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| | The Monkey Bar | | | “The management gauged the bustle at sister steak joints Michael Jordan's and Strip House and decided a big dose of cow might liven things up.” —nymag | | Cuisine: Steakhouse |
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| | | | | | MIDTOWN EAST—The famed Monkey Bar, located in the the Hotel Elysee, will close for an overhaul after dinner service tonight, The Glazier Group announced today. The continental, slightly steak-slanting, restaurant will be taken given an Asian makeover, complete with the installation of Patricia Yeo ... Read More | | | | | | Graydon Carter makes Monkey Bar his own.Photo: Getty Images, Shanna Ravindra Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter, whose ownership turned the quiet Waverly Inn into one of the city's most sought-after reservations, is the mystery figure buying Monkey Bar, the Times is reporting. The restaurant will c... Read More | | | | | | Chris Cheung: on to the next thing.Photo courtesy Chris CheungBret Thorn, over at Nation’s Restaurant News, checks in today with Chris Cheung, the suddenly former chef of Monkey Bar. Cheung is still employed by former Monkey Bar owner the Glazier Group and may be offered a corporate position there, ... Read More | | | | | | Monkey Bar was sold today by its owners, the Glazier Group, Grub Street has learned. The restaurant, which has struggled over the past few years, was not open for business today. A source close to the restaurant said there were new owners but could not identify them. Expect an official statement soo... Read More | | | | | | Yesterday the news broke that the Glazier Group had sold the ill-fated Midtown standby (which they had owned for 14 years), Monkey Bar. And last night Flo Fab unveiled exactly who the owners were unloading the property onto: the one and only Vanity Fair editor, Waverly Inn owner, and notorious fat c... Read More | | | | | | Graydon Carter is buying The Monkey Bar with two other partners. Read More | | | | | | Kalina, 5/3/07 MIDTOWN EAST—We have it on good authority that Patricia Yeo has parted ways with Monkey Bar, the restaurant just a few months out of an overhaul, but an overhaul that has not been met warmly by the critics (with a score of 24, the worst Indexing restaurant in New York at present). ... Read More | | | | | | Kalina, 5/3/07 Above, the new Monkey Bar barroom at around 4 PM yesterday, just before open. Surely the dining room will emerge having undergone a more thorough renovation, but the new front room looks