Kitchen Dish
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PLAYTIME Dave & Busters (234 W. 42nd St., between Seventh and Eighth a venues, third floor, 212-764-1761), a chain of combination restaurants, arcades, and grownup playgrounds, opens in Times Square today. The 35,000-square-foot establishment can seat more than 450 people who can play pool, skee-ball, virtual shooting, virtual golf, video games, and more while drinking and ea ting affordable chain-restaurant food.
NO LUNCH Gilt (455 Madison Ave., between 50th and 51st streets, 212-891-8100), chef Paul Liebrandt’s culinary playground, has stopped serving lunch. It is open for just five meal periods, dinner on Tuesday through Saturday. The bar remains open seven nights a week.
PASSOVER CUPCAKES Crumbs bakeshop (321 Amsterdam Ave., between 75th and 76th streets, 212-712-9800; 1371 Third Ave., between 78th and 79th streets, 212-794-9800; and 43 W. 42nd St, between Fifth and Sixth avenues, 212-221-1500) is handing out free samples of its flourless cupcakes, which it developed for Passover, from this Saturday through Wednesday, April 12. The holiday-themed desserts include Raspberry Red Sea Cupcake, which is a vanilla nut cupcake filled with raspberry preserves, topped with vanilla frosting and garnished with almond slivers and raspberry puree.
The Coconut Commandments Cupcake is a coconut cupcake filled and frosted with pineapple and covered in shredded coconut.
The Holy Moses Cupcake is a coconut nut cupcake filled with chocolate fudge and covered in vanilla frosting and chocolate shavings, along with toasted coconut and pieces of Mounds bars. Finally, Elijah’s Surprise is a vanilla nut cupcake filled and frosted with chocolate butter cream and garnished with sliced almonds and drizzled chocolate. Since the frosting and filling are the same, it is unclear what the surprise is.
Passover, during which observant Jews abstain from eating most wheatbased foods, among other things, begins on the night of April 12 this year.
AL FRESCO With springtime comes outdoor seating. Ribot (780 Third Ave. at 48th Street, 212-355-3700), has started slowly with the addition of 10 seats outdoors, but it plans to add another 50 or so down 48th Street as the weather warms up. That will more than double the seating capacity of this Mediterranean bistro.
Mr. Thorn is food editor a t Na tion’s Restaurant News. He can be reached atbthorn@nrn.com.
