Falai Said to Be Considering Standand Hotel Cafe Space

Meatpacking District: While this by no means confirms this project will come to fruition, we hear from a vendor and another source that Iacopo Falai, the owner of downtown's Falai trifecta, engaged in early talks to open up a space in the new Standard Hotel, located right off the High Line in MePa. Now, the main restaurant space here is massive—not at all Falai-scaled—and already put aside for a chophouse run by ex-Lever House chef Dan Silverman. But there is a tiny retail space, smaller than any of Falai's other locations, on the ground floor, that we hear he has been considering. And if he doesn't go through with it, we hope some other small scale operators (a Chikalicious? an Abraco?) look into it—we'd hate to see it open as run of the mill retail.
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