Crains New York - June 18, 2012 - (Page 27)

flickr.com/chemex INSATIABLE CRITIC Gael Greene Calliope plays a French tune JUNE 25-JULY 1 CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27 Hodgson Russ presents NEW YORK SUMMER TAX SEMINAR SERIES: STATE AND CITY TAXATION OF FLOW-THROUGH ENTITIES, a seminar for CPAs, CFOs, corporate counsels and other financial professionals to get up to date on state and federal tax issues from industry experts. Two CPE credits are given to attendees. The workshop takes place from 8:30 a.m. to 10:15 a.m., with registration and continental breakfast beginning at 8 a.m. at the Harvard Club, 35 W. 44th St. Tickets are $55. Online registration is available at www.hodgsonruss.com/Home/ News_Seminars. For more information, call (212) 751-4300 or email mpickering@hodgsonruss.com. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27 The Overseas Private Investment Corp. presents OPIC EXPANDING HORIZONS 2012, a workshop for small businesses entering international markets. OPIC staff will be available at the event to discuss such topics as political risk insurance, small and medium enterprise finance and support for renewable energy and clean technologies. The E Laid-back East Village bistro features farmhouse fare buck ennis WHAT HE’S READING FORMER MAYOR David Dinkins keeps his schedule full with work on charitable boards, a professorship at Columbia and a Saturdaymorning talk show on WLIB-AM. Recently he’s been reading My Song, a memoir by Harry Belafonte that isn’t just about his life as an entertainer. “I have the good fortune of having known him for a long time,” Mr. Dinkins said. “The first couple of chapters, he talks about his trip to Mississippi [during Freedom Summer, 1964], arriving in the dead of night, Klu Kluxers out there with guns and torches. And how he got Sidney Poitier to go with him, and Sidney said, ‘Harry, don’t call me anymore!’ ” The first—and only—AfricanAmerican mayor in New York City history, Mr. Dinkins is also at work on a memoir. “It’s not just political,” he said. “It’s from when I was a little boy. The working title is Gorgeous Mosaic.” —MATTHEW FLAMM ric Korsh and his wife, Ginevra Iverson, had been talking about another place of their own since their Restaurant Eloise in Sebastopol, Calif., didn’t quite work out. It would be French, mostly serious farmhouse French, but fun and laid-back. And it is. Indeed, Calliope in the ever-soslightly dressed-up space that was Belcourt is almost too laid-back tonight. Chunky candles are burned low on the deserted communal table, and the place is nearly empty on its eighth night. Our threesome doesn’t mind. We’re sipping $12 classic cocktails—Negronis and a Manhattan—taking bites of spring radish from a basket with buttery toasted bread alongside. It’s deliberately a very small menu to open, but larded with charcuterie, not typical East Village fare. Gleaming thin slices of tête de porc scattered with circlets of onion and parsley have us in their thrall. Bits of pickle play an acid note. Beef tongue is thin-sliced, too, tender and bland with a sharp onion sweetness. I use a furl to wipe up a big dab of sauce gribiche:chopped herbs and pickle in a faintly mustardy, vinegary mayolike emulsion.Sauce gribiche? When was the last time you saw that classic on a menu that isn’t Daniel Boulud’s? Makes me wish the evening’s special pork-and-rabbit terrine wasn’t quite so firm and tight. Charcuterie is Korsh’s department. Pastry and pastas are Iverson’s. The perfect pâte brisée of the Provençal tomato tart—swathed with the tang of cooked-down onions and jeweled with oil-cured olives and a hit of lemon zest under a toss of mâche—is all the advertisement the two have had time for in the intense countdown to opening. No friends and family. No media preview. No press release. Suddenly the door was simply opened. They wanted Belcourt as soon as they knew it was for sale. It had been mostly French, too, and, as Korsh notes, “it had good bones and it didn’t need much work.” As soon as they got approval for a liquor license, the lawyer negotiated the deal and Korsh was on his knees scrubbing the floor. Both parents stepped in to take care of their kids.The accents of new paint are French Laundry blue. Given the exuberance and flavor punch of Iverson’s mascarpone agnolotti in a lush stew of sweet and sour braised lamb, her properly lumpy Swiss chard ricotta malfatti CULTURAL EVENT EXUBERANT: Mascarpone agnolotti 84 E. Fourth St. (212) 260-8484 www.calliopenyc.com CALLIOPE CUISINE Farmhouse European PRICE RANGE Entrées $17-$35 SERVING Dinner, weekend brunch RESERVATIONS Doesn’t