Wine, great food, and a wonderful environment. Terrior is a great choice for dates, or just to kick back and enjoy…

Terroir Tribeca

24 harrison st., New York

(212) 625-9463

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Bowery: Saxon + Parole has an elegant five-course meal in the works this New Year’s with whole grilled Maine lobster; Brussels sprout leaves with poached egg, toasted hazelnuts and truffle yuzu hollandaise; and foie gras and five-spice torchon, among others. The meal will run $120 a person, and guests who choose have no choice but to sit at the bar will be able to order the prix fixe items à la carte. [Grub Street]
East Village: Austrian boîte Edi & the Wolf will be hosting a New Year’s Eve Austrian-style feast for $95 per person, not including tax or tip. The five-course menu will come with a complimentary glass of Champagne and includes items like boucheron and fig salad, rosemary flatbread with pickled pearl onion and apple, and lamb loin with potato-leek puree and huckleberry sauce. [Grub Street]

Soho: Imperial No. Nine at the Mondrian Soho invites guests to join them in their sparkling glass greenhouse on New Year’s Eve for a decadent meal. It will include a choice of lobster cavatelli with chili flakes, parmesan, and black truffles; or dry-aged rib eye with mushroom fondue and potatoes gratin, as well as chocolates, truffles, and fruits for something sweet. They’ll have two seatings, one before 7:30 p.m. and another from 8:30 p.m. to midnight ($95 per person and $115 per person, respectively). Guests will also receive a complimentary glass of Champagne in the penthouse. [Grub Street]
West Village: In case you still haven’t figured out your plans for New Year’s Eve, Fatty ‘Cue has room for dinner. Once you’ve had your share of pig products and other barbecue treats, stick around for a late-night D.J. party from midnight to 4 a.m. Cash bar only, no cover. [Grub Street]
Zak Pelaccio and Co. sure know the importance of timing, because they’re also launching brunch this weekend. So for major fans of his Asian barbecue, you can join him for dinner to ring in New Year’s and nurse your hangover at brunch, with dishes like brisket hash, bacon and eggs, and tableside Bloody Marys with all the fixins’. [Grub Street]

Filed Under: neighborhood watch, edi & the wolf, fatty ‘cue, imperial no. nine, saxon + parole

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Her morning after glee …

Only Gwyenth Paltrow could provoke us to write one last hangover remedy post. After all, she’s researched the topic so maturely on Goop that we feel compelled to pay attention. She even has a hair of the dog recipe, which is basically a rich girl’s Bloody Mary, but sounds just right. Elsewhere on Goop, she points to Deepak Chopra quotes and encourages us to buy artsy MoMA apps. [Goop]

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Filed Under: goop, hangover help

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It’s 4 p.m., and that means it’s time to play Two for Eight. We just asked ten restaurants the best time they can squeeze a couple in for dinner; you need only make your chosen reservation. (As always, we make the calls but don’t guarantee the results.) Today: Notable Italian.

A Voce Columbus (Menu)
212-823-2523
Two for eight? Yes

Babbo (Menu)
212-777-0303
Two for eight? No
Best available: Fully booked

Ciano (Menu)
212-982-8422
Two for eight? No
Best available: 9 p.m.

Del Posto (Menu)
212-497-8090
Two for eight? No
Best available: Fully booked

Locanda Verde (Menu)
212-925-3797
Two for eight? No
Best available: Fully booked

Maialino (Menu)
212-777-2410
Two for eight? No
Best available: 8:30 p.m.

Osteria Morini (Menu)
212-965-8777
Two for eight? No
Best available: 9:45 p.m.

Porsena (Menu)
212-228-4923
Two for eight? Yes

Scarpetta (Menu)
212-691-0555
Two for eight? No
Best available: 5:30 p.m.

Sfoglia (Menu)
212-831-1402
Two for eight? No
Best available: 9:30 p.m.

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We learned some fun, weird things this lazy holiday week. For example, it’s more dangerous to walk when drunk than it is to drive when drunk. And did you know that people are so desperate for caffeine that they want to inhale it like air, skipping the joys of coffee and soda altogether? For more year-end food randomness, check out the James Weird Awards, straight ahead.

• A 19-year-old suspected of stealing a woman’s bicycle and breaking into a second woman’s home told Chicago police the last thing he remembers is drinking marshmallow vodka. [HuffPo]

• A publisher in Chile has been ordered by the country’s Supreme Court to pay $125,000 to thirteen people who were badly burned by hot oil after they attempted to make churros based on a recipe published in the La Tercera newspaper. Judges ruled that following the recipe exactly as published resulted in a high probability of the churros exploding when the oil reached the recommended temperature. [AP]

• Wendy’s marked its return to the Japanese market this week with a new premium menu, featuring a $17 foie gras burger, a truffle and porcini grilled chicken sandwich, and an avocado wasabi burger — items that might sound appetizing if they weren’t on a fast-food menu. [Eataku via Eatocracy/CNN]

• An Edy’s ice cream delivery truck tipped over on an interstate on-ramp in Indiana, spilling 40,000 pounds of the sweet stuff across the road. Cleanup efforts took six hours. [HuffPo]

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Filed Under: the james weird awards, edy’s, wendy’s

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Named after a small, largely unknown, area near DUMBO, Vinegar Hill House can be pretty hard to find. It’s quite a…

Vinegar Hill House

72 Hudson Ave, Brooklyn

(718) 522-1018

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They’re seconds away.

So yeah, it’s now a million billion percent true: The 89-year-old, third-generation restaurant, Rocco Ristorante, is a thing of the past. The Torrisi boys — who can fortunately pay the rent and then some — are moving on in. The official closing date for Rocco’s will be January 2. [Jeremiah's Vanishing New York]

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We’ve all been there.

Wednesday. Or so says a reporter, who took his empty stomach and hot blonde to Costco to find out the best day for hungry vultures who prefer free samples of pig-in-the-buns to, say, a nice meal sitting down at home. He says, “There were 20 samples that Wednesday, including: flavored mashed potatoes, hummus, Oscar Mayer bacon, salami, whitefish, Stacy’s Simply Bruschetta and lots of cheeses, including Cambozola, 3-year-old cheddar and Couronne Brie.” One major letdown? A saleslady wouldn’t spoon-feed him. Such is life. [NYP]

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Filed Under: free eats, costco

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Without a doubt a great value prix fixe considering what we got and what city we were in but something tells me I had…

ChikaLicious Dessert Bar

203 E 10th St, New York

(212) 995-9511

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As for my much-anticipated situation dark cookie, well, it didn’t rock my world but I did enjoy every mouthful.

Dessert Club, ChikaLicious

204 E 10th st, New York

(212) 475-0929

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The best vanilla soft serve ice cream I’ve ever had! The divey looking location is unassuming and all the desserts…

Dessert Club, ChikaLicious

204 E 10th st, New York

(212) 475-0929

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Romera, Chris Cannon, and Williamsburg high in shock value.

Eater’s list of 2011’s best restaurant “surprises” raises a few good questions. Like, how could Chris Cannon abandon us just like that? Why wasn’t Romera as easy to hate as we had hoped it would be? Who would have thought that Isa would taste more like heaven than hipster? One opinion held that Per Se was shockingly bad, while another found astoundingly good onion soup somewhere unknown. Personally, we’re just shocked at how unshocking the year actually was. [Eater NY]

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Filed Under: shocking, chris cannon, romera

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