David Rees Reviews Soul Daddy | Beard Foundation Media Award Winners

MONDAY, MAY 9, 2011 Daily New York Food News from NYMag.com & MenuPages.com
The Chain Gang Soul Daddy Review: David Rees on America’s Next Great Restaurant "The first thing you notice is Soul Daddy’s interior; it is clean and bland and entirely without soul." Openings Indochine Team Takes Over Acme Space in Noho An opening is expected in early fall. Spot Check Mr. Big Wants Elaine’s to Become Steve’s But others say it's doing just fine, thank you. Openings Melt Bakery Expands, and Melt Shop Is the Future Know your Melts: one is an ice-cream-sandwich stand and the other is a grilled-cheese stand. Openings 900 Degrees Will Offer Neapolitan, Roman, and NYC Pies Next Week Plus: free-range New Zealand lamb pizza, anyone? Bullishit Ferran Adrià’s New Bar Gets ‘Reviewed’ by the Times And thus the I-Ate-at-El-Bulli-Piece torch is passed. Awards Eric Ripert, Alton Brown, and Others Take Home James Beard Foundation Media Awards The winners have been named. In the Magazine Platt Goes to Soho; the ‘Kitchen Debate’ Revisited Plus: The Robs get a recipe for lily-bulb bruschetta. Mediavore Chocolate Milk in Trouble; McDonald’s Gives Itself a Makeover Plus: a tale of trail-mix survival, and New Zealand reacts to the Double Down, all in our morning news roundup.		Shop-A-Matic »    Vulture Digest »    New York Travels »    Fashion Alert »    See all newsletters »     Subscribe to New York