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By 2003, the company had twelve restaurants open, and the first franchise opened in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. In April 2003, one scene from the movie Johnny English takes place in a restaurant of YO! Sushi. Johnny English gets his tie stuck in the conveyor belt. Two new franchises opened in 2007, one in Dublin, the other in Moscow.
Le Cirque New York closed on January 1, 2018, due to rising rent costs and other operational challenges, [11] [1] but operated private events on a boat in 2019. [17] Its future plans are unknown as of 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic 's impact on the restaurant industry [ 18 ] and the 2020 death of founder Sirio Maccioni.
Torrisi is an Italian restaurant located in the Puck Building in New York City in the neighborhood of Nolita opened by Major Food Group nearby their old first restaurant Torrisi Italian Specialties. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Established in December 2022, the business was included in The New York Times 's 2023 list of the 50 best restaurants in the ...
This is an incomplete list of notable restaurants in New York City. New York City’s restaurant industry had 23,650 establishments in 2019. New York City’s restaurant industry had 23,650 establishments in 2019.
In 1971, the chain sold four of its remaining restaurants to the Riese Organization, also controlled by the Riese brothers, mostly removing it from the "white tablecloth" restaurant business, and a number of the old locations had been turned into steakhouse-themed outlets. In June 1975, the former parent company, Longchamps, Inc., filed for ...
Ratner's was founded in 1905 by Jacob Harmatz and his brother-in-law Alex Ratner, who supposedly flipped a coin to decide whose name would be on the sign. [1] Ratner sold his share in the restaurant to Harmatz in 1918, and it remained in the Harmatz family from then on.
Lespinasse was a fine dining establishment initially run by and primarily associated with executive chef Gray Kunz (1955–2020). It was located in the St. Regis New York hotel in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.
The Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York foreclosed on the hotel in 1932 and bought the building for $50,000 at an auction that November. [82] [83] Many of the Belleclaire's long-term occupants moved away during the Great Depression, [53] and The New York Times wrote that the Belleclaire had "lost any claim to distinction" by the 1930s. [24]