we should also have a thread about openings because the one about closings is pretty sad.
i heard that larry that used to work the door at waverly and pastis is trying to open a place, but i don't know any more about it or who he's partners with. it sounds like that could be pretty hot.
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QUOTE (virgo @ Feb 2 2009, 03:31 PM) 
i heard that larry that used to work the door at waverly and pastis is trying to open a place, but i don't know any more about it or who he's partners with. it sounds like that could be pretty hot.
funny-- i actually ran into larry last night at MinettaTavern !
and so i straight out asked him if he is opening a restaurant.
and he replied: "yes, i am!"
and then he walked away.
i'm just sayin.
QUOTE (abbe @ Mar 11 2009, 11:46 AM)
funny-- i actually ran into larry last night at MinettaTavern !
and so i straight out asked him if he is opening a restaurant.
and he replied: "yes, i am!"
and then he walked away.
i'm just sayin.
and so i straight out asked him if he is opening a restaurant.
and he replied: "yes, i am!"
and then he walked away.
i'm just sayin.
That's a pretty weird way to drum up a good loyal clientele.
QUOTE (MILFweed @ Mar 11 2009, 02:02 PM)
That's a pretty weird way to drum up a good loyal clientele.
i got all the 411 ! yay !!
i don't want to tell all the details cuz i think they are kinda trying to keep it under wraps for now, but they did say "an article in Vogue" should be coming out in june maybe. (they have one of those super duper power publicists but i aint sayin who it is).
i don't want to divulge where exactly either-- but it is a GREAT space in a pretty awesome location (greenwich/west village).
oh yah by the way-- larry's active partner is another industry peep we alls know and love. whoops come to think of it, i'm not sure exactly how many partners there are (if any) aside from those two.
anyways. the whole thing sounds totally awesome and i'm so happy for those guys. hopefully i will be able to tell more in a little whiles.
QUOTE (abbe @ Mar 24 2009, 05:29 PM)
larry's active partner is another industry peep we alls know and love.
Is that Johnny?
QUOTE (abbe @ Mar 24 2009, 05:29 PM)
i got all the 411 ! yay !!
i don't want to tell all the details cuz i think they are kinda trying to keep it under wraps for now, but they did say "an article in Vogue" should be coming out in june maybe. (they have one of those super duper power publicists but i aint sayin who it is).
i don't want to divulge where exactly either-- but it is a GREAT space in a pretty awesome location (greenwich/west village).
oh yah by the way-- larry's active partner is another industry peep we alls know and love. whoops come to think of it, i'm not sure exactly how many partners there are (if any) aside from those two.
anyways. the whole thing sounds totally awesome and i'm so happy for those guys. hopefully i will be able to tell more in a little whiles.
i don't want to tell all the details cuz i think they are kinda trying to keep it under wraps for now, but they did say "an article in Vogue" should be coming out in june maybe. (they have one of those super duper power publicists but i aint sayin who it is).
i don't want to divulge where exactly either-- but it is a GREAT space in a pretty awesome location (greenwich/west village).
oh yah by the way-- larry's active partner is another industry peep we alls know and love. whoops come to think of it, i'm not sure exactly how many partners there are (if any) aside from those two.
anyways. the whole thing sounds totally awesome and i'm so happy for those guys. hopefully i will be able to tell more in a little whiles.
finally something interesting opening up. the news has been so boring lately, and yea, add me to the list of people that think that minetta is over-rated.
QUOTE (Dick Johnson @ Mar 25 2009, 12:13 PM)
Is that Johnny?
Jonny from Freemans and Pastis? He is a good freind of Larry's. Or are they together now??
QUOTE (BX(Busboy Extraordinaire) @ Mar 25 2009, 01:41 PM)
Jonny from Freemans and Pastis? He is a good freind of Larry's. Or are they together now??
Good for them! I love it when people from the biz make good.
QUOTE (Dick Johnson @ Mar 25 2009, 12:13 PM)
Is that Johnny?
yup.
