Veal with sweetbreads at SD26 (Photograph: Virginia Rollison)
San Domenico’s Tony May has passed the family torch to his daughter Marisa at the new SD26, writes Jay Cheshes, who awards the restaurant four stars. It’s “enormous, modern and frenetic—the opposite of its stuffy forerunner.” [TONY]
Three-star Russian chain Mari Vanna “trades in both pre- and post-Soviet kitsch,” but “you pay for the spectacle as much as for the food.” [TONY]
Eater kicked off the NYC Wine & Food Festival a few weeks early at Marisa and Tony May’s soon-to-open SD26 last night. Serious chef porn in attendance. [Eater]
Ken Friedman issues a dignified mea culpa about the untimely shuttering of the John Dory. [Grub Street]
The owners of Bernie Madoff’s favorite fish shack, Lure, will take over the street-level dining room at Chinatown Brasserie this December. [Citysearch]
Restaurant Girl—the real one—interviews Andrew Carmellini. Of Locanda Verde’s success in the former Ago space he says, “This place just needed some love. [Restaurant Girl]
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