By Matt Chaban 5/15 12:32pm

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Yum! (Gothamist)

Does Battery Park City Owe Goldman Sachs a Big Thank You?

Battery Park City. Like the Upper East Side or Mill Basin, it’s the sort of out-of-the-way neighborhood you never visit unless you live there, or maybe there’s a concert going on at the Winter Garden?which feels more like the Financial District anyway, so does it count?

Well, NY1 has a report out about how Battery Park City has finally come into its own, and it is indeed a place worth visiting. Much of the credit is given to Danny Meyer for spicing up the food scene, but really, credit is due Lloyd Blankfein. Read More

By Foster Kamer 2/21 4:55pm

NYT REVIEWS REVIEWS

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Shake Shack is Now a New York Times Starred Restaurant

Some might say this is long overdue. Others may call it heresy. One thing is certain: Nobody quite expected the storied and lofty perch from which the chief New York Times dining critic sits, being used to evaluate a fast food restaurant. Even if that fast food restaurant is one of New York City’s most ballyhooed and fiercely debated—if not, the most of those—Shake Shack. Read More

By Matt Chaban 1/12 11:47am

Mr. Ross' Neighborhood

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Danny Meyer Taking Over Hudson Yards, the World

As if there was not enough anticipation surrounding the construction of Hudson Yards, here is probably the one reason to trump any other: Danny Meyer will be setting up shop on the Far West Side.

The Related Companies and Union Square Hospitality announced a new partnership today, whereby Steve Ross and his globetrotting development company will take a stake in Union Square Events. While not encompassing all of the restauranteurs operations, USE offers more than just catering but also runs the sports venue operations for Mr. Meyers sprawling eatery empire, and now it will do even more. So no fine dining, necessarily, but Mr. Meyer will be offering a range of culinary options, from private residential dining to catering events in Hudson Yards buildings as well as operating restaurants and outdoor cafes. Read More

By Foster Kamer 8/09/11 1:32pm

Restaurant Wars!

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Danny Meyer’s Best Week Ever Harshed On by Bloomberg Critic’s Picnic Basket Bummer

Shack Shack deity and New York’s most customer-friendly restaurateur Danny Meyer recently got The New York Times Magazine treatment in a profile that makes him look less like a businessman and more like a walking, breathing, hospitality-obsessed god-amongst-men. Yet: a picnic basket could put a dent in what may be some of the best publicity to ever hit the pages of The Times for a service industry owner. Hey, Boo Boo, indeed. Read More

By Matt Chaban 3/30/11 5:35pm

From the Paper

Meyer, My! The Whitney's Latest Acquisition

Last Wednesday, Danny Meyer, maybe the city’s most successful restaurateur, quietly opened a new 40-seat eatery, Untitled, in the Whitney Museum’s basement–that is, if the bright, soaring space tucked beneath the Madison Avenue monolith by architect Marcel Breuer can rightly be called a basement. “This was the case of the context driving the idea, or Read More

By Rachel Corbett 2/15/11 6:48pm

Po-Mo Meets Stumptown

Whitney Gets No-Name Cafe

The Danny Meyer restaurant opening in the Whitney Museum next month now has a (preciously post-modern) name: “Untitled.”

Meyer’s Union Square Hospitality Group is re-imagining the former Sarabeth’s space as an all-day breakfast spot inspired, it says, by vintage Madison Avenue coffee shops. Chef Chris Bradley, late of Gramercy Tavern, will serve seasonal staples seven days Read More