Erica | Monday, January 2, 2012 at 12:00PM 
Ok, now this shit is beginning to get a little ridiculous. It's like the Titanic is sinking out there and all the other restaurant owners left are now jumping overboard in the hopes that there *may* be some room in the lifeboat. It's a new year's apocalypse!
Erica | Monday, January 2, 2012 at 7:01AM 
original image: Elizabeth Hait, AOL
Man, I hope this one is true.
A FIPS reader alerted us that he has it on good authority that Marco Canora, of Hearth, Terroir and Terroir Tribeca fame, not to mention Iron Chef fame, cookbook writer fame and James Beard award nominee fame, is planning to open an outpost of his Terroir wine bar in the recently vacated Great Lakes space.
Terroir has received all sorts of awards including Best New Wine Bar from Time Out NY, Best Wine Bar from NY Magazine, "50 Best New Restaurants in the USA" from Travel & Leisure, as well as a 1 star rating from the New York Times.
Erica | Thursday, December 29, 2011 at 12:20AM 
UPDATE: This morn when we called Perch, the woman who answered said she had "no information." And several people in the comments mentioned that they called and were told it was not closing at all. However, we still have 3 separate, reliable sources, aside from the Twitter chatter, that say that they ARE closing for good. Guess we'll find out on Monday who's telling the truth (and for the record, I hope that they're not closing). In the meantime, go spend some money there just in case.
Man, the proverbial internet ink hasn't even yet dried on the sad list of Park Slope restaurants that have shuttered in 2011, and already we've got another one to add: Perch Cafe.
Apparently the folks at Perch are ringing in the new year by, uhm, closing.
Erica | Monday, December 19, 2011 at 1:30PM 
Does anyone else out there think that this choice of wallpaper, featuring big busted, sexy lingerie wearin hotties, at Dumplings-n-Things is a leetle bit bizarro?
Yeah, me neither.
PSlope WTF, eats Erica | Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 12:00AM 
By way of Gothamist comes word of a restaurant in London that apparently recently charged some chick and her 6-week old bebe a "tax" for simply breastfeeding her kid and taking up space with her gigantic SUV stroller.
"Natasha Young brought her six-week old son to Cosmo, a large chain restaurant in London, to breast-feed him. When she received her bill, there was a £3 (about $5) charge tacked on, reportedly because her stroller was taking up space."
Needless to say, this chick went bonkers, yelled "STOP THE PRESSES" and took her story to every news outlet that would listen to her whine and moan. At which point the restaurant apologized and explained that their "tax" is actually not for babies or strollers but for toddlers who eat some food, but not as much as kids who order meals.
Uhm, what!?
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