Pictured: Fluke Sashimi, Poppy Seeds, Chives, Spicy Buttermilk. Coddled Egg with Sous Vide Onions, Sweet Potato Puree, Osetra Caviar, Potato Chips, Parsley by Kathryn Yu It's the law of supply and demand -- if something is hard to get, everyone wants it. This especially applies to Momofuku Ko, the latest spot from chef-superstar David Chang. There's no secret handshake or phone number needed to get in (in fact, there's no phone), just an internet......

Despite Meatopia IV's downright pagan theme, Slaughter of the Innocents, which involved spit roasted kid goat and suckling pig as well as the consumption of copious amounts of other young animal flesh, the good lord chose to spare the soul of Mr. Cutlets, aka Josh Ozersky, and the band of meat-crazed revelers that came out Tuesday night to Water Taxi Beach to celebrate Josh's 40th birthday. Meatopia has grown to be something of the......

LAist is experimenting with blogging dates from J-Date, but finds the best men are found offline. Some date vicariously online and that is one reason why porn is big -- really freaking big -- so they ask if they should cover XXX since the heart of it lays in the city's San Fernando Valley. A writer grapples with her food porn photography obsession, another gets censored on Flickr, one gets scooped by the LA......

Off the Broiler gets an early peek at Marco Canora and Paul Greico's Insieme, complete with excellent food porn. Only have 36 hours in NYC? Love wine? Dr. Vino has got the perfect itinerary for you, including stops at not-to-be-missed wine bars, wine shops, restaurants, and even a "vinotherapy" spa. The boys from Thrillist serve up some boozy all-you-can-drink brunch options. Grub Street fuels the rumor mill surrounding an upcoming collaboration between Drew Nieporent and......

- Finally! Banh mi sandwiches in Midtown. But are they any good, and are they worth the $7.50 a pop? Midtown Lunch readers chime in with their thoughts. - The newly re-opened Blind Tiger is opening for brunch this weekend at 11:30 a.m. After Monday their new regular hours will be 11:30 a.m. until 4:00 a.m, and the kitchen will stay open until 2:00 a.m. In addition, they're having a grand re-opening bash on Monday,......

- Due to a crappy cable set-up we don’t get this, but apparently people are taking a strong shine to Daniel Boulud’s new show. - A positive word about Craftsteak, with requisite food porn. It is our hunch that this spot has improved from the initial impressions most pros got. Feels like time for a test drive. - When we heard about it during William Tigertt’s posts skepticism was the first natural response. Mind you,......

As the weather gets cooler, we find ourselves inexplicably drawn to daydreams of cooking up large batches of soups, stews, and chilis and baking warm loaves of bread (baguettes, cornbread, banana bread -- whatever, really). It's that time of year when nesting begins in earnest for many of us. This weekend, we made a dinner that we felt perfectly captured the transition from summer to fall: a butternut squash and sage risotto topped with seared......

Bringing you a roundup of recent reviews across the food blogs: - Jason Perlow gives us a close look at the inner workings of Momofuku's Ssäm Bar at Off the Broiler, including the menu. - Augieland and Snack bring on the menus and food porn from L’Atelier de Joel Robuchon. - Foodite presents the Nobu vs. Morimoto omakase smackdown. - Mona's Apple visits Blau Gans, the Clean Plate Club heads to 'ino, and Restaurant Girl......

If you like food as much as Gothamist does, you might get a kick out of the NYC Cuisine group on flickr. Want to see what the offerings at the Shake Shack look like? Take a look. Want to see pictures from Katz's Deli? Mmm, pastrami. For whatever reason, people love taking pictures of their food -- there's also a general food porn group, but you can just look at the NYC subset if you......

The Whole Foods Market Cookbook by Steve Petusevsky (Clarkson Potter, 2002) When it comes to food, Gothamist doesn't believe in one-stop shopping. We have various places we go to get our favorite (and sometimes hard-to-find) items. Fresh, local produce? Definitely the Greenmarket. Spices, olives, cheeses? Gotta be Sahadi's. Quick, basic supplies? The corner grocery. Bulk grains? The local "health" supermarket. So when Austin-based Whole Foods Market came to Union Square (after earlier NYC locations at......

People have been buzzing expectantly for months about the new 50,000 square-foot Union Square Whole Foods store, which opened this morning at 8 a.m. amid great fanfare, but without seeing the place it was hard to imagine what all the fuss was about. Sure, it's nice to have a good food store around, but there are three others within two blocks, all of which have "gourmet" and "healthy" items and a wide selection. The one......

Hey There, Cupcake!: 35 Yummy Fun Cupcake Recipes For All Occasions by Clare Crespo (Melcher Media, 2004) Gothamist's fondness for cupcakes is well known and well documented. And while one might imagine that there couldn't possibly be anything new on the cupcake front, Gothamist is happy to report that there are amazingly delicious frontiers to conquer. Because while anyone with a couple bucks in their pocket can drop by at Magnolia or Sugar Sweet Sunshine......

This weekend, if you find yourself tired of partying and you just want to kick back, why not invite some friends over and watch Iron Chef America, where American chefs Bobby Flay, Wolfgang Puck, and Mario Batali go head-to-head with Iron Chefs Masaharu Morimoto and Hiroyuki Sakai? It's is wall-to-wall Iron Chef action, with episodes shown Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, which has the Tag Team Finale that, in finale tradition, has an unexpected twist.......