NEW YORK CITY— TONY's Feed blog gets a statement from Grant Achatz on all those exciting Alinea NYC rumors. He was thinking about it, but not so much anymore: "We started aggressively looking for spaces in Manhattan about two months ago...That of course prompted some serious conversation between myself and [Alinea partner] Nick...New York carries that stigma of being the big pond. And of course chefs outside of the big pond, for whatever reason, feel they need to enter that arena to prove themselves. Basically that amounts to ego as the impetus for a New York opening. It didn’t take long to realize that wasn’t a good enough reason to open there." [The Feed]
MIDTOWN WEST— The newest restaurant from the owners of Serafina, Brasserie Cognac de Monsieur Ballon, opens in just about two weeks, and they've just announced the new chef: "Vittorio Assaf and Fabio Granato, who made their names with the Italian restaurants Serafina and the Japanese place Geisha, will segue from spaghetti and sushi to steak au poivre. As chef of their new Brasserie Cognac de Monsieur Ballon, they've hired Florian Hugo, a dapper, direct descendant of the writer Victor Hugo, who once cooked for Alain Ducasse." [NYP]
MEATPACKING DISTRICT— Imbible has the word on the expansion of Brass Monkey: As per an email from owner Sean Cunningham: 'We are opening another bar with a roof deck, overlooking the Hudson River. We are expecting the build-out to be finished at the start of June...It's an extension of Brass Monkey. We've renovated the bathrooms and hallway downstairs, and the outside deck is going to look fantastic.' There's talk of the additional space being adapted into a beer garden." [Imbible]
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