QUOTE (BX(Busboy Extraordinaire) @ Mar 25 2009, 01:41 PM)
Jonny from Freemans and Pastis? He is a good freind of Larry's. Or are they together now??
are they ? huh.
i know i have seen them out and about together a few times-- but doesn't johnny-swet have a serious boyfriend he's lived with for like 11 years or whatever ? some deejay dude ?
or maybe hmm-- that WAS a whiles ago the last time i ran into them together. maybe they broke up ? aww
in any case, yah it's johnny-swet and larry-whateverhislastnameis.
KEEP IT ON THE DL, PEOPLES.
QUOTE (Captain Kangaroo @ Mar 25 2009, 05:40 PM)
Good for them! I love it when people from the biz make good.
yay !!
Seems like they will make a formidable team. Best of luck to them. 
Isn't it amazing that there's still been no info on any other food blogs on this place? How are they keeping it such a secret, esp since it seems like Beater sits in on CB meetings? I have been keeping my eyes peeled, and nothing.
QUOTE (Captain Kangaroo @ Apr 30 2009, 01:13 PM)
Isn't it amazing that there's still been no info on any other food blogs on this place? How are they keeping it such a secret, esp since it seems like Beater sits in on CB meetings?
yah, that's a good point.
how have they been keeping it such a secret ? i know for a fact they are up to their eyeballs in construction.
pretty impressive.
QUOTE (abbe @ May 4 2009, 01:27 PM)
yah, that's a good point.
how have they been keeping it such a secret ? i know for a fact they are up to their eyeballs in construction.
pretty impressive.
how have they been keeping it such a secret ? i know for a fact they are up to their eyeballs in construction.
pretty impressive.
Surprisingly, PageSix got it first....I wonder who's doing their PR?
PAST IS PROLOGUE
May 8, 2009 --
WEST Ninth Street will soon have a new restaurant. Larry Poston, of the Waverly Inn and Pastis, has teamed up with Johnny Swet, of Balthazar and Freeman's, to take over the space that was once Marylou's, and the Penguin before that. They plan to go back to the building's original 1870 name, Hotel Griffou, an inn run by French-born Marie Griffou who served Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe and the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. When Mae West was forced to appear at the nearby Jefferson Courthouse to answer obscenity charges, her first stop after the trial was the bar at the Hotel Griffou. The reincarnation will open in late June.
QUOTE (Don Logan @ May 8 2009, 06:12 AM)
Surprisingly, PageSix got it first....I wonder who's doing their PR?
PAST IS PROLOGUE
May 8, 2009 --
WEST Ninth Street will soon have a new restaurant. Larry Poston, of the Waverly Inn and Pastis, has teamed up with Johnny Swet, of Balthazar and Freeman's, to take over the space that was once Marylou's, and the Penguin before that. They plan to go back to the building's original 1870 name, Hotel Griffou, an inn run by French-born Marie Griffou who served Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe and the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. When Mae West was forced to appear at the nearby Jefferson Courthouse to answer obscenity charges, her first stop after the trial was the bar at the Hotel Griffou. The reincarnation will open in late June.
PAST IS PROLOGUE
May 8, 2009 --
WEST Ninth Street will soon have a new restaurant. Larry Poston, of the Waverly Inn and Pastis, has teamed up with Johnny Swet, of Balthazar and Freeman's, to take over the space that was once Marylou's, and the Penguin before that. They plan to go back to the building's original 1870 name, Hotel Griffou, an inn run by French-born Marie Griffou who served Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe and the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. When Mae West was forced to appear at the nearby Jefferson Courthouse to answer obscenity charges, her first stop after the trial was the bar at the Hotel Griffou. The reincarnation will open in late June.
I was just about to post this, you beat me to it. And I was going to ask is this Nadine Johnson?
