Steve Hanson Gets Blessing for Vento’s Basement Lounge

Posted 08/14/08 in Grub Street: NewsFeed

Community Board 2 will vote on the Beatrice Inn next month.

Tags: beatrice inn, community board 2, dos caminos, steve hanson, vento

What's the City’s Greenest Restaurant™?

Posted 02/15/08 in Grub Street: NewsFeed

Self-described “vegetarian bistro” Counter, home of the iridium martini, has become a Certified Green Restaurant™ (we’re required to put a ™ after that, or they’ll force us to drink iridium). Becoming a truly green restaurant in the eyes of the Green Restaurant Association doesn’t happen overnight, but Counter has taken the initial steps by using nontoxic chemicals, energy-efficient lighting, recycling used fryer oil, and using occupancy-sensing lights. Not all green restaurants seek the GRA’s blessing (take what might be the greenest of them all, Birdbath), but for good measure we broke the certified restaurants down according to their current ratings.

Tags: atlantic grill, blue water grill, candle cafe, counter, dos caminos, fiamma, gusto grilled organics, isabella's, le pain quotidien, primehouse new york, ruby foo's, vento

B.R. Guest to Hop the Barbecue Gravy Train?

Posted 07/20/07 in Grub Street: NewsFeed

Now that barbecue has utterly conquered New York, the coast is clear for even the most conservative of restaurant companies to move in and fire up their pits. Even B.R. Guest, the massive company behind such ultrasafe properties as Dos Caminos, Vento, and Ruby Foo’s has one in the works, we hear from one of our best restaurant-industry sources, a businessman with ties to the group.

Tags: b.r. guest, barbecue, dos caminos, eric ripert, gramercy, ruby foo's, steve hanson, vento