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All Posts Tagged: ‘washington heights’

Openings 

5/23/08

11:00 AM

Modern-Day El Morocco Brings Zebra Print to Hamilton Heights

Many have tried to replicate the legendary El Morocco nightclub (Plan B, most recently) but few have actually taken the name. That’ll change when El Morocco opens in Hamilton Heights on June 4 with a VIP party. With the blessing of the family of one of the original owners (for what that’s worth!), Michelle Rodriguez (not the actress) spent the past two years meticulously recreating the old hot-spot via a zebra-print wall and specially carved palm trees, throwing in some plasma screens and a sound-and-light system that would blow the toupee off of Sinatra. “Leopard girls” will work a “leopard room” during Sunday-night gay parties as well as during hip-hop and Latin nights. The 10,000-square-foot space accommodates about 600 and, judging by the lines at the now-defunct Copacabana (the owners of that venue are holding their nights at Columbus 72 while they search for a new space), the place will be packed. Rodiguez already plans to open another 12,000-square-foot club, the Tropicana, in the Bronx in three weeks. Bust out the sequins and cha-cha heels, chicas.

El Morocco, 3435 Broadway, at 145th St.; 212-939-0909, ElMoroccoNYC.com

The New York Diet 

5/13/08

1:00 PM

Writer-Actor Lin-Manuel Miranda Tells Where to Go In the Heights

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Looking uptown.Photo: Joan Marcus

The writer and actor Lin-Manuel Miranda didn't actually grow up in Washington Heights, the milieu of his highly nostalgic Broadway smash, In the Heights. "I missed the cutoff by about ten blocks," the outed Inwood native revealed to us. But that means—as evidenced by his favorite neighborhood hangs, below—he's just got even more of upper Manhattan figured out.

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Mediavore 

5/ 5/08

10:00 AM

Danny Meyer in Harlem; El Morocco in Washington Heights

• Danny Meyer is being courted to open a café in Harlem. [NYT]

• The restaurant world’s royalty showed up at the opening of Alain Ducasse’s Benoit last week; Geoffrey Zakarian said his new West 44th Street restaurant should open in January. [NYP]

• Don’t worry about safety at Studio B’s new rooftop area, since the wire mesh encircling it totally makes it look not at all dangerous. [New York Shitty]

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Mediavore 

4/30/08

10:00 AM

Smoothies at Starbucks; Searching for New Sandwiches

• In an effort to lure back customers, Starbucks will start offering “smoothie-like drinks made with fresh fruit and whey powder,” though this raises the question of who prefers a “smoothie-like” drink to an actual smoothie. [WSJ]

• Casey and Dale from Top Chef Miami still keep in touch, meaning she knows why Dale isn’t dating Jack from Project Runway anymore. [Slashfood]

• Diners think restaurant inspections protect them much more than they actually do. [Science Daily]

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