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Eater
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Eater
Bushwick's Best Dive Bar Food Is Expanding Into Manhattan and Williamsburg
is a Social Video Producer at Eater, focusing primarily on New York City. He covers restaurants big and small and more importantly, the people behind them. Lori Jayne, which started as a Bushwick bar food experiment, is going to open something new in Manhattan in September, followed by a Williamsburg location next year. And, ahead of these big plans, the current pop-up, found in dive bar Alphaville, where it has been since 2023 and gained a following, will have its last day on Saturday, August 24. It's not for lack of customers: Lori Jayne — which takes its name from owner Sam Braverman's mother — first launched serving juicy, tender fried chicken. But with the encouragement of video journalist Rob Martinez, who featured the then-little-known bar program on his social media, Braverman decided to make a foray into steak frites. Branching out paid off, and soon, customers began to catch on that the city's best steak frites deal at just $20 was not at one of many new French restaurants opening, but at his dive bar headquarters. Served in a paper boat and accompanied by chopsticks, the dish got attention from the Infatuation, the New York Times, and Eater. Braverman has continued to put out dive bar bites like gochujang-glazed nuggets and pork belly-topped fries to chili cheese bacon burgers with crispy capers. His food tapped into something Bushwick was craving: fun and care to familiar bar food in a very laid-back space. It helped that Braverman has a sense of humor, often announcing specials on his page in monotone. Steak frites and the burger at Lori Jayne. Sergio Scardigno/Eater But, as Braverman tells Eater, he quickly outgrew the Bushwick space. 'We haven't been able to give people the full Lori Jayne experience,' he says. While the static menu seems straightforward, tuning into the Instagram account quickly reveals Sam's brain is itching to try whatever delicious intrusive thought hits him next, like the confit miso pork belly sandwich with Buffalo sesame oil slaw, on a toasted bun made with steak butter. Also, given that this operation was attached to a nightlife spot, Braverman, a soon-to-be dad, wanted to make the business more sustainable. Over the years, Braverman had trailed at various top restaurants in Manhattan, but nothing quite stuck. 'I didn't really fit in the kitchens I was trying to work in, so I learned more and worked harder and built my own,' he says. He mentioned in a previous interview that he knew of Alphaville because he had performed there as a musician, and a buddy tipped him off that they needed someone to take over the kitchen. In a video posted to the Lori Jayne Instagram account over the weekend, Braverman announced the last day at Alphaville for August 24. Meanwhile, he tells Eater he has signed a deal to open Lori Jayne in Manhattan this September at a quick-service spot, though he said he could not announce the address yet. It's just the beginning: Braverman also tells Eater he is in negotiations to open a full-service version of Lori Jayne in Williamsburg next year. 'We want to go to a place where everything, from the music to the beverage selection to, you know, even how you're greeted when you come in, is, like, part of the ecosystem of Lori Jayne,' he says. He hopes these next moves will allow him to expand his offerings, including starting to sell bottled sauces (recently, he made one made with ramps). 'We need to make a change,' Braverman says, 'a drastic change, and push ourselves to get to that next level.' Steak frites at Lori Jayne. Sergio Scardigno
Daily Mirror
16-07-2025
- Politics
- Daily Mirror
Nigel Farage blow as high-profile figure quits Reform UK after seven months
Rael Braverman, the partner of the former Home Secretary Suella Braverman, said on Wednesday he had left the right-wing party Reform UK 'effective immediately' Top Tory Suella Braverman's husband has quit Reform UK in a blow to Nigel Farage. Rael Braverman, the partner of the former Home Secretary, said on Wednesday he had left the right-wing party "effective immediately". Ben Habib, a former co-leader of the party who also quit last year, said he was "not surprised" by the decision of Mr Braverman. He posted on X: "Anyone with a coherent political philosophy which puts the country at its centre is bound to fall out with the bad joke that is Reform Party UK." Mr Braverman, who defected from the Conservative to join Mr Farage's party back in December, did not explain the decision to leave the party. But he recently mocked the decision of former Tory chairman Jake Berry to defect to Reform UK, posting on X: "Jake who?" And just yesterday the prominent Reform UK party official, Zia Yusuf, criticised the ex-Tory Home Secretary, Ms Braverman. It followed news of a massive data breach of Afghans desperate to flee to the UK which resulted in a secret relocation scheme and legal cover-up under the Conservatives. Mr Yusuf posted on X on Tuesday: "The British government learnt of the data leak in August 2023. 24k Afghans secretly granted asylum, costing British taxpayers up to £7 billion. "The government covered it up. Who was in government? Home Secretary: Suella Braverman. Immigration Minister: Robert Jenrick." In the Commons on Wednesday at PMQs Keir Starmer also said former ministers in the previous Tory government had "serious questions" to answer. The PM hit out at the Conservatives over the "major data breach" which saw a defence official release details of almost 19,000 people seeking to flee Afghanistan after the return of the Taliban. He said: "We warned in opposition about Conservative management of this policy and yesterday, the Defence Secretary set out the full extent of the failings that we inherited: a major data breach, a superinjunction, a secret route that has already cost hundreds of millions of pounds. "Ministers who served under the party opposite have serious questions to answer about how this was ever allowed to happen."
