy show did about exactly as well as Comedy Central's crappy Sarah Silverman show. Our theory? People will watch pretty much anything. [CCInsider]
  • Times Book Review not exactly busting its ass to find ladies and minorities. Maybe they could get a few reviews out of Baquet and Ambramson. [Harvard Crimson]
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    9:33 AM ON THU FEB 22 2007
    BY BALK
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    Latest by Seerauber Jenny: @JupiterPluvius: Thank you, JP. I figured the lawsuit went nowhere. But I have to go look up his... more

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    Remainders: Jeffrey Chodorow Will Destroy You

  • The beef (sorry) between Jeffrey Chodorow and the NYT's Frank Bruni claims another victim, and gets even weirder. [Eater]
  • Scary, scary painted cats. [Paper]
  • How Rudy Giuliani could have a credible conversion to right-wingdom, as per Grover Norquist. [The Politicker]
  • The next NY Fashion Week switches dates to avoid clashing with Rosh Hashanah. [WWD via Fashionista]
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    6:20 PM ON WED FEB 21 2007
    BY DOREE
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    Jeffrey Chodorow Declares War On Frank Bruni

    Two weeks ago Times restaurant critic Frank Bruni reviewed Kobe Club, the newest highly-contrived chowhouse from restaurateur/felon/Rocco DiSpirito co-star Jeffrey Chodorow. The Brunster did not find favor with the place, granting it zero stars and noting that "it presents too many insipid or insulting dishes at prices that draw blood from anyone without a trust fund or an expense account." Today Chodorow strikes back, taking out a full-page ad in the back of the Dining section (click to enlarge) that rambles on in crazy-person tiny type about how Bruni is out to get him and ends with this inevitable warning:
    In the interest of fairness, I am introducing my personal blog, which will be a compilation of my food-related experiences and musings and a special section entitled Following Frank and After Adam, in which I will make a follow-up visit to the restaurants they write about for the purpose of reviewing their reviews. My blog will appear at www.chinagrillmgt.com/blog/. My friends in the restaurant business have warned me that there will be further retaliation against me for speaking up. So be it.
    Wow, could this get any more fun? Watch yourself, Frank; Jeffrey's been in the joint. They handle things differently there. more »

    8:53 AM ON WED FEB 21 2007
    BY BALK
    11,835 views, 31 comments

    Latest by phil anderson: Because Momofuku is, or sorry, was, Chinese.... more

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    Kobe Club Enters Douchebag Restaurant Hall of Fame

    The supercool dudes at UrbanDaddy, who totally get just as much play now as they did in their Psi Upsilon days -- you better believe it, bra! --hipped us to the opening of a new restaurant from noted felon/reality show character Jeffrey Chodorow. Like many things that UrbanDaddy hips us to, it's kind of a perfect storm of bankery douche clich s. Checklist:
  • "soft opened" last week
  • Girl drinks engineered to appeal to dudes: "Blonde Velvet (champagne with craft-brewed ale and half-and-half) or, if the night's going really well, a Death by Whiskey (enough said)"
  • "19th century izakaya meets LES speakeasy meets premium meat" located in, ah, Midtown
  • "flights" of Wagyu beef
  • "half-bottle service and platinum Monopoly and backgammon"
  • "2,000 dangling samurai swords"
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    5:45 PM ON THU NOV 30 2006
    BY EMILY
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    Latest by Doctor Barnett: Please, never stop making fun of UrbanDouchy. I intended to lead this charge myself, but got distracted. And would have... more