Email Scan: A Taboret Table

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We scan the inbox so you don't have to. Today, there's only one item of note:

FROM: Best Bets Daily
SUBJECT: A little table
MESSAGE: This petite piece of furniture from Apartment 48 doubles as a stool.

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FROM: Thrillist
SUBJECT: Cote D'Or (225 Varick St at Clarkson St, 212-727-2775)
MESSAGE: A recently-opened French bistro from Simon Oren.
DISCARDED: "the Port Authority, where smooth pimps might confuse you for a fresh-off-the-bus naïf, buy your dinner, and introduce you to their 'friends'"

FROM: DailyCandy
SUBJECT: Postcards: True Stories That Never Happened
MESSAGE: A book made up of postcards collected from antique stores, thrift shops and rummage sales.

FROM: UrbanBaby Daily
SUBJECT: Trois Pommes Patisserie (260 Fifth Ave, Brooklyn, 718-230-3119)
MESSAGE: A new bakery in Park Slope.

FROM: Juli B
SUBJECT: A list of restaurants opening in August.
MESSAGE: Matsugen (241 Church St between Worth and Leonard Sts, 212-925-0202), a restaurant opening late August in the former 66 space by Jean Georges Vongerichten; Batch ( 150-b W 10th St at Waverly Pl, 212-929-1736), a dessert shop that pastry chef Pichet Ong is opening adjacent to P*ONG in early August; Los Dados (71-73 Gansevoort St at Greenwich, no phone yet), a casual Mexican restaurant from Sue Torres and David Rabin, opening in the former Meet space mid-August; Italian restaurant Il Melograno (501 W 51st St at Tenth Ave, no phone yet) is also opening mid-August; and the Tour de France restaurant group is opening another French bistro, Nizza (630 Ninth Ave between 44th and 45th Sts, no phone yet), in about a month.

FROM: Wingman Daily
SUBJECT: iKaraoke
MESSAGE: A karaoke machine, available online, that plugs into an iPod.

FROM: RareDaily
SUBJECT: Centro Vinoteca (74 Seventh Ave South at Barrow St, 212- 367-7470
MESSAGE: This West Village Italian restaurant has opened.