hurt NOISE LEVEL Modest early on I can’t wait to return. I will definitely go back. I’ll let them simmer awhile. NO HATS Never again. FRIDAY, JUNE 29 Join FRIENDS OF THE FILIPINO INDEPENDENT FILM INDUSTRY for a screening of Busong (Palawan Fate). The award-winning movie was named one of the 10 most notable Asian films of 2011 by The Wall Street Journal. It focuses on the concept of fate, or instant karma, and explores the effects of people’s disrespect toward nature and their fellow humans. The screening will take place at the Quad Cinema, 34 W. 13th St., at 1:30 p.m. Tickets are $11. For more information or to buy tickets, visit www.quadcinema .com/proddir/prod/124/1301?Redirect URL=/proddir/archive/480//rating/0/50/ type=Feature or call (212) 255-2243. —eva saviano Pick of the week To view Crain’s classified events listings, go to www.crainsnewyork.com/events seems pale and bland.The whole fish of the evening—a tiny turbot replacing the fluke listed on the menu— comes paved with a lawn of parsley and herbs. The waiter carries it back for the chef to debone, and I’m afraid it’s too cooked for my taste. But the roast chicken breast is amazingly moist, even for a darkmeat lover like me. The menu doesn’t boast, but it’s an Amish airchilled bird because the chef-owners are hung up on product perfection. The slow-cooked leg has disappeared into the accompanying stuffed cabbage along with celery root and carrots steamed in a parsley broth.Triangles of carrot on the plate are cooked through. That’s French, too. And don’t overlook the gratins: a new menu category for me. Nutty, crusty, buttery potato and Swiss chard gratin arrives in a cast-iron terrine. Of course, we’ll take the leftovers home for breakfast. Rhubarb-and-strawberry gratin is rich and wonderfully custardy, but it makes me long for a taste of pure rhubarb. The rustic apple tart could have more apple flavor, too. And the baba au rhum fan at our table likes a boozier baba—though this one is clearly just out of the oven. Perhaps Diplomático Rum should count extra. Copyright © 2012 by Gael Greene. Syndicated by www.insatiable-critic.com. Which New York Businesses Are Defining the Word Success? On June 25th, Crain’s New York Business will announce the 50 fastest growing New York companies in our new “Fast 50” print and online feature. New York is the city that never sleeps and neither do the businesses that call it home. Innovation constantly occurs as new industries, such as digital media, emerge and established companies devise new growth strategies. To find out which businesses made the cut, pick up a copy of the June 25th issue, or visit crainsnewyork.com/fast50. For advertising opportunities, please contact Trish Henry at (212) 210-0711 or thenry@crainsnewyork.com. June 18, 2012 | Crain’s New York Business | 27 newscom THE WEEK AHEAD workshop takes place from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Hilton New York, 1335 Sixth Ave. Tickets are $50. To get more information or to register, call (510) 628-0345. NETWORKING RECEPTIONS TUESDAY, JUNE 26 Join Networking for Professionals for SHAKERS AND STIRRERS NYC, for an evening of mingling. The organizers will email participants a list of the confirmed attendees to help them follow up with new contacts. The event will take place at O’Brien’s Irish Pub and Restaurant, 134 W. 46th St., from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Preordered tickets are $10 for members and $15 for nonmembers. At the door, all tickets will cost $20. Tickets include complimentary snacks. To purchase tickets or to get more information, visit http://www.networkingforprofessionals .com/eventlistings.php?event=SSNY. http://www.networkingforprofessionals.com/eventlistings.php?event=SSNY http://www.hodgsonruss.com/Home/News_Seminars http://www.hodgsonruss.com/Home/News_Seminars http://www.calliopenyc.com http://www.quadcinema.com/proddir/pro/124/1301?RedirectURL=/proddir/archive/480/rating/0/50/type=Feature http://www.crainsnewyork.com/events http://www.crainsnewyork.com/fast50 http://www.crainsnewyork.com/fast50 http://www.insatiable-critic.com

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Crains New York - June 18, 2012

Crains New York - June 18, 2012
Contents
Ad Index
Why won’t the NYPD give up world’s priciest parking lot?
Wall St.’s unsung $35 million chief exec
Perks on parade: Why CBS’ Les Moonves got a $500,000 screening room
Big investors are going bonkers for apartment buildings
Pencil exec makes his mark
For small firms,Facebook is just too big
Aereo CEO sends cable TV a message
Calliope plays a French tune

Crains New York - June 18, 2012