“To properly serve these spaces, additional staff - which is expensive and not easy to find - is often required. “Very few people are utilizing them now, no matter how elaborate,” said veteran restaurant consultant Shelley Clark. More modest spots, like the Upper East Side’s Blue Mezze, Canyon Road and Finnegans Wake - are chopping their sheds in half. Redesigned Noz Market uptown returns this week from a temporary shutdown minus the toolshed-like counter it once had on East 75th Street. “It was time to strip off the Band-Aid,” said a manager. Keen’s Steakhouse on 36th used to have a wooden shed that stretched down the block. New York City’s street-based dining structures are quietly disappearing - and restaurant critic Steve Cuozzo couldn’t be happier. This despite construction costs of up to $100,000. Sheds recently came down without fanfare at premier spots including Buddakan, Keen’s Steakhouse, Locanda Verde, BLT Prime, Tao Downtown, Tsuru TonTan and Cellini. And they’re festering grounds for vagrants and vermin, to boot. Once necessary, they’re now too costly to run and maintain for too few patrons. I mean the unheralded, entirely voluntary takedowns by owners who find that these structures are shunned and despised by customers ( not to mention neighbors). I’m not talking about the city’s overdue crackdown on dangerous or unused shanty-town shacks that’s claimed nearly 200 stinkers - including Pinky’s on East 1st Street, which had the chutzpah to sue the city over it.
New York City’s street-based dining structures are quietly going the way of “show your vaccination card” at some of the hottest and most famous of eating establishments, a Post survey found. The sheds they are a-crumblin’ - and the sooner they all do, the better. Owner of NYC day care allegedly deleted 21K encrypted messages to on-the-run husband after tot exposed to fentanyl NYC pols sue to stop Brooklyn’s Floyd Bennett Field from becoming migrant shelter - days after city inked deal with feds New Yorkers catch royal fever for Prince William: ‘Very warm and genuine’ Last year, Madison Square Garden Company invested $181 million in Tao, and this year, they’ve continued to open new projects like a California-style cafe and an egg sandwich shop.Įater NY has reached out to Tao Group for more information.It’s time for Joe Biden to ‘address’ the migrant problem in NYC It also owns NYC restaurants like Lavo and Tao Downtown, and despite negative reviews for the food, businesses like Vandal remain perpetually packed. It’s the rare closure for Tao Group, known for being one of the most profitable nightlife and restaurant companies in the country. And in the meantime, the Post also notes that some of the better known dishes from Stanton Social - including those French onion soup dumplings - will be served at Santos’ other restaurants. Santos and fellow Tao Group partners are searching for a bigger new location to open in, according to the Post. Comedian Amy Schumer and her sister Kim Caramele also worked as bartenders at Stanton Social before Schumer’s acting and writing career took off.īut it might not be the end for this sceney LES restaurant. The restaurant, an early entry into the shared plates dining trend, attracted a celebrity clientele including Matt Damon and Sofia Vergara. Santos, who serves as a judge on the Food Network’s Chopped, is also behind the menus at Tao’s Bowery restaurant Vandal and Beauty & Essex. The drinks are similarly over-the-top, with popsicles thrown into champagne and an “orange creamsicle” shot topped with whipped cream. Stanton Social opened in 2005, and Santos became known for his kitschy fusion fare there, like French onion soup dumplings and a “Philly cheesesteak” truffle and goat cheese fondue. The last day for the clubby late-night staple will be New Year’s Eve.Ĭhef-owner Chris Santos tells the Post that the shutter is the result of an ending lease. According to the Post, the restaurant will close after 15 years in Hell Square.
Stanton Social - one of Tao Group’s early NYC restaurants that helped shape the prolific restaurant group’s over-the-top approach to food and drink - is shuttering at the end of the year.
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