Spectator
16-07-2025
- Politics
- Spectator
Reform will exploit the Afghan scandal to the full
The Afghan data leak is the kind of scandal which is perfect for Reform UK. It involves gross incompetence, profligacy and the complicity of both major parties. The Tories took the decision to allow thousands of Afghans into the country secretly; Labour continued the super-injunction which stopped that fact from being reported. Both Nigel Farage and Zia Yusuf are now gleefully savaging the last Tory government for decisions taken in late 2023. Two ministers in that Home Office at that time were Suella Braverman and Robert Jenrick. She left the Home Office on 13 November; he followed on 6 December. Allies of both say that official records will show that the pair opposed the scale and premise of the Ministry of Defence plan. The secret Afghanistan Response Route began on 19 December, after both had left office. But Reform is now going hard on the fact that both Braverman and Jenrick knew about the proposals and the imposition of the super injunction, which was imposed at the start of September. For some in Reform, the scandal offers a welcome chance to put Jenrick back in his box. Amid much speculation about the Shadow Justice Secretary's future plans, for Farage loyalists, the past 24 hours have offered Westminster a useful reminder of the potency of their attacks. They intend to show that Jenrick, like all the other Tories, is tarred by the last 14 years. 'Nigel is a million times better than him', says one aide. Having largely ignored Jenrick for months, now is the time for Reform to fire their ammunition. His X account, usually so active, has been silent for the past 24 hours. Then there is the case of Braverman. She remains a Tory MP but is on constant defection watch. Her husband, Rael, had been a vocal supporter of Reform UK since December. He has chosen to quit the party today – unsurprising, perhaps, given the venom of some of Reform's attacks. 'The list of former Tory ministers who should defect to Reform,' wrote Yusuf yesterday, 'is shorter than the list that should probably be in jail'. Farage's party is unapologetic about their robustness and Mr Braverman's resignation: they argue that their hands cannot be tied in responding to this scandal. Next week, Reform will begin a major six-week campaign across the country. It is expected to focus on crime and the pressures which are being placed on the justice system by the unprecedented levels of both legal and illegal migration. The Afghan scandal could not have come at a better time to tee all this up. Farage said on X yesterday that 'amongst the number that have come are convicted sex offenders… the threat to women walking the streets of this country, frankly, is incalculable.' Expect to see more of that in the weeks that lie ahead.
Spectator
04-07-2025
- Politics
- Spectator
Ipso owes Suella Braverman an apology
When Suella Braverman wrote in April 2023 that 'the perpetrators [of group-based child sexual exploitation] are groups of men, almost all British-Pakistani,' the then-Home Secretary was roundly condemned. 'Hacked Off', a lobby group which seeks to tighten regulation of the press, said her article in the Mail on Sunday was part of a 'toxic libel'. Guardian columnist Owen Jones went on to describe her 'claims' as 'designed to foment racist division and hate'. Lewis Goodall of LBC confronted her live on air, saying that she was chastised 'entirely rightly' for her 'false claim'. One entity went further than words. The Centre for Media Monitoring (CfMM), an offshoot of the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), filed a formal complaint with the press regulator, Ipso, on the grounds that there it was inaccurate and misleading to say that Pakistani men are overrepresented in grooming gang activity. Ipso took their side, and instructed the Mail on Sunday to print a correction, whilst stating that no breach of the Editor's Code has technically taken place. It's worth understanding just how controversial the Muslim Council of Britain, to which CfMM is connected, really is. In 2009, the British government under Gordon Brown suspended all engagement with the MCB after its Deputy Secretary-General, Dr. Daud Abdullah, signed the 'Istanbul Declaration' – a document interpreted as endorsing violence against Israel and even attacks on foreign (including British) troops aiding Israel. This informal boycott has been continued by successive governments. Almost two years after the ruling, the accuracy in Braverman's 'claim' has been proven beyond doubt. Baroness Louise Casey's independent audit, which was published earlier this year, has confirmed what victims, social workers and Braverman herself always knew: that in towns like Rotherham, Rochdale and Telford, the pattern of abuse was committed overwhelmingly by British-Pakistanis. This truth was suppressed, denied and tolerated for years because officials were too afraid to say so out loud. The same 2020 Home Office report that CfMM clung to in its complaint is dismissed by Casey as methodologically flawed. Paragraph 16 of Ipso's ruling stated that linking Pakistani ethnicity to a specific form of abuse was inaccurate. Casey has now proved unequivocally that such a link exists. Last week, Braverman wrote to Ipso to demand a retraction of that ruling. She is right to do