• Di Fara sells the city's most expensive slice of pizza. (The price was just raised to $5.) A symptom of the recession? A sign the recession is over? Something else? Now even the mayor has been forced to weigh in on the subject. [NYT]
• The Oyster Bar in Grand Central has lost its liquor license. [Eater]
• Closings:…
June 29 @ 2:30pm At Philippe with Santigold eating lunch. They are sitting at the best table in the house and loads of paps are outside. [Submit your own Gawker Stalker sightings to stalker@gawker.com]
• Is Amy Sacco's Bungalow 8 about to broke? That's what some former staffers claim, who say they haven't been paid in weeks now. [Gawker]
• Ward III, a new "saloon" by the team involved with Macao, The Odeon, and Grace—and decorated with Wakiya cast-offs—opens on Friday. [Thrillist]
• A roundup of spots that have…
• Christian Delouvrier, formerly of Lespinasse and Alain Ducasse, is back from Florida and is now behind the stove at David Bouley's Secession. [NYT]
• Jeffrey Chodorow's Kobe Club in East Hampton won't be back this summer. Mediocre, overpriced food will be: It's becoming a branch of Philippe. [NYT]
• As you've…
• A day after the city asked for bids on the Tavern on the Green space comes word the restaurant's been sued for failing to pay its meat supplier. [Eater]
• Soho's much-maligned Delicatessen has a new menu courtesy of its new consultants, club owner David Rabin and chef Franklin Becker. [GS]
• Embattled Soho eatery…
• Ties are no longer required at the '21' Club. [Eater]
• The team behind Mansion is filing for bankruptcy; promoter Joey Morrissey will be taking over the space and renaming it M2. [P6]
• Kurve has five days to pay $52,253 in back rent or it faces eviction. [Eater]
• Martha Stewart says East 10th Street is the new…
You may have heard that the Upper East Side restaurant Philippe found itself in a dicey position today when someone told Page Six that staffers there have been relieving their boredom by watching security camera footage of celebrities like Diddy and Tom Brady cavorting in the restaurant's private rooms. We hope you…
The good news is that there's a possible Gisele Bundchen/Tom Brady sex tape floating around Manhattan. The bad news? Only a handful of restaurant staffers at New York's highbrow Philippe restaurant have seen it (for now, at least). Thanks to a "security camera" watching over the eatery's precious downstairs wine…