QUOTE (abbe @ Mar 24 2009, 05:29 PM)
i got all the 411 ! yay !!
i don't want to tell all the details cuz i think they are kinda trying to keep it under wraps for now, but they did say "an article in Vogue" should be coming out in june maybe. (they have one of those super duper power publicists but i aint sayin who it is).
i don't want to divulge where exactly either-- but it is a GREAT space in a pretty awesome location (greenwich/west village).
oh yah by the way-- larry's active partner is another industry peep we alls know and love. whoops come to think of it, i'm not sure exactly how many partners there are (if any) aside from those two.
anyways. the whole thing sounds totally awesome and i'm so happy for those guys. hopefully i will be able to tell more in a little whiles.
i don't want to tell all the details cuz i think they are kinda trying to keep it under wraps for now, but they did say "an article in Vogue" should be coming out in june maybe. (they have one of those super duper power publicists but i aint sayin who it is).
i don't want to divulge where exactly either-- but it is a GREAT space in a pretty awesome location (greenwich/west village).
oh yah by the way-- larry's active partner is another industry peep we alls know and love. whoops come to think of it, i'm not sure exactly how many partners there are (if any) aside from those two.
anyways. the whole thing sounds totally awesome and i'm so happy for those guys. hopefully i will be able to tell more in a little whiles.
She could not let Vogue get the scoop!
QUOTE (Don Logan @ May 8 2009, 06:12 AM)
Surprisingly, PageSix got it first....I wonder who's doing their PR?
PAST IS PROLOGUE
May 8, 2009 --
WEST Ninth Street will soon have a new restaurant. Larry Poston, of the Waverly Inn and Pastis, has teamed up with Johnny Swet, of Balthazar and Freeman's, to take over the space that was once Marylou's, and the Penguin before that. They plan to go back to the building's original 1870 name, Hotel Griffou, an inn run by French-born Marie Griffou who served Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe and the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. When Mae West was forced to appear at the nearby Jefferson Courthouse to answer obscenity charges, her first stop after the trial was the bar at the Hotel Griffou. The reincarnation will open in late June.
PAST IS PROLOGUE
May 8, 2009 --
WEST Ninth Street will soon have a new restaurant. Larry Poston, of the Waverly Inn and Pastis, has teamed up with Johnny Swet, of Balthazar and Freeman's, to take over the space that was once Marylou's, and the Penguin before that. They plan to go back to the building's original 1870 name, Hotel Griffou, an inn run by French-born Marie Griffou who served Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe and the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. When Mae West was forced to appear at the nearby Jefferson Courthouse to answer obscenity charges, her first stop after the trial was the bar at the Hotel Griffou. The reincarnation will open in late June.
QUOTE (Dishwasher @ May 11 2009, 10:53 AM)
I was just about to post this, you beat me to it. And I was going to ask is this Nadine Johnson?
You guys are fast! I guess we can move this to the non-private forum now.
QUOTE (virgo @ Feb 2 2009, 03:31 PM)
we should also have a thread about openings because the one about closings is pretty sad.
i heard that larry that used to work the door at waverly and pastis is trying to open a place, but i don't know any more about it or who he's partners with. it sounds like that could be pretty hot.
i heard that larry that used to work the door at waverly and pastis is trying to open a place, but i don't know any more about it or who he's partners with. it sounds like that could be pretty hot.
Woah, it only took everyone else 3 months to find out!
QUOTE (Don Logan @ May 8 2009, 06:12 AM)
Surprisingly, PageSix got it first....I wonder who's doing their PR?
PAST IS PROLOGUE
May 8, 2009 --
WEST Ninth Street will soon have a new restaurant. Larry Poston, of the Waverly Inn and Pastis, has teamed up with Johnny Swet, of Balthazar and Freeman's, to take over the space that was once Marylou's, and the Penguin before that. They plan to go back to the building's original 1870 name, Hotel Griffou, an inn run by French-born Marie Griffou who served Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe and the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. When Mae West was forced to appear at the nearby Jefferson Courthouse to answer obscenity charges, her first stop after the trial was the bar at the Hotel Griffou. The reincarnation will open in late June.
PAST IS PROLOGUE
May 8, 2009 --
WEST Ninth Street will soon have a new restaurant. Larry Poston, of the Waverly Inn and Pastis, has teamed up with Johnny Swet, of Balthazar and Freeman's, to take over the space that was once Marylou's, and the Penguin before that. They plan to go back to the building's original 1870 name, Hotel Griffou, an inn run by French-born Marie Griffou who served Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe and the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. When Mae West was forced to appear at the nearby Jefferson Courthouse to answer obscenity charges, her first stop after the trial was the bar at the Hotel Griffou. The reincarnation will open in late June.