so, and the rest of us should support her. What Ipso did in 2023 was not just a procedural error – it was an act of moral cowardice. The ruling suggests that it accepted the word of a partisan campaign group over that of the serving Home Secretary. Her letter to Ipso Chairman Lord Faulks says it all in a phrase: 'The truth cannot be racist.' Beyond this demanded apology, there is a deeper question to ask about press regulation, and the pressure that individual groups can apply to shape the national debate. CfMM's founder, Miqdaad Versi, earned a name by lodging dozens of complaints with newspapers, demanding corrections for articles that linked parts of Islam to violence or radicalism. He once argued that all negative reporting on Islam should carry a compulsory right of reply – from him. News editors have admitted privately to giving in 'for the sake of a quiet life'. Ipso, to its disgrace, gave in officially. Under Versi's watch, CfMM has waged a relentless campaign against reporting on grooming gangs. CfMM has tried to portray the topic as a racist obsession – a 'trope.' But the Casey audit confirms that what they dismissed as a trope was, in fact, a pattern of abuse too politically sensitive to tackle. That CfMM's complaint was upheld by Ipso on this matter is beyond shameful, it is disgusting. Amanda Morris, CfMM's 'community liaison officer', also works for Stop Funding Hate – the same group that tries to defund GB News and the Sun. Morris has been accused of sharing antisemitic content online. She denies doing so and says she is 'an opponent of all forms of racism including anti-Jewish racism'. One of CfMM's analysts, Faisal Hanif, had to apologise for promoting material by Gilad Atzmon – a man who reportedly told students that 'the Jews were expelled from Germany for misbehaving.' Hanif said that sharing the post was an error 'both professionally and personally (having) fail(ed) to check Mr Atzmon's wider views.' Does Ipso think these people should be the ones to decide the contours of public debate? Braverman's crime was to describe a reality that tens of thousands of families already knew. For that, she was disciplined, humiliated, and cast as a bigot. The truth is that she didn't mislead the public – she told them what the Home Office, Ipso and the vast majority of the commentariat lacked the courage to admit. Braverman's demand for Ipso to retract its ruling is about more than setting a historical record straight – this is a battle over whether or not the press in this country have the right to report on both grooming gangs and the ethnic dimensions of crime accurately, regardless of taboo. If we still believe in truth, in courage, and in justice for the victims of these crimes, then this moment requires something more: we must say, without hesitation, that Suella Braverman was right – and that Ipso was wrong. And we must not stop saying it until they admit it too.
Yahoo
24-06-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Presenter Launches Legal Action Against GB News After Saying He Was Dismissed For Calling Former Home Secretary 'A Racist'
An ex-GB News presenter is taking the network to court after claiming he was dismissed for calling the former Home Secretary a 'racist and a thoroughly bigoted woman.' Albie Amankona is being supported by the UK's Good Law Project and says he is headed to an employment tribunal for alleged racial discrimination, belief discrimination, harassment, unequal pay, victimisation for speaking out and unfair dismissal. GB News calls his claim 'misconceived.' More from Deadline Ofcom Boss: Landmark UK Supreme Court Ruling On Definition Of A Woman "May Affect" How Regulator Judges Complaints About TV Shows GB News Wins Landmark Legal Battle With UK Media Regulator Ofcom Over Trump Report Ofcom Set To Receive 60,000 Complaints Over GB News Pedophile Joke Amankona, who was previously a regular on the right-leaning channel, says he was dropped by GB News last year after he said he believed Braverman was 'a racist and a thoroughly bigoted woman.' He was told by co-host and now Reform UK politician, Darren Grimes, that 'you cannot sit on this show and call someone a racist', and says he was later informed by GB News that he had 'crossed a line' between robust discussion and 'unjustifiable offence.' GB News apologized to Braverman on X over the incident and she thanked the network for the apology. 'Mr Amankona's claim is misconceived, without merit and being robustly defended. As the claim is ongoing we do not propose to comment further,' said a GB News spokesman. Braverman was at the center of the BBC's row over Gary Lineker's tweets two years back, when Lineker tweeted criticizing the government's asylum policy. The news represents GB News' latest legal tussle, while the network has also had plenty of presenter and pundit turnaround during its time on air. Both Laurence Fox and Calvin Robinson were sacked in 2023, while host Dan Wootton left soon after. Earlier this year, GB News won a landmark legal battle against Ofcom over a report by presenter Jacob Rees-Mogg about Donald Trump. Best of Deadline 'The Gilded Age' Season 3 Release Schedule: When Do New Episodes Come Out? 2025 TV Series Renewals: Photo Gallery Sean 'Diddy' Combs Sex-Trafficking Trial Updates: Cassie Ventura's Testimony, $10M Hotel Settlement, Drugs, Violence, & The Feds
