Queens restaurant takes horse meat off menu

  Eyewitness NewsNEW YORK -- A New York City restaurant has bowed to pressure from animal lovers and taken horse meat off the menu.

The New York Times reports that the owners of M. Wells Dinette had planned to serve horse tartare at their restaurant that recently opened inside a museum in Queens.

Chef and co-owner Hugue Dufour announced his plan in a magazine interview. Then 1,300 animal-welfare advocates signed petitions on Change.org demanding that he take horse meat off the menu.

In a statement Thursday, Dufour and the other owners said they would not serve horse because the idea upset so many people. They said that surprised them.

Dufour said he served 5,000 grilled cheese sandwiches that included horse meat at a food festival in Brooklyn in May.

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Swastikas found painted on Rockland restaurant

  Eyewitness NewsROCKLAND COUNTY (WABC) -- Police are investigating disturbing messages of hate found in Rockland County.

The owner of Cassie's Restaurant on Route 303 in Orangeburg says $1,000 was stolen by whoever left the swastikas.

There was also a message scrawled in German that translates as, "We want to kill Jews."

The restaurant owner is not Jewish.

Anyone with information is asked to call Orangeburg police.

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"Elaine's" restaurant to close

Elaine Kaufman, the colorful restaurateur whose East Side establishment, Elaine's, became a haven for show business and literary notables, died at the age of 81. (AP Photo / AP Photo)

  Eyewitness NewsNEW YORK (WABC) -- Nearly six months after the death of legendary New York City restaurateur Elaine Kaufman, her eponymously named Upper East Side Manhattan restaurant, Elaine's, will close its doors permanently after "last call" on May 26.

"This is one of the most difficult decisions I've ever had to make," explained Diane Becker, Elaine's longtime manager who inherited the restaurant, "but the truth is, there is no Elaine's without Elaine."

"I'm enormously proud of the waiters, the bartenders and the entire staff who have worked so hard with me to keep the place open and going since Elaine's passing in December, but it's simply not a viable situation. The business is just not there without Elaine."

A memorial service on behalf of Elaine Kaufman is being planned for June.

Elaine Kaufman opened Elaine's in 1963 and it quickly became one of the city's most high profile restaurants with a legion of literary customers.

During its 48-year run, it came to attract the city's and the country's power elite from media and politics to entertainment and law enforcement.

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