Jesus Christ, finally!
QUOTE (Don Logan @ May 8 2009, 06:12 AM)
Surprisingly, PageSix got it first....I wonder who's doing their PR?
QUOTE (Dishwasher @ May 11 2009, 10:53 AM)
I was just about to post this, you beat me to it. And I was going to ask is this Nadine Johnson?
QUOTE (Dishwasher @ May 11 2009, 10:55 AM)
She could not let Vogue get the scoop!
Doesn't it warm your heart that Dick and the Ex-Missus still get along? Rowr!
QUOTE (Don Logan @ May 8 2009, 05:12 AM)
Surprisingly, PageSix got it first....I wonder who's doing their PR?
PAST IS PROLOGUE
May 8, 2009 --
WEST Ninth Street will soon have a new restaurant. Larry Poston, of the Waverly Inn and Pastis, has teamed up with Johnny Swet, of Balthazar and Freeman's, to take over the space that was once Marylou's, and the Penguin before that. They plan to go back to the building's original 1870 name, Hotel Griffou, an inn run by French-born Marie Griffou who served Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe and the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. When Mae West was forced to appear at the nearby Jefferson Courthouse to answer obscenity charges, her first stop after the trial was the bar at the Hotel Griffou. The reincarnation will open in late June.
PAST IS PROLOGUE
May 8, 2009 --
WEST Ninth Street will soon have a new restaurant. Larry Poston, of the Waverly Inn and Pastis, has teamed up with Johnny Swet, of Balthazar and Freeman's, to take over the space that was once Marylou's, and the Penguin before that. They plan to go back to the building's original 1870 name, Hotel Griffou, an inn run by French-born Marie Griffou who served Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe and the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. When Mae West was forced to appear at the nearby Jefferson Courthouse to answer obscenity charges, her first stop after the trial was the bar at the Hotel Griffou. The reincarnation will open in late June.
ooooh! how exciting ! yay !
"... the space that was once Marylou's, and the Penguin before that..."
oh boo, they forgot Oceans21. i'm sorry but that shit was pretty hott. even though it only lasted like 33 seconds.
ohhh i LOVED Oceans21. i was so bummed to see it close so abruptly.
i thought michael-ciccoricco did a really fantastic job. like--
that place was soooo DL, they really did it the right way so it's a shame it didn't last. from what i gather, michael's business partner/investor was a bit of a tool (and stupid, evidently) and so one day michael and his pal the chef just walked out. and it had only been open like three months or something! i mean like, after they had done so much work for months on end to open !
and the place was really neat, all the little rooms and fireplaces and whatnot. i think i recall michael saying he designed most of it.
anyhoo, the first couple months open i was there like once a week, no joke. and it was never crowded but everybody there would be so beautiful and stylish and i dunno-- just cool looking i guess.
like one night i walked in and adrien-brody was just chillin at one of the banquettes playing cards (or something) with richie-akiva. and then patrick-ewing strolled in, just him and two homies, no big weird entourage or anything.
and i remember michael saying he wanted to keep it like that-- just cool and quiet and DL, no fancy publicists or promoters or "wack shit like that." i was wondering if maybe he was going to change his mind eventually though.
too bad we never got a chance to see how it would all have played out.
but yay for johnny and larry !
oh ha and then do you remember the drama after Oceans21 ?
that was the space the EO boys originally wanted to open Zeppelin, remember ? but then i heard later the landlord was a bit of a nutjob, like he supposedly didn't want to allow them to even enter the premises to start construction. bizarro.
but i'd also head from another person who had been looking at the space that the residents and landlord weren't going to allow anything past a "midnight liquor license." but now i hear HotelGriffou is fine-- the hours will be "just like Freemans."
i think i recall something about maybe ONE residential tenant was being all pissy, but now that person is gone. so good for them.
