The weekend prefers to speak off-the-record.
Maybe you're still reeling from your last run-in with Socarrat's heaping piles of sizzling paella deliciousness, but they request permission to help you wash it down with a huge new armada of Spanish wine. Socarrat Bar de Vinos, its new adjacent offshoot, opens today, promising "a bullfight in your mouth." Okay, we made that up, but we're pretty excited anyway.
LES barbershop Tommy Guns introduces classic wet shaves, for those times when even the 38-microblade Machismo Vortex razor fails you. They're offering a free shave to the first five guys who make a reservation on Saturday or Sunday. Limit one per customer, so don't try coming back later with a fake mustache.
Sometimes you need a ton of meat on short notice. So it's good to have a meat guy who delivers. Fleisher's deliveries to your door won't begin until after the holidays, but order by noon Saturday and you can pick it up yourself downtown on Sunday. Imagine the looks on the children's faces when you bring home $126 worth of kielbasa.
Danny Meyer's Gramercy trattoria has taken things one meal at a time, until now serving only dinner. Monday it will add breakfast, with items such as fried egg and porchetta ciabatta sandwiches, and ricotta pancakes. Lunch arrives in January, at which point Maialino will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.
Chef David Bouhadana's hard-to-find LES sushi spot announces "Tuesday Night Live," in which a diverse community of octopus, abalone, pen shell, scallop orange clams and surf clams meet their untimely demise right in front of your eyes, before finding their way to your mouth. Management warns that there may be some twitching.
