Eat the Week; Oct 15th - 19th

Welcome back to Eat the Week, a compiled list of our posts from the week that we top with a picture for you.  That up there is Ippudo on 10th Street, soon to be opening a Midtown location.  Here's what we ate this week:

Our five favorite things we overheard at the 5th annual New York City Wine and Food Festival | Carmellini names new French project: LAFAYETTE | A recap of Le Cirque's book launch party we got to attend | Pete Wells files a (surprising?) two-star review on Blanca | Ivan Orkin's menu for the five-course dinner he cooked at the Breslin | Noah Fecks and Paul Wagtouicz's The Way We Ate website gets a book deal | We review Ganso in Downtown Brooklyn | Wylie Dufresne announces he's opening a second restaurant: ALDER | Donde Dinner? - 69 Thompson Street