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• SHO TIME

  FIDI NEWBIE DEFIES BAD ECONOMY, NAME

  August 20, 2008 - THIS fall, the city won't see a restaurant opening more daring than this one. SHO Shaun Hergatt is bringing a chef's exotic, expensive brand of South Beach-honed, poly-cultural cooking to...more >

• GO TO MATS

  JGV'S GREAT ADVENTURE

  August 13, 2008 - 'IT'S an adventurous dish," warns the waiter at Matsugen when I ask for the house special soba noodle dish. The dish includes 10-odd veggies and essences and is anchored by a gleaming...more >

• NO BOOZE, WE LOSE

  HURTING CIPRIANIS WON'T HELP NYC

  August 6, 2008 - THE State Liquor Authority might yank Arrigo and Giuseppe Cipriani's liquor license this month. Would the agency really take such a step, which would have consequences far beyond denying us the...more >

• THE ITALIAN JOB

  THE KNIVES ARE OUT AT CITY'S FINEST RISTORANTES

  July 30, 2008 - JUST in time to rain on Scott Conant's Scarpetta parade on West 14th Street, his estranged former partners uptown made a splash twice in the past week - relaunching L'Impero as racily...more >

• CHEF SEARCH

  WHERE ARE THE GREAT CHEFS OF NYC?

  July 23, 2008 - IT'S 2008. Do you know where your chef, executive chef or "consulting chef" is? Very likely not in the restaurant where you're eating. The frenzy for rock-star glory has...more >

• CRAZY ATES!

  OCTOPUS GETS FANCY-PANTS NYC CUISINE MAKEOVER

  July 16, 2008 - NO, you haven't had too many margaritas - that's really octopus on your plate. Traditionally confined to old-school Greek and Italian menus, the lowly cephalopod has recently been promoted to...more >

• ALLORO A NEW ITALIAN WITH ALLURE

  July 9, 2008 - 'THE baby is cute," the woman at new Alloro was saying to the man at her table. "Honey, every baby is cute." "Some babies aren't cute." And even more restaurants...more >

• PAIN IN THE BRASSERIE

  THIS ROYALTON HAS ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT

  July 2, 2008 - SOME damn good food cowers in the gloom of Brasserie 44, the modern-American café interred behind the lobby of the "re-imagined" (i.e., ruined) Royalton. But you'll pay dearly for...more >

• SCRAM DOMENICO

  CENTRAL PARK SOUTH FIXTURE SEEKS NEW LIFE AT ODD SPACE

  June 25, 2008 - LOTS of Manhattan restaurants move, usually to avoid rent increases or to become bigger or smaller. Aquavit went from West 54th Street to East 55th, and Aureole will soon exit East 61st Street for...more >

• BLASÉ FARE

  BENOIT LEAVES SENSES UNAROUSED

  June 18, 2008 - ALAIN Ducasse's new Benoit just won't let go of La Cote Basque, Jean-Jacques Rachou's beloved temple of grand-style French gastronomy that long occupied Benoit's Midtown digs...more >