Telepan Local

Our casual, neighborhood restaurant offers a pre-fixe menu with your choice of seven plates. With everything made in-house and made to-order, we can accommodate most dietary restrictions and allergies. Telepan Local appreciates seasonality and we make sure to provide all of our vegetables at their peak. Our full-service bar includes locally distilled liquors and house-made bitters, tinctures,...

Telepan Local offers almost none of the virtues of small-plates eating with most of the drawbacks. The meal unfolds, or unravels, on tables the size of the ones in cocktail lounges where, in another era, people had manhattans and mixed nuts while waiting to be moved to the dining room. “We’re a farm-to-table American tapas restaurant,” my server said one night. “All the food is small plates...

EAST VILLAGE — Back Forty is bringing back its annual summer crab boils on June 3. Then, and on every Tuesday until Labor Day, both Back Forty and Back Forty West will serve communal feast of crabs, cornbread, corn on the cob, potatoes, string beans, and fruit cobbler to groups of ticket holders. Tickets are $50 per person, and are on sale now for all June boils. [EaterWire]

TRIBECA — Telepan...

Bill Telepan's eponymous brand migrates to Tribeca, bringing a cozy, casual eatery to the culinary canyon of Greenwich Street. The menu boasts mostly small plates of imminently shareable American dishes, from grilled cheese and pigs in a blanket to bay scallops and grilled beef short ribs.

Lauded greenmarket cuisine pro Bill Telepan arrives Downtown with this TriBeCa New American.

Telepan Local offers a casual, tapas-style American menu inspired by the seasons. Dishes include arancini with bone marrow and parmesan aioli; fried watercress with chili oil and cashews, brussels sprouts & fingerling salad with a coddled egg; lamb tartare with fennel and black olive; as well as snapper with pickled beets and bitter greens. For a sweet ending, Pastry Chef Larissa Raphael offers...