The restaurant preview issue: NY Times Dining in 60 seconds

by Nicole Weston, Posted Sep 6th 2006 @ 11:01AM

From the sound of it, everyone who's anyone is opening a restaurant in New York, from Graydon Carter (editor of Vanity Fair) to chefs like Gordon Ramsey. Hotel restaurants are getting revamped to compete with non-hotel restaurants and chefs who haven't been seen for years, like Michael Lomonaco, the chef from Windows on the World, the restaurant at the World Trade Center.

As chefs and restaurants try to turn names into global brands, they are either bringing branches of existing restaurants to New York, or taking them out of New York and to other parts of the country. Is the dining scene in NY loosing some of its individuality? And do you have to be a multi-national powerhouse to make it in the city?

Last year's hits and misses and what it's like in the kitchen at Buddakan.

September restaurant openings, including a bar that is staffed by women in designer bikinis, and openings to look forward to later in fall.

Frank Bruni dines at Japonais and gives it 1 star.

Mark Bittman, the minimalist, makes blueberry cobbler.

Broadway Panhandler

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