| |  | Grayz | | | “Gray Kunz has refurbished the onetime Rockefeller townhouse so it's now fit for festive finger food and cocktails upstairs, and private fetes below.” —nymag | | Cuisine: American (New), American |
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| | | | | | Crain’s reports today what many had already guessed: Grayz will close at the end of the year. Kunz was pushed out of the restaurant six months ago, and it made no sense to continue operating a place named for a guy who’s no longer there. On our last visit, we found Grayz less than half full. There ... Read More | | | | | | Whatever he does, Gray Kunz seems to take his time. After he left the four-star Lespinasse, it was six years until he opened a new restaurant, Café Gray, which was much delayed—the last to appear of the originally announced restaurants in the Time-Warner Center.Then, Grayz was announced. The T... Read More | | | | | | Grayz is very much a grown up restaurant, though that Z at the end has always struck me as an ill conceived youthful affectation. It only recently occurred to me that it’s a homophone, tweaking the chef’s surname to play on the on the small plates grazing concept. Ok, I get it, but I’m still not ... Read More | | | | | | Midtown: This news is a long time coming: Crain's reports that the ownership of Grayz has finally admitted that founder and four star chef Gray Kunz is no longer involved in the restaurant. They plan to close Grayz at the end of the month:"The restaurant's owner, Stephen Distler, plans to close... Read More | | | | | | Grayz Cocktails and hors d’oeuvres get the Gray Kunz treatment at Grayz, the new Midtown Eclectic set in the Rockefeller townhouse that was formerly home to Aquavit; the meandering space (a series of cozy chambers leading to a transporting atrium) will offer a f... Read More | | | | | | Grayz, the bar. Courtesy of Grayz.net. Grayz, Gray Kunz's new midtown restaurant, long the subject of anticipation and curiosity, is now open for dinner, Monday to Saturday 5 P - 12 AM (it is not yet open for lunch). What exactly the chef is cooking has been one of the key questions here from t... Read More | | | | | | When you’re navigating nightlife for the perfect party, Midtown is rarely on your mind. Avoid the herd mentality and head north to Grayz, the much-anticipated new cocktail lounge from superstar chef Gray Kunz. There you will graze (Grayz = graze. Get it?) on fine finger foods in a Masters of the Uni... Read More | | | | | | Left: Café Gray; Right: GrayzCafé Gray will shortly be closing, a victim of sky-high rents at the Time Warner Center. That will leave the talented chef, Gray Kunz, with just one restaurant, Grayz, which struggles with problems with its own.Linking both restaurants is one of this town’s g... Read More | | | | | | TIME WARNER CENTER—Café Gray, Gray Kuntz's eponymous restaurant in the Time Warner Center is quietly testing out menu items for Grayz, Kuntz's new haute small plates and private function restaurant coming soon, "Fall," to 13-15 West 54th Street. In the brasserie area of Cafe Gray, yo... Read More | | | | | | The current chapter of the Gray Kunz saga has come to an end, and not the one that the great chef, or his talents, deserved. Having first been pushed out of Cafe Gray, and subsequently the preposterous small-plates restaurant that bore his name (albeit in hip-hop fashion), Gray Kunz no longer has a... Read More | | | |
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