The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which is in charge of construction on the new 1 World Trade Center – AKA the Freedom Tower – is now seeking developers to design, build and operate a 34,000-square-foot restaurant on the 100th and 101st floors; whoever wins the bid may also win rights to operate the observation deck planned for the 102nd floor. The Authority is gazing into its crystal construction ball and seeing......

This week on food-related TV, we’ve got: Tonight on No Reservations (10pm on the Travel Channel), Bourdain goes to Brazil. For a critical take on the show—you’re basically just watching a guy eat and it’s boring—read the Post here. Episode 8 of Top Chef airs Wednesday at 10pm (Bravo). Daniel Boulud is the guest judge this week. Read EW’s wrapup of the previous episode here. Last week NY’s final representative on the show, Sara, got......

Tables for Two and SavoryNY stop by the Russian Tea Room, and Jennifer Leuzzi talks David Chang, Michael Lomonaco and other chefs about their favorites of the year. No matter whose list you look at, (check out Cravings and Snack, for example) A Voce seems to be on it. Bruni had a busy day over at the Times today. He gave one star to omakase-only Sasabune, proclaiming that "with fish this fine," chef and owner......

Bruni two-stars spanish Boqueria, calls it happy and peppy, and says it has “the virtues of stylishness without the vanity, luring relatively young, good-looking diners who turn out for the eating more than the posing.” Named for the food market in Barcelona, about two-thirds of the menu at Boqueria features tapas. And the boys at Eater are on the money again, putting the action on two stars. Also in the Times, Peter Meehan visits Meskel......

Bruni one-stars Da Silvano, downgrading it from the two stars Ruth Reichl awarded the restaurant in 1998. He doesn’t quite understand its allure, though he sees occassional glimpses: “Perhaps more than any New York restaurant I know, Da Silvano illustrates... the mind-boggling inconsistency that can exist across the breadth of a menu and a series of visits.” Celebrities love the place, though, he tells us. He even called a few to ask why. Madonna didn't......

Well, one vacant restaurant at the Time Warner Center filled, one to go! Today's Times brings the announcement that one of the more famously vacant restaurant spaces in the city has been filled. After the failure of Jean Georges Vongerichten's V Steakhouse, not to mention the no-show of the originally called for Charlie Trotter restaurant, there has been a fair amount of interest in who would come next. And now we know that the answer......