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Posted Apr. 24, 2008,
Eight Items or Less: Kate Nash Played at Barneys, Bowery Ballroom Named Best Club and Elletaria Tied to Jimi Hendrix
By Gary Pini
1. Thanks to Loomstate, Sundance Channeland Barneys for the invite to their Earth Day Kate Nash concert on Tuesday! (photo via Guest of a Guest)
2. The Feds ordered a northern California brewer to stop using his hometown's name on his beer's bottle caps. The name of the town is Weed, California, and the caps used to say "Try Legal Weed."
3. According to Media Life magazine, nerdic is the fastest growing language in Europe. AKA "tech-speak," nerdic allows people to communicate across borders and added 100 new words last year. For example: "egosurfing" (verb) means surfing the web to find your own name.
4. Best rock club? Rolling Stone says: "Perfect sound, clear sight lines and zero attitude make the Bowery Ballroom the best place to see a show in Manhattan."
5. After several food critics reviewed new Manhattan dining spot Elettaria this week and all mentioned the location's (33 Eighth Street) vague relationship to Jimi Hendrix, we launched our own investigation. According to New York Songlines, the "first floor and basement of that address were Joe Heller's 8th Wonder, a groovy 1960s club that hosted bands like Vanilla Fudge and Cutis Knight & the Squires (featuring Jimi Hendrix). Upstairs was Psychedelic Solution Gallery." Hendrix' Electric Lady recording studio was across the street.
6. Wal-Mart-owned retail giant Sam's Club is limiting sales of 20 pound bags of rice to four bags per customer per visit.
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Posted Mar. 17, 2008,
Elletaria Is Yummy, Mario-Batali-Approved
By Kim Hastreiter
I was walking my dog Thursday night when I ran into my friend and neighbor Mario Batali on Eighth Street who was just coming from dinner with his son Leo. He told me that he'd just had a fantastic meal in our neighborhood at a new restaurant on Eighth Street called Elettaria (right near MacDougal). In case you were wondering, Elettaria is a type of cardamom seed, which makes sense, as the chef Akhtar Nawab serves up the most amazing Indian inspired fusion cuisine. (like the most aromatic foie gras Ive ever had and a divine cumin scented bavette) And how excited we should be to have such a great addition to our nabe. I trust Mario implicitly (he's my favorite chef in the world!) and so I called immediately, reserved a table for dinner and he was right. This place is really, really great with a kind of cozy atmosphere and cute, nice staff. It's hip (but not trendy), and you can watch Akhtar cooking super, amazingly delicious food in his open kitchen while his partner Noel runs around trying to keep the packed spot on track. It only opened two weeks ago but word is travelling fast and now it's kind of hard to get a table unless it's at 11 at night. But trust me (and Mario) -- this place is really, really good.
Photo from Eater