-Boston, MA
-Feast Fest's large concentration of chefs located up and down the Eastern Seaboard is boarding up and readying to close up shop for their restaurants as Hurricane Sandy threatens to pummel the region.
The powerful cyclone is projected to make landfall Tuesday along the Delaware and New Jersey coasts and then travel westward into Pennsylvania. New York City would certainly get a big, if not direct, hit from Sandy, and Boston will most likely see adverse effects from the 800-mile-wide hurricane as well.
Alexei Aiber and Johnny Stevenson, both owners of eateries in Trenton, N.J. and Latrobe, Pa., respectively, were seen putting planks of wood across their establishments and closing Friday. Lynn Avi's midtown Manhattan will close Sunday night, once the weekend rush is over. The storm will begin coming into the area on Sunday and Monday, with the worst effects scheduled for Tuesday.
Here in Boston, Joe Pasik was wavering about what action to take when asked about his restaurant No. He originally said that No would be closed and his annual Halloween Haul feast cancelled. Now that Sandy is projected merely to graze Boston, instead of plowing headfirst into it as was expected yesterday, Pasik has some misgivings about cancelling the extremely popular annual event, especially since William Vanderbilt, Jim Dall, and Arthur Ayeiy are scheduled to be in attendance as part of their 11-day, 30-city world tour on which they are currently embarking.
But, that tour could be rerouted as well. The threesome is supposed to stop in Washington, Philly, and Chicago on Monday and in Toronto, Montreal, and Boston on Tuesday, but that itinerary could be mangled if the storm interferes.
-Feast Fest's large concentration of chefs located up and down the Eastern Seaboard is boarding up and readying to close up shop for their restaurants as Hurricane Sandy threatens to pummel the region.
The powerful cyclone is projected to make landfall Tuesday along the Delaware and New Jersey coasts and then travel westward into Pennsylvania. New York City would certainly get a big, if not direct, hit from Sandy, and Boston will most likely see adverse effects from the 800-mile-wide hurricane as well.
Alexei Aiber and Johnny Stevenson, both owners of eateries in Trenton, N.J. and Latrobe, Pa., respectively, were seen putting planks of wood across their establishments and closing Friday. Lynn Avi's midtown Manhattan will close Sunday night, once the weekend rush is over. The storm will begin coming into the area on Sunday and Monday, with the worst effects scheduled for Tuesday.
Here in Boston, Joe Pasik was wavering about what action to take when asked about his restaurant No. He originally said that No would be closed and his annual Halloween Haul feast cancelled. Now that Sandy is projected merely to graze Boston, instead of plowing headfirst into it as was expected yesterday, Pasik has some misgivings about cancelling the extremely popular annual event, especially since William Vanderbilt, Jim Dall, and Arthur Ayeiy are scheduled to be in attendance as part of their 11-day, 30-city world tour on which they are currently embarking.
But, that tour could be rerouted as well. The threesome is supposed to stop in Washington, Philly, and Chicago on Monday and in Toronto, Montreal, and Boston on Tuesday, but that itinerary could be mangled if the storm interferes.