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The Last Days of Bottle Service?
Nightlife types pontificate on the future of the industry's most hated institution.
Posted 09/16/08 in Grub Street : Models and Bottles
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Plumber Bummer at 1Oak
Flooding on Saturday had nothing to do with the tropical-storm warning.
Posted 09/08/08 in Grub Street : Models and Bottles
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Some of Scott Sartiano’s Best Girlfriends Are Asian
So he couldn’t have fired waitresses because of their skin color.
Posted 08/25/08 in Grub Street : NewsFeed
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Turmoil at Pink Elephant, Mansion, 1Oak, and Madison
Scott Sartiano is being sued by two waitresses who claim they were fired because he wanted an all-white staff.
Posted 08/22/08 in Grub Street : NewsFeed
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Cipriani Beats Out Waverly Inn As ‘Favorite’ Restaurant for ‘Page Six’
1Oak and Marquee also rank highly, perhaps because of their publicists.
Posted 08/14/08 in Grub Street : NewsFeed
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Local Produce Not Always Carbon-Friendly; Scores East to File for Bankruptcy?
Plus: Alain Ducasse ditches France, Florent Morellet keeps a secret about what will replace his diner, and more, in our morning news roundup.
Posted 06/25/08 in Grub Street : Mediavore
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1OAK Owners Deny Accusations of Covering Up Hate Crime
Richie Akiva and Scott Sartiano say they did everything they could to help the victims of an assault that occured Wednesday.
Posted 06/24/08 in Grub Street : NewsFeed
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Cindy McCain Accused of Stealing Another Recipe; Midwest Floods Are Bad News for Food Prices
Plus, spicy food actually can cause restless sleep, why Europeans like Italian food, and more, in our morning digest of news and gossip.
Posted 06/17/08 in Grub Street : Mediavore
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Bar Martignetti Sponsors the Arts; 1 Oak Invades Canada
The 1 Oak team is headed to Montreal to celebrate the F1 Grand Prix at Time Supperclub, and they want you to join them!
Posted 05/29/08 in Grub Street : NewsFeed
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Richie Akiva Isn’t Feeling Anthony Martignetti's ‘Butter Substitute’
Butter owner Richie Akiva probably won't be attending Bar Martignetti's I Can't Believe It's Not Butter party.
Posted 05/27/08 in Grub Street : NewsFeed
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A First Look at Eden and Opera, Opening June 3
Memorial Day weekend is upon us, and what better way to ring it in than with — oh, yes — another rooftop bar.
Posted 05/23/08 in Grub Street : Openings
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Prime Upstages 1 Oak by Offering Lindsay Lohan $11K
In a ploy to ride the publicity coattails of 1 Oak, where Lindsay Lohan is said to have taken someone else’s fur coat, a rival club owner is offering to take LiLo on a $11,000 shopping spree.
Posted 05/21/08 in Grub Street : NewsFeed
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Eden Opens This Thursday, Without 1 Oak Team
The guys from 1 Oak won’t be doing the rooftop at Opera (formerly China Club) after all. Free vodka should take the hurt off.
Posted 05/19/08 in Grub Street : NewsFeed
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Team From 1 Oak Makes China Club's Roof the Height of Luxury
The Vongerichten-fication of the China Club was a long time coming, and today Steve Lewis reveals that none other than the team behind 1 Oak will be behind the indoor-outdoor rooftop named Eden.
Posted 05/15/08 in Grub Street : NewsFeed
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Tenjune Doorman Aalex Julian Nixes Kevin Connolly's Entourage
The club's gatekeeper knows just who to expect when the club hosts after-parties for the Tribeca Film Festival this weekend.
Posted 04/23/08 in Grub Street : Ask a Waiter
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Board Denies 1 Oak Plaintiff, Smiles on Kafana and Frank's
Community Board 3 didn't want to booze up a cheap Italian spot coming to St. Marks Place but granted wine to the city's first Serbian restaurant.
Posted 04/15/08 in Grub Street : NewsFeed
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Dave Chappelle Tiffs With the Wife at Coffee Shop, ‘Entourage’-ers Talk Movie at 1 Oak?
This week’s juiciest bit of celeb-sighting gossip was, of course, the Post’s report that after a performer dumped a drink on Demi and Ashton, Box honcho Simon Hammerstein sent an e-mail to his partner and a GM saying, “I can’t stand those two” — apparently because they’re “so far up their own arses” and “don’t spend anything” — “and I applaud whoever spilt a drink on them.” We’re thinking Kid Rock got kinder treatment when he went to Southern Hospitality, or there would’ve been a Tommy Lee–style throwdown.
Posted 01/03/08 in Grub Street : Celebrity Settings
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1 Oak Open for New Year's Eve, Femme Fatale Will Try Again Next Year
A hearty congrats to 1 Oak on its New Year’s Eve invite — we’re not sure whether the two pistols are an homage to Guns N’ Roses or whether they’re to say that the bouncers will be packing à la Opus 22, but whatever. One boîte that won’t be open for New Year's as hoped is Emma Cleary’s Femme Fatale. Cleary had her Christmas party at Jur et Nuit in midtown, so we’re thinking it’s going to be a while till champers flows again in the old Double Happiness space. Until then, we welcome the tourists and their outdated guidebooks. Earlier: Femme Fatale Puts the Wrecking Ball to Double Happiness Related: Happy New Year [Down by the Hipster]
Posted 12/31/07 in Grub Street : NewsFeed
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Rachael Ray Continues Food Network Domination; New Year's Day Brunches
With Batali and Emeril out of her way, “homegrown star” Rachael Ray has just inked a two-year deal for a new prime-time series on the Food Network. [Eater] It’s nothing he hasn’t said before, but the wordiness of some menus gets on the Bruni’s nerves. [Diner’s Journal/NYT] Forget turducken: British chef Phillip Corrick has created a monster that involves at least 48 birds of a dozen different species and feeds 125 people. [Daily Mail]
Posted 12/18/07 in Grub Street : Mediavore
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Spoiler Alert: We See the Writing on 1 Oak's Wall
Score! We finally made it past 1 Oak’s egalitarian velvet ropes on Friday for 1 Model Management’s party. With owners Richie Akiva and Scott Sartiano making the rounds amid pals like Eugene Remm of Tenjune, we couldn’t sneak any photos beyond the ones you see here of the wall of stacked golden letters and the bathroom’s golden basins and pistol art, so we’ll have to walk you through the space the old-fashioned way.
Posted 12/17/07 in Grub Street : Openings
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