One late winter afternoon at Chelsea Market, Sarma Melngailis was mulling potential colors for the sign outside her new raw vegan juice bar and takeaway, One Lucky Duck, which had since Nov. 30 inhabited an airy space with its own entrance on 15th Street. “If you have everything green related to a vegan juice bar Read More
Jeffrey Chodorow has invested many, many millions of dollars in the restaurant business. And he says his restaurants did over a quarter of a billion dollars in sales last year. But he’s not content.
He famously tussled with chef Rocco DiSpirito on the NBC reality show The Restaurant (and, later, in a series of Read More
We found out this morning from Jeffrey Chodorow that the uber-restaurateur will sign a 7,000-square-foot lease today for a 140-seat restaurant in the Empire Hotel at 63rd Street and Broadway.
Mr. Chodorow tells The Observer he’s planning to make the restaurant "a classic American steakhouse."
At the Monday afternoon presentation of NBC’s prime-time line-up at Radio City Music Hall, ad buyers were treated to a rare sight: a solemn Jeff Zucker.
By his somber expression, the head of the NBC Universal Television Group seemed to be carrying the abysmal performance of Father of the Pride, LAX and Hawaii, and the Read More
Schrager v. Gerber: Déjà Vu All Over Again
On May 10, the day that hotelier Ian Schrager sued his tenant at the Paramount Hotel, Whiskey operator Rande Gerber, for breach of contract, there was a lot of press, but little surprise.
It certainly wasn’t the first time that Mr. Schrager had picked a fight with Read More
