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The EMM Group only just left the Bowery shuttering its club Finale last week, and its adjoining clubstaurant the General last fall, but the space already has a taker. Chris Santos, the Chopped judge and executive chef/partner at The Stanton Social and Beauty & Essex, two of the Lower East Side's most successful monster nightclubs/restaurants, is planning a restaurant for the General space. Earlier this week Bowery Boogie reported the rumor that the Tao Group was taking over 199 Bowery and this would seem to confirm that — both Stanton Social and Beauty & Essex are Tao properties. The deal was just signed, according to a rep, so the name and the concept are still up in the air.