oh and eehee heee--
before the EO boys, this was also the space that artan-gjoni of Norwood was going around looking for investors. supposedly he said his partners were thomas-juul.hansen and merv-matheson (who was "on board to bring in a jean-georges chef," gavin-citron. oh and umm possibly john-utendahl, was it? maybe).
and ah ha HA HAH, the whole kit and kaboodle was brought to me for "consultation" and a possible "managing partnership" and GUESS where all the business plan cost projections came from--
Gusto Ristorante e Bar Americano !
they had printouts and nightly revenues and everything !
hahhahahhahahhahahahhaaa
OH it was such a gas.
i guess you had to be there.
that was the space the EO boys originally wanted to open Zeppelin, remember ? but then i heard later the landlord was a bit of a nutjob, like he supposedly didn't want to allow them to even enter the premises to start construction. bizarro.
but i'd also head from another person who had been looking at the space that the residents and landlord weren't going to allow anything past a "midnight liquor license." but now i hear HotelGriffou is fine-- the hours will be "just like Freemans."
i think i recall something about maybe ONE residential tenant was being all pissy, but now that person is gone. so good for them.
oh and eehee heee--
before the EO boys, this was also the space that artan-gjoni of Norwood was going around looking for investors. supposedly he said his partners were thomas-juul.hansen and merv-matheson (who was "on board to bring in a jean-georges chef," gavin-citron. oh and umm possibly john-utendahl, was it? maybe).
and ah ha HA HAH, the whole kit and kaboodle was brought to me for "consultation" and a possible "managing partnership" and GUESS where all the business plan cost projections came from--
Gusto Ristorante e Bar Americano !
they had printouts and nightly revenues and everything !
hahhahahhahahhahahahhaaa
OH it was such a gas.
i guess you had to be there.
QUOTE (Dick Johnson @ May 11 2009, 11:35 AM)
Jesus Christ, finally!
WORD.
QUOTE (Inkslinger @ May 11 2009, 11:09 AM)
Woah, it only took everyone else 3 months to find out!
exactly. if this hadn't been posted in the private section all this time, the info would have been out a long time ago, but of course no one would have admitted that they got it from us.
QUOTE (abbe @ May 11 2009, 12:55 PM)
ooooh! how exciting ! yay !
"... the space that was once Marylou's, and the Penguin before that..."
oh boo, they forgot Oceans21. i'm sorry but that shit was pretty hott. even though it only lasted like 33 seconds.
ohhh i LOVED Oceans21. i was so bummed to see it close so abruptly.
i thought michael-ciccoricco did a really fantastic job. like--
that place was soooo DL, they really did it the right way so it's a shame it didn't last. from what i gather, michael's business partner/investor was a bit of a tool (and stupid, evidently) and so one day michael and his pal the chef just walked out. and it had only been open like three months or something! i mean like, after they had done so much work for months on end to open !
and the place was really neat, all the little rooms and fireplaces and whatnot. i think i recall michael saying he designed most of it.
anyhoo, the first couple months open i was there like once a week, no joke. and it was never crowded but everybody there would be so beautiful and stylish and i dunno-- just cool looking i guess.
like one night i walked in and adrien-brody was just chillin at one of the banquettes playing cards (or something) with richie-akiva. and then patrick-ewing strolled in, just him and two homies, no big weird entourage or anything.
and i remember michael saying he wanted to keep it like that-- just cool and quiet and DL, no fancy publicists or promoters or "wack shit like that." i was wondering if maybe he was going to change his mind eventually though.
too bad we never got a chance to see how it would all have played out.
but yay for johnny and larry !
