• Danny Meyer's latest outpost, the concession stand in Central Park called Public Fare, officially opens its takeout window tomorrow. [Eater, GS]
• The paper is off the windows at the Standard Grill, the new resto inside Andre Balazs's Standard hotel. Grub Street snapped some pics through the glass. [GS]
• Geoffrey…
• Monkey Bar doesn't open for another week—and good luck getting it once it does—but The Feed nabbed a copy of the menu at a friends-and-family dinner on Friday night. You know, just in case you're interested to see what Graydon Carter's friends will be eating for the next few months. [TONY]
• For its part, Eater has…
State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver turns 65 today. Rudy Giuliani's ex-wife, Donna Hanover, is 59. Real estate developer Francis Greenburger is 60. Peter Gabriel is turning 59. Robbie Williams is 35. Stockard Channing turns 65. Jerry Springer is 65. And Henry Rollins turns 48. People celebrating their birthdays this…
New York nightlife baron David Rabin is the owner of a handful of bars, clubs, and restaurants including Union Bar, Double Seven, Los Dados, and the now-shuttered Lotus. He's also the president of the New York Nightlife Association.
Jimmy Rodriguez, owner of Jimmy's Downtown (and Uptown) is feuding with Lotus owner David Rabin. Rodriguez charges that Lotus' exclusivity is responsible for it's financial losses and is technically illegal: "When you have a liquor license, you can�t choose who comes inside. The law says if you have a liquor license,…
Lotus owner (and President of the New York Night Life Association) David Rabin responds to the New York Press, who ranked him #25 on their "Most Loathsome New Yorkers" list: "I work too fucking hard for some half-baked 'journalists,' who not only can't outdance me, they can neither out-think nor out-write me, to take…
Beauty Bar and Barmacy owner Paul Devitt is opening a new club in Chelsea called Aquarium on West 29th between 10th and 11th. The club will contain massive aquariums that will contain both sea-life and humans. Lotus owner David Rabin points out that the original Limelight in Atlanta had a shark tank underneath the…
Manhattan developer Steven Touhey has proposed to build a 32-story luxury building in the middle of the meatpacking district. Lotus owner, David Rabin, in response, whines about gentrification, complaining that there would be no place left in Manhattan "to go out." You know, besides the rest of Manhattan.
The Last…
Centro-Fly co-owner, David Baxley, on the antiquated cabaret law that prevents unlicensed bars and clubs from allowing patrons to dance:
"The cabaret law itself is absurd. It's totalitarian. Two years ago the only places it was illegal to dance were Manhattan and Afghanistan. And now you can dance in Afghanistan,"
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