Want to impress your guests with some unique holiday appetizers? Todd English will show you how with a cooking demonstration at The Plaza Food Hall this Thursday. The chef will be in the kitchen making dishes like lobster popovers, prime-rib sliders and chestnut soup with Nantucket bay scallops. After he works his magic, you’ll get to try the dishes and leave with the recipes so you can attempt them on your own. Best part? The whole thing is free – the demo goes down from 5–7 PM, and all you …

John Dory Oyster Bar
Photos: Jacqueline Wasilczyk

April Bloomfield

Today marks the much anticipated (and much delayed) opening of the John Dory Oyster Bar inside the Ace Hotel. As expected, the decor is a mix of kitsch and class, with large plastic fish and seafood-classification posters on the walls, detailed tile flooring, copper tabletops and seashell light fixtures. The lunch crowd at 12:15 PM was light – with a mix of probable hotel guests, well-heeled couples and small groups – but a steady stream of stylish passersby entered in to take peeks. Both …

The new Colors Café is located in the Puck Building.

Worker-owned restaurant Colors has just opened a cafe spin-off. The unusual part? It’s housed in NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service on the second floor of the Puck Building. Fortunately, you don’t have to drop thousands in tuition for a taste of its breakfast, lunch and snack fare, as it’s open to visitors as well as students and faculty (295 Lafayette St.).

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The already weird landscape of creative cupcakes just a got a little weirder. Yes, Yummy Cupcakes in LA has rolled out some special flavors for Thanksgiving including marshmallow brown sugar yam (yam cupcake topped with marshmallow buttercream, toasted marshmallows, brown sugar and walnuts) and lime Jell-O (lime cupcake centered with lime Jell-O and topped with lime whipped cream). But the grande dame of kooky cupcakes must be the turkey gravy and cranberry flavor – “a turkey gravy cupcake seasoned with savory Thanksgiving gravy, topped with a fresh cranberry relish cream …