Until 10 p.m. tonight, the original Patsy’s location, in East Harlem, celebrates its 75th anniversary by doling out 90-cent steaks, 70- to 80-cent pasta dishes, and 60-cent pies (ah, but the toppings are where they get you — 15 cents each!). If you’re thinking of going, you better take a look at our photographer Melissa Hom’s photos of, yes, the line. And strap on some elbow pads.

A while back, we took a look at the campaign contributions of chefs and found that they leaned toward Hillary. Time Out now polls six chefs and finds them mostly pro-Obama. Sue Torres of Los Dados would feed McCain dog food — “I’d call it Chihuahua Chili and it would taste good.” Jacques Pepin of the French Culinary Institute would offer him “some vichyssoise with pureed turnips … to be sure he could eat it. I’m not sure he has many teeth left.” Craig Samuel of Smoke Joint would, um, remind him of his time in Vietnam by preparing “one of my favorite things in the world: bành mi, a Vietnamese sandwich.” Samuel also has the funniest Obama dish: “I’d wrap some pulled pork in bacon, and then follow with a pork dessert: ice cream in a dish rubbed with bacon fat. So he could say, ‘Look, I’m eating pork. Can we kill the Muslim thing now?’”

Commander in Beef [TONY]
Earlier: Batali, Bastianich Dip From the Same Cookie Jar for Different Candidates

Our special Grub Street spam filter instantly zaps corporate cocktail recipes, but we’re glad this one got through: Unhinged comedian Zach Galifianakis has sent us the recipe for the “Super Sweet Martini” he makes in the hilarious third installment of his Absolut ads. After you've poured some vodka, you’re to inject “7 times as much icing into the glass using a pastry bag or plastic tube.” Then comes the “handful of colored sugar.” We really do have to extend kudos to Absolut for making their product look this unappetizing.

A Vodka Movie (Part 3) by Zach Galifianakis, Tim and Eric [YouTube]
Related: Galifianakis, Showalter Strive for Indie Cred [Vulture]

Debonair restaurateur, boulevardier, and all-around bon vivant John McDonald bravely answered the "21 Questions" posed by our sibling Daily Intel today. The owner of Lure, Chinatown Brasserie, Brasserie 44, Lever House, and Merc Bar drinks “Margarita on the rocks with salt. Or super ice-cold beer, no glass.” This is the kind of guy we used to imagine wrote the Playboy Advisor in our boyhood. You may think you don’t want to know whether he likes the old Times Square or the new better, but you really do.

John McDonald Never Goes to Bed Before Midnight [Daily Intel]

As if to step up to Guest of a Guest’s aggressive plugging coverage of the Surf Club in Montauk, Down by the Hipster bused it to Atlantic City and checked into the Chelsea on the first weekend that Matt Abramcyk and Paul Sevigny’s fifth-floor lounge and pool deck served food. So was it a fun time?

You’d think Anthony Martignetti would be too busy with his impending nuptials to worry about renovations, but he and his brother Tom have closed Bella’s, the den of pheromones underneath Bar Martignetti, and will reopen it in September as the Magestic. Guest of a Guest’s premature nostalgia for the bar (it opened in 2006, after all) is almost too much to stomach — “I will miss the private parties in the booths, the spot of countless secrets shared, and the twirls to Journey on the dance floor.” What Rachelle Hruska fails to mention are the seemingly underage patrons that — by her own account — flooded the place. Have the Martignettis finally heeded Hruska’s advice to “switch their focus … and fast”? If so, we might expect either a cocktail reliquary along the lines of the nearby Randolph or something altogether more exclusive — perhaps along the lines of nearby Goldbar or Femme Fatale, which has shown few signs of life since it announced plans of reviving the Double Happiness space over a year ago. Either way, it’s a handsome space — with some serious airing out it could work well.

Bella's RIP: 2006-2008 [Guest of a Guest]

If New York’s cover feature about “backcourt beefcake” Rafael Nadal has you up for a spot of tennis, Madison Square Park will show the U.S. Open on a big-screen, for free, starting this next Friday through Sunday, September 7. This year, Country, Hill Country, and Rickshaw Dumpling Bar will join Shake Shack as food vendors. Tennis and barbecue? An unlikely combination, no doubt, but, hey, if you can get bagels and matzo ball soup in Beijing…

Fork in the Road might be obsessed with Drank, the “anti-energy” drink presumably inspired by “purple drank,” the mixture of cough syrup and Sprite that southern rappers like to get blunted on, but for those who worship at the mantle of alertness and productivity, Slate has a far more useful — if sort of stomach-turning — rundown of the latest forms of chewable caffeine.

What would we be doing if we weren’t posting this from the Bolt Bus? Why, we’d be at Keith McNally’s place on Martha’s Vineyard, of course! A while back he started growing food there, and last Wednesday, according to cookbook author Susie Middleton, he held an island-grown dinner party for about 100 people. The highlight of the menu? 100-pound piglets grown by local farmers Liz and Jeffrey Thompson and roasted over smoldering logs. Looking at the photos, we’re totally bummed our invitation was lost in the mail. You know the wine was good, too.

Having Your Pig and Eating It, Too [Farm to Fork]