The Four Seasons Restaurant, modernist shrine of food and power, celebrated its 50th anniversary on Thursday night. It was cold for June, but fortunately the red carpet was made of always-in-season Astroturf. “The red carpet is green,” co-owner Julian Niccolini lamented. “Alex wanted it to be pink.” He was referring to co-owner Alex Read More
“With friends like you, who needs relatives?” quipped Alex von Bidder, co-owner of the illustrious Four Seasons restaurant, after enduring a rollicking tongue-lashing on Tuesday night, May 5, from such luminaries as Pete Peterson, Martha Stewart and Liz Smith.
Hotelier Jonathan Tisch and restaurateur Drew Nieporent also piled on, during a Friars Club-style roast of Read More
“Ladies and gentlemen, let it rock!” charismatic restaurateur Julian Niccolini announced as sultry singer Diego Garcia kicked off a special live performance at the Four Seasons on Thursday, April 30.
The occassion was Mr. Niccolini’s birthday—his 21st, if you believe the winking invite.
“Fifty-six, actually,” noted the irreverent impresario, dressed dapperly as ever in a Read More
“Quiet for the beginning of September” is how Alex von Bidder, the co–general manager of the Four Seasons, remembered the restaurant’s Grill Room on Sept. 10. The restaurant would do a total of 52 “covers” (or meals) when 80 is closer to the norm, and no one was seated in the balcony area that overlooks Read More
