Showing posts with label Mission Cantina. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mission Cantina. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 6, 2016

FOOD BIZ | High Line Hotspot Opens Next Month

Alta Linea will open at the High Line Hotel in
May. The chef is Francis Peabody. Photo by
 JT Marlin.
Florence Fabricant’s food column in The New York Times today noted that Alta Linea–High Line in Italian–will reopen next month. 

That seasonal courtyard restaurant is operated by Joe Campanale at the High Line Hotel on 10th Avenue.
Francis Peabody (L) and his mother-in-law, Alice
Tepper Marlin. Photo by JT Marlin. 

The new chef will be Francis Peabody, who was previously at dell’Anima and Mission Cantina.

Peabody knows what Campanale likes, since dell'Anima has since  2007 offered rustic Italian cooking. 


The wine list there is entirely Italian, and seeks to buy from small producers of natural and organic (specifically biodynamic) wines.

Alta Linea will be on the courtyard facing the wildly popular High Line, between 20th and 21st Streets. 

It will be visible from the High Line as a hotspot on 10th Avenue, on the west end of the block mostly occupied by the General Theological Seminary.



Wednesday, April 16, 2014

FOOD BIZ | NYC's 10 "Hottest" Restaurants

Empire Diner in Chelsea - You Can
Be a Hot Venue with a Tiny Kitchen! 
The Spring 2014 edition of the quarterly report from Zagat, written by Kelly Dobkin, came out last month. Brooklyn (2) came in second after Greenwich Village (5) in the number of restaurants mentioned.

Chelsea, Harlem and the Lower East Side each got one restaurant. Missing boroughs: Bronx, Queens, Staten Island.

Analyzing by type of food, two were "American" and the other eight were described as: New American, Mexican, Sushi, "Diner", Italian, Mediterranean, Seafood, and French.

What interests me from the business side is that the Empire Diner has of necessity a small kitchen and it still manages to get itself into the top 10 list for hot restaurants.

1 The Cecil
American • Harlem 

2  Mission Cantina
Mexican • Lower East Side

3  Dover
New American • Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn

4 Sushi Nakazawa
Sushi • West Village 

5 Empire Diner
Diner • Chelsea

6 All'onda
Italian • Greenwich Village

7 Margaux
Mediterranean • Greenwich Village

8 The Clam
Seafood • West Village

9 Narcissa Restaurant
American • East Village

10 French Louie
French • Boerum Hill, Brooklyn