New Experimental Cocktail Club Menu; Zimmern's Pilot

LOWER EAST SIDE — The Experimental Cocktail Club just launched a new spring menu, which includes four new drinks plus a bunch of favorites from the old menu. One of the new creations, the mezcal-based Joji Joji, is served as as a bottled cocktail. Check out the new cocktail menu at the bottom of this post. [EaterWire]

VIDEO INTERLUDE — As a "Throwback Thursday" surprise, chef and Bizarre Foods host Andrew Zimmern unleashed video of a failed television pilot from back in 2001. Zimmern says that the show, dubbed Now You're Cooking, was filmed for an unnamed home shopping network. Head over to Eater National to see the clip, which features the chef interacting with a very small live audience. [Eater National]

SOHO — Almost every single restaurant in this city has some type of mouse/vermin problem. And today, Gothamist points out that a mouse was recently spotted at Dominique Ansel Bakery. In other pastry/vermin news, a Dunkin' Donuts in the Garment District was shut down this week because of a well-documented rat problem. [Gothamist]

SAN FRANSICSO — While New York diners eagerly await the return of Mission Chinese Food, SF Chronicle critic Michael Bauer is busy panning the original restaurant. [SF Chronicle]

ECC NY Menu Verso by Eater NY

[Top Photo: The Experimental Cocktail Club by Krieger]