With specific demands, the campaign sketches out a plan to make sure our restaurants are here when we return to "normal." You can support it by signing the petition. / 2 comments
Plus CB1 has questions for the new head of the Perelman Performing Arts Center; three local restaurants make Pete Wells' short list of best dishes of 2019.
The Fidi restaurant now has brunch and a Michelin star, and the partners are finalizing plans for their four-story restaurant at the top of 70 Pine. / 4 comments
Plus a peek at the renovated lounge at the AKA hotel (for guests only); lead testing in Washington Market Park; a Halloween maker event for kids at Portfolio School. / 3 comments
Plus a local resident's new play addresses pregnancy and motherhood; last chance for 20 percent off at Crown Shy; new fast casual pasta in Fidi; a local lecture about The Plaza.
The (already) acclaimed restaurant from chef James Kent is offering a menu with lunch-exclusive dishes on weekdays from 11:30 to 2.
Plus The Real Real goes public; Crown Shy is open for lunch?; Osteria della Pace is open for brunch; construction at 200 Liberty; and Klein Epstein Parker moves across the street.
Plus the Aloft hotel breaks ground in Fidi; the giant entertainment space in Brookfield called Convene has CB1 worried.
A downtown kid grew up to be a chef at one Michelin-starred restaurant after another until he landed here, at his new solo project in Fidi at 70 Pine. / 1 comment
Plus no-dust renovations from the Journal; a review of Crown Shy; a turnkey luxury corporate rental outlet snapping up apartments in the area.
Plus One Beekman Street rising; Star sightings at Frenchette (mais bien sur); Brookfield gets a smell-full tenant; Instacart gets pushed out of Whole Foods / 3 comments
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