Steve Lewis brings news that promoter Danny A is opening the ground floor of Café Bari to late-night noshing. The name, of course, will be Downstairs, since Danny runs the second-floor lounge Upstairs. The vegetarian pizza will be named after Marquee doorman Wass, the bagel and lox after Mark Baker of Lotus and Mansion, and the chamomile tea after Lewis himself. There will also be a 1 Oak cheeseburger and a Marquee macaroni and cheese. Wait, are they calling these places cheesy?

Danny A Opens a Late-Night Eatery. Funny, You Don't Look Newish... [Good Night Mr. Lewis]

This weekend we were combing Broadway for an outfit that would get us into Upstairs, Danny A’s club on the second floor of Café Bari (and the location of Diddy’s most recent fisticuffs), when we passed the café/club itself and saw its once intimidating velvet rope doing its day job: guarding a display table of rather foul-looking dishes. Mind you, this wasn’t kitschy plastic display food like in Japan, but an actual burger, pizza, and pasta exposed to the elements all day. It took away whatever remaining luster this place had.