![]() ![]() Yubu, a small counter specializing in Korean fried tofu pockets, opened a second location over the weekend. In New York City, a handful of chefs are bringing more representation to the region, with restaurants serving corn tamales steamed in banana leaves, empanadas, and carimañolas, a stuffed yuca dish. There are some 210,000 Panamanians living in the United States, yet the Central American cuisine remains relatively unknown, according to the New York Times. “If I were to name this concept Pinky’s Vegan, how many people do you think would have been there?” she said last month. The burger counter with seven locations nationally sells sandwiches named the One Night Stand and the Hollywood Hooker, an attempt to reclaim those words and make vegan eating “sexy,” according to founder Pinky Cole. “I would not feel comfortable bringing, where they would be bombarded with these kinds of messages about women and sex,” one Park Slope parent told the New York Post. Slutty Vegan, the famed Atlanta burger chain that recently opened in Fort Greene, apparently has Brooklyn parents “squirming” over its unconventional branding. Parents are ‘squirming’ over Slutty Vegan (Google lists an October 26 opening date for the hotel.) The new spots include: Sake No Hana, a modern Japanese restaurant a rooftop bar called the Highlight Room the Fix, a lobby cafe and bar a piano lounge called Silver Lining and Loosie’s, a nightclub with an “early 2000s” vibe. The concepts will all be located in the forthcoming Moxy hotel on the Lower East Side, set to open in late October, according to Page Six. Tao Group, the international hospitality company behind Tao Downtown, Cathédrale, and other venues, is headed to the Lower East Side with five new restaurants and bars this fall.
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