Today’s “Fab 5”/ Selected NYCity Events – SUNDAY, OCT. 27, 2013
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‘The Next Level: East Side Access Photographs by Hiroyuki Suzuki’ (last day!)
Work is under way to create a connection for Long Island Rail Road trains at Grand Central Terminal. More than 50 of Hiroyuki Suzuki’s mostly black-and-white photographs of the underground project are on view at the museum’s Gallery Annex and Store, near the Station Master’s Office.” (NYT)
Grand Central Terminal,New York Transit Museum Gallery Annex and Store:
from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m./ FREE
(212) 878-0106, grandcentralterminal.com
NYC Food Film Festival 2013:
Farm to Film to Table & Matt Timms’ Green Chile Takedown
“The New York Food Film Festival goes out in a blaze of fiery green chiles as Takedown starter Matt Timms stops in to host one his signature food fights. 15 home cooks are handed 100 lbs of green chiles from New Mexico to cook up something special for the occasion. In addition to feasting on their concoctions, catch some short films about farmers in Long Island, the husband & wife team behind the Amagansett Sea Salt Co., and the cheese producers of Jasper Hill Farm in Vermont. And if all that isn’t enough to wet your whistle, La Newyorkina is supplying a dessert bar, a fine assortment of alcoholic beverages are being poured, and the winners of the festival’s film awards are to be announced. Proceeds from the closing night go to the Food Bank of New York City.” (Mindy Bond, Flavorpill)
THE FILMS
The Chile Film (La Sangre Rojo y Verde de Nuevo Mexico)
FarmTina
Growing Farmers
Letting Salt Just Be Salt: Amagansett Sea Salt Co.
Smoochie Sauce
The Northeast Kingdom
THE FOODS
Matt Timms Presents The Green Chile Takedown
15 Home Cooks + 100 lbs of Green Chiles from New Mexico + the one and only Matt Timms = HOT!
Plus a special dish from La Palapa and cool off with a special dessert bar by La Newyorkina featuring horchata ice cream and more!
A selection of drinks, including beers by Warsteiner, the exclusive imported beer of the 2013 NYC Food Film Festival and sustainable wines by Frei Brothers Reserve. Be sure to grab a drink from Rev at the Idle Hands In-theater Bar!
AMC Loews Village 7 at 5:30pm
BENEFITING THE FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY / TICKETS: $75
Festival tickets are all-inclusive of food, beverages and entry to film screenings.
BILL MCHENRY (last day!)
“The saxophonist has been a leading member of his generation since the early nineties, his strong sound and willingness to stretch stylistic boundaries garnering him considerable attention from peers and listeners alike. His quartet, documented on last year’s album, “La Peur du Vide,” draws much of its inventive focus from its brilliant drummer, the seventy-three-year-old Andrew Cyrille, an acclaimed avant-garde rhythm avatar of the nineteen-sixties.” (NewYorker mag)
Village Vanguard, 178 Seventh Avenue South, at 11th St., West Village,
At 8:30 and 10:30 p.m., $25 cover, with a one-drink minimum.
255-4037, villagevanguard.com
Matthew Bourne’s ‘Sleeping Beauty’ (through Nov. 3)
“Though best known for his all-male version of “Swan Lake,” Matthew Bourne has been reinventing the classics for years. Now “Sleeping Beauty,” set to the beloved Tchaikovsky score, has been given a new Bourne identity: cheeky humor, cartoonish sets and the occasionally goofy movement. But the man knows how to put on an entertaining show.” (Schaefer-NYT)
City Center, 131 West 55th St.
Wednesday and Friday at 8 p.m., Thursday at 7:30 p.m./$30 to $130.
(212) 581-1212, nycitycenter.org
CHRISTIAN MCBRIDE (last day!)
“The Fred Astaire of the acoustic bass, McBride makes his extraordinary playing look easy. He might be a great illusionist, but he’s accomplished something else that’s grand, too: he’s one of the few highly touted “young lions” of the nineties jazz scene to have made good on all his promise. His sharp mainstream trio includes the pianist Christian Sands.” (NewYorker mag)
Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, Jazz at Lincoln Center, 60th St./Broadway
At 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., $35 to $45 cover, with a $10 minimum
(212) 258-9595, jalc.org
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A PremierPub and 3 Good Eating places – West Village
Corner Bistro / 331 W. 4th St.
Sometimes you just need a beer and a burger. If so, Corner Bistro is the place you want. Located just outside the hip Meatpacking district, this corner bar and grill is decidedly unhip, but it’s not uncrowded, especially at night. Seems that everyone knows this place has one of the better burgers in town.
In the maze of streets known as the West Village, where West 4th intersects with West 12th (and West 11th, and West 10th, go figure), you will eventually find Corner Bistro on the corner of West 4th and Jane Street. An unassuming neighborhood tavern, it looks just like dozens of other taverns around town. The bartender tells me that the Corner Bistro will be celebrating it’s 50th anniversary next year. The well worn interior tells me that the place itself is much older.
Corner Bistro has outlasted many of those other taverns around town because they know how to keep it simple — just good burgers and beer, fairly priced. The classic bistro Burger is only $6.75, and should be ordered medium rare, which will be plenty rare for most folks. Actually, it will be a juicy, messy delight – make sure you have extra napkins. I like to pull up a stool and sit by the large front window in the afternoon, where I can rest my burger and beer on the shelf, and watch the Villagers walk by.
Corner Bistro seems to attract very different groups of patrons depending on time of day. While it’s crowded with locals in the evening, in the afternoon you hear different foreign languages, and watch groups of euro tourists wander in, led by their guidebooks and smartphones.
For the classic Bistro experience, order your burger with a McSorley’s draft, the dark preferably. This is the same beer that you can get over at the original McSorley’s in the East Village, the pub that claims to be the oldest continually operating bar in NYCity. The only difference is that this McSorley’s ale is served with a smile by the bartenders here. Or you can get a Sierra Nevada, Stella, or Hoegaarden on tap if you want to go upscale a bit. Either way this is a simple, but quality burger and beer experience that is just too rare these days (sorry for the pun).
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Website: cornerbistrony.com
Phone #: 212-242-9502
Hours: 11:30am-4am Mon-Sat; 12pm-4am Sun
Happy Hour: NO
Music: Juke Box
Subway: #1/2/3 to 14th St. (S end of platform)
Walk 2 blk W. on 13th St. to 8th Ave.; 1 blk S. on 8th Ave. to Jane St.
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