"... the space that was once Marylou's, and the Penguin before that..."
oh boo, they forgot Oceans21. i'm sorry but that shit was pretty hott. even though it only lasted like 33 seconds.
ohhh i LOVED Oceans21. i was so bummed to see it close so abruptly.
i thought michael-ciccoricco did a really fantastic job. like--
that place was soooo DL, they really did it the right way so it's a shame it didn't last. from what i gather, michael's business partner/investor was a bit of a tool (and stupid, evidently) and so one day michael and his pal the chef just walked out. and it had only been open like three months or something! i mean like, after they had done so much work for months on end to open !
and the place was really neat, all the little rooms and fireplaces and whatnot. i think i recall michael saying he designed most of it.
anyhoo, the first couple months open i was there like once a week, no joke. and it was never crowded but everybody there would be so beautiful and stylish and i dunno-- just cool looking i guess.
like one night i walked in and adrien-brody was just chillin at one of the banquettes playing cards (or something) with richie-akiva. and then patrick-ewing strolled in, just him and two homies, no big weird entourage or anything.
and i remember michael saying he wanted to keep it like that-- just cool and quiet and DL, no fancy publicists or promoters or "wack shit like that." i was wondering if maybe he was going to change his mind eventually though.
too bad we never got a chance to see how it would all have played out.
but yay for johnny and larry !
never even heard of this place.
QUOTE (abbe @ May 11 2009, 12:09 PM)
before the EO boys, this was also the space that artan-gjoni of Norwood was going around looking for investors. supposedly he said his partners were thomas-juul.hansen and merv-matheson (who was "on board to bring in a jean-georges chef," gavin-citron. oh and umm possibly john-utendahl, was it? maybe).
and ah ha HA HAH, the whole kit and kaboodle was brought to me for "consultation" and a possible "managing partnership" and GUESS where all the business plan cost projections came from--
Gusto Ristorante e Bar Americano !
they had printouts and nightly revenues and everything !
hahhahahhahahhahahahhaaa
OH it was such a gas.
and ah ha HA HAH, the whole kit and kaboodle was brought to me for "consultation" and a possible "managing partnership" and GUESS where all the business plan cost projections came from--
Gusto Ristorante e Bar Americano !
they had printouts and nightly revenues and everything !
hahhahahhahahhahahahhaaa
OH it was such a gas.
lol....lol...lolololololol......................hope this is covered w/ more detail in px this 2........................................
QUOTE (john.smith @ May 11 2009, 02:33 PM)
lol....lol...lolololololol......................hope this is covered w/ more detail in px this 2........................................
HA HA HA HA HA AHAHA HA HAAAH
QUOTE (abbe @ May 11 2009, 01:09 PM)
oh ha and then do you remember the drama after Oceans21 ?
that was the space the EO boys originally wanted to open Zeppelin, remember ? but then i heard later the landlord was a bit of a nutjob, like he supposedly didn't want to allow them to even enter the premises to start construction. bizarro.
but i'd also head from another person who had been looking at the space that the residents and landlord weren't going to allow anything past a "midnight liquor license." but now i hear HotelGriffou is fine-- the hours will be "just like Freemans."
i think i recall something about maybe ONE residential tenant was being all pissy, but now that person is gone. so good for them.
oh and eehee heee--
before the EO boys, this was also the space that artan-gjoni of Norwood was going around looking for investors. supposedly he said his partners were thomas-juul.hansen and merv-matheson (who was "on board to bring in a jean-georges chef," gavin-citron. oh and umm possibly john-utendahl, was it? maybe).
and ah ha HA HAH, the whole kit and kaboodle was brought to me for "consultation" and a possible "managing partnership" and GUESS where all the business plan cost projections came from--
Gusto Ristorante e Bar Americano !
they had printouts and nightly revenues and everything !
hahhahahhahahhahahahhaaa
OH it was such a gas.
i guess you had to be there.
that was the space the EO boys originally wanted to open Zeppelin, remember ? but then i heard later the landlord was a bit of a nutjob, like he supposedly didn't want to allow them to even enter the premises to start construction. bizarro.
but i'd also head from another person who had been looking at the space that the residents and landlord weren't going to allow anything past a "midnight liquor license." but now i hear HotelGriffou is fine-- the hours will be "just like Freemans."
i think i recall something about maybe ONE residential tenant was being all pissy, but now that person is gone. so good for them.
oh and eehee heee--
before the EO boys, this was also the space that artan-gjoni of Norwood was going around looking for investors. supposedly he said his partners were thomas-juul.hansen and merv-matheson (who was "on board to bring in a jean-georges chef," gavin-citron. oh and umm possibly john-utendahl, was it? maybe).
and ah ha HA HAH, the whole kit and kaboodle was brought to me for "consultation" and a possible "managing partnership" and GUESS where all the business plan cost projections came from--
Gusto Ristorante e Bar Americano !
they had printouts and nightly revenues and everything !
hahhahahhahahhahahahhaaa
OH it was such a gas.
i guess you had to be there.
