NEW YORK CITY — Big names in New York City food were served up bad news this past week.
But eviction and health inspection shutdowns weren’t the only food happenings.
Patch’s tiny local newsroom was there to sift through the culinary highs and lows for our dear readers.
Check out the tastiest bites, and come back next week for more food news.
Celebrity chef and “Chopped” champion Madison Cowan has been chopped from his Brooklyn apartment.
A judge ordered Cowan to move out of his Boerum Hill apartment.
The eviction came after Cowan stopped paying rent in January 2020 on the $2,750-a-month one-bedroom. He previously fought other eviction attempts at the apartment.
Cowan told a judge he couldn’t afford to pay because his livelihood was seriously impacted by the pandemic.
“I couldn’t get a job,” he said, according to ABC7.
In better news, the Taste of Franklin Avenue Festival returned Saturday in Crown Heights.
The combined food and drink crawl raised money for local businesses and Seeds in the Middle, a charity that fights food insecurity.
Uptown Manhattan had a typically upbeat week for new restaurants.
Tramway Restaurant opened on the very Upper East Side spot where the renowned Greek eatery, Under The Bridge, once stood.
An esteemed pâtisserie — Aux Merveilleux de Fred — set up its third location in the city, also on the Upper East Side.
And the iconic Queens-based taco truck Birria-Landia geared up to open its latest Manhattan outpost on the Upper West Side.
Not all Uptown food news was good.
An Upper East Side kosher restaurant — Rothschild TLV — had its windows smashed.
And a pizza kiosk at Eataly along Broadway was ordered shut down by health inspectors because of violations, mostly related to access to handwashing, records show.
