Russian Tea Room

The iconic Russian Tea Room on 57th Street has come out with a new petite steak menu ($48). It's a steak dinner without the 64-ounce commitment.

The menu comes with a choice of meat and a side. The meat options are as follows: strip steak (6 ounces), petite lamb T-Bone (10 ounces), rib eye (6 ounces), or the petit fillet (5 ounces). Customers choose from three sides: the royal baked potato, the fried mushrooms, or the Tuscan-style fries with herbs and garlic.

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GO Burger is launching a Dream Burger contest. The restaurant is asking diners to submit a description of their dream burgers on Twitter or Facebook through Thursday, May 24.

In honor of National Hamburger Day on May 28, the burger chain will be selecting and serving one lucky winner's burger at participating restaurants. Tweet them @goburger or post on their Facebook wall to enter.

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Kutsher's, the Jewish-American bistro in Tribeca, will now offer delivery service.

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Megan Martin

Raspberry Margarita at Tortaria

Cinco De Mayo is just around the corner and that calls for some rounds of tequila and maybe a margarita or two. Here's a round-up of five places where you can get discounted booze on the Mexican independence day.

1) $5 bar at Tortoria. Tortaria's four Mexican-style beers on tap will all be $5 each. The selection includes: Agave Wheat, Pacifico, Negra Modelo, and Dos Equis. Other $5 selections are their house margaritas, frozen margaritas, shots of house tequila, red sangria, and an order of made-to-order guacamole, with a side of chips or corn tortillas.

2) Virgil's is also offering $5 tequila shots, $5 frozen margaritas and $5 frozen mango margaritas.

3) From 11 am to 2 am, MexiQ Kitchen & Draught will offer Dos Equis XX beer at the happy hour price - $3 - and host live music.

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Fork in the Road hears that French chef Jean-Yves Schillinger will be taking over the kitchen of the enormous Nikki Beach space in midtown.

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Baconery

New York's first bacon bakery Baconery opened its doors to the public yesterday. The shop is located inside Books of Wonder on 18th Street. We caught up with owner Wesley Klein, who shared with us some unique tidbits about his savory-meets-sweet company.

1) His bakers do not have professional culinary backgrounds.
"I have three bakers right now," Klein says. "One of them is going to school for hospitality. They're just creative and have never had school experience in the culinary word. One of them used to work for OMGPOP. Another one makes cakes on the side. They're very creative and very different. Here at work, they have the freedom to create new stuff."

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Gizzi's

Interior of restaurant

Gizzi's on 8th Street is no longer serving up its usual coffee and pastries. "We're no longer a coffee shop," co-owner John Waldman says. "Don't get that confused."

Two months ago, the Greenwich Village restaurant renovated its menu and has since re-branded itself as a restaurant, bar, and lounge. "We saw that not that many people were gravitating toward West 8th. . . . We needed to attract a different type of crowd in order to survive, so we ultimately decided to make it into a full-fledged fine-dining experience."

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Dina Regine

Every chef has a "Stairway to Heaven," that annoyingly crowd-pleasing dish they can't take off the menu. For Wylie Dufresne of the Lower East Side gem WD-50, it's his modern rendition of eggs Benedict, which once blew our collective minds with fried cubes of Hollandaise. Well, it's the end of an era.

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Mission Chinese Food, the scrappy, much-loved San Francisco restaurant with a built-in charity model, recently announced it was bringing its "Americanized Oriental Cuisine" to the Lower East Side. Today, in an admittedly weird move, the team is auctioning tickets to its NY preview party on eBay. Bids for the preview start at $65 while bids for a private party start at $3,000.

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Soon after we posted our list of the city's 5 best beer halls, we got word from Bowery Boogie that Paulaner Brewery, the Bavarian brew giant, is planning to open a massive flagship beer hall on the Bowery.

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