Scary!!!!!
QUOTE (john.smith @ May 11 2009, 03:33 PM)
lol....lol...lolololololol......................hope this is covered w/ more detail in px this 2........................................
Yea!!!!
If I was a food writer or blogger I would be terribly embarrassed that the restaurant industry disrespects and despises us so much that they would go to such pains to hide news from us and go over our heads straight to the mainstream media. It would be quite a blow to my overbloated ego.
Went for a drink last night and the place is hott. It's very beautifully done, with lots of familiar faces on the floor and behind the bar. Lots of the "power diners" were in the house, too - all the usual suspects - with a great mix of the cool, downtown, down-to-earth crowd. This is the first place in a long while that I've thought to myself that I would definitely keep coming back.
Yeah, they're going to give Minetta and Waverly a pretty good run for their money.
Yeah, they're going to give Minetta and Waverly a pretty good run for their money.
QUOTE (Dick Johnson @ Jun 18 2009, 10:47 AM)
Went for a drink last night and the place is hott. It's very beautifully done, with lots of familiar faces on the floor and behind the bar. Lots of the "power diners" were in the house, too - all the usual suspects - with a great mix of the cool, downtown, down-to-earth crowd. This is the first place in a long while that I've thought to myself that I would definitely keep coming back.
Yeah, they're going to give Minetta and Waverly a pretty good run for their money.
Yeah, they're going to give Minetta and Waverly a pretty good run for their money.
oh i just loooooove HotelGriffou. i am totally MOVING IN there. i might have to ask them if i can install my own wifi hee eheeee.
but ummm
what i really want to know is why the fucks peoples keep telling me i "can't blog this" and i "can't blog that" all the goddamned fucking time ?
i mean
i can't "blog"
but john-delucie CAN FUCKING TWIT whatever the fuck he pleases ?!
WHAT EVER. BITCHES
oh but ha ahaa johnny-swet did tell me later i could "blog," as long as i "be nice."
when am i ever not nice ?
i only tell the truth. you'd think peoples would appreciate it.
i have absolutely nothing negative to say about HotelGriffou.
oh okay. maybe one thing:
i wonder how many more cases of champagne glasses on that top shelf they are going to obliterate before they finally figure out they have to turn all them shits RIGHT SIDE UP.
hhahahahahahaha
when am i ever not nice ?
i only tell the truth. you'd think peoples would appreciate it.
i have absolutely nothing negative to say about HotelGriffou.
oh okay. maybe one thing:
i wonder how many more cases of champagne glasses on that top shelf they are going to obliterate before they finally figure out they have to turn all them shits RIGHT SIDE UP.
hhahahahahahaha
QUOTE (Dick Johnson @ Jun 18 2009, 10:47 AM)
Lots of the "power diners" were in the house, too - all the usual suspects -
OH. YAH
hahahaa haa during my dinner there was one sitting next table over actually !
and she was quite sweet to me for no reason at all, asking how did i enjoy my meal and everything.
and i was all:
and then:
and then:
cuz i realized she must not have recognized me at all.i wonder why the change in attitude-- it was really rather bizarro. was it my dapper guest ? or my impressive corner table ? or that owners were dropping by to chitchat ? or that larry-poston was sipping out of my wine glass ?
gawd knows she's never been that friendly before.
i'm just sayin.
looks really lovely, can't wait to go
The New Griffou Review
http://www.blackbookmag.com/article/good-n...fou-review/9392
yay!
good. now i don't have to slap him the next time i see him.
http://www.blackbookmag.com/article/good-n...fou-review/9392
yay!
good. now i don't have to slap him the next time i see him.
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