This article appears in Spring 2021: Issue No. 61 of Edible Brooklyn.
Hong Thaimee on the Power of Resilience
EARLY SPRING, 2021
It’s not an ugly space that Thaimee LOVE, Hong Thaimee’s new West Village pop-up, is camping out in on Hudson Street. With its dramatically lit exposed-brick walls and plank shelving, it could be any sleek, aspirational restaurant designed within the last few years. Thaimee has imposed herself on the space copious flowers, a long banquet table loaded with Thai spices, chilis, grains, and herbs but this is a temporary perch. It became available when the previous restaurant here shuttered and vanished with all of its personal effects. Thaimee is thrilled that her landlord extended her lease through November.
This article appears in Spring 2021: Issue No. 65 of Edible Manhattan.
Hong Thaimee on the Power of Resilience
EARLY SPRING, 2021
It’s not an ugly space that Thaimee LOVE, Hong Thaimee’s new West Village pop-up, is camping out in on Hudson Street. With its dramatically lit exposed-brick walls and plank shelving, it could be any sleek, aspirational restaurant designed within the last few years. Thaimee has imposed herself on the space copious flowers, a long banquet table loaded with Thai spices, chilis, grains, and herbs but this is a temporary perch. It became available when the previous restaurant here shuttered and vanished with all of its personal effects. Thaimee is thrilled that her landlord extended her lease through November.
City Winery/Adam Pass [Official]
City Winery launches new COVID-19 holiday promotion
City Winery has been investing in a string of COVID-19 promotions at its new, massive flagship in Chelsea. In the fall, after the 32,000-square-foot space debuted at Pier 57, City Winery offered $50 rapid COVID-19 tests to indoor dining customers on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Now that indoor dining has been banned in NYC, the company has turned to offering a free COVID-19 test with the purchase of a case of wine as a holiday promotion.
In the first weekend of the promotion, about 50 people bought cases of wine and got a free test, City Winery founder and CEO Michael Dorf tells the