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12/17/09
The weekend prefers to speak off-the-record.
Espana
Socarrat Spawns a Wine Bar
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.
- 411:
- Socarrat Bar de Vinos, 261 W. 19th St (btwn 7th and 8th Ave), 212-462-2244
Face Time
A Wet Shave at Tommy Guns
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.
- 411:
- Tommy Guns, mention UD when making appt, 138 Ludlow St, 212-477-1151 or email here
Road Trip
Fleisher's Begins Meat Deliveries
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.
- 411:
- $100 minimum, at New Amsterdam Market, Sun, 11 am-4 pm, order at 845-338-6666 or here
Porchetta
Maialino Does Breakfast
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.
- 411:
- Maialino, 2 Lexington Ave (at 21st St), 212-777-2410
Fresh Test
Tuesday Night Live
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.
- 411:
- Sushi UO, 151 Rivington St (btwn Clinton and Suffolk), 2nd floor, 212-677-5470
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