Top Chef Elimination Supercut; Tix to 'The Esquire'

EAST VILLAGE ? Tickets went on sale last week for The Esquire, a three-day food fest by Esquire magazine. It's running from December 1 to 3 at the Bowery Hotel and will feature appearances by famous food people like Tom Colicchio, Michael Symon, and Christina Tosi. There'll also be an NFL watch party on the December 2 with Tiki Barber, because it's Esquire. Tickets are available online. [EaterWire]

BOERUM HILL ? Atlantic Avenue between the BQE and Fourth Avenue is doing the holiday shopping thing on Saturday, with a thing called Small Business Saturday. Restaurants along the stretch?like Pacifico and Henry Public?are running deals that day. Extra special double bonus: Noah and Rae Bernamoff will be signing The Mile End Cookbook at Mile End Deli. [EaterWire]

PARK SLOPE ? It's time for some cleverly-named restaurants in Brooklyn: Brownstoner rounding up the coming attractions on Flatbush, which include a mac and cheese place called Elbow Room, as well as a barbecue joint and a new "high-end" Mexican restaurant. And then just off Seventh Avenue there's a Vietnamese sandwich shop called Banhmigos inbound, reports Here's Park Slope. [Brownstoner, Here's Park Slope]

VIDEO INTERLUDE ? Eater National has a supercut of every single Top Chef elimination, from season one through last week's episode. Head over to hear reality show Angel of Death Padma Lakshmi tell poor cheftestapants to pack their knives and go over and over and over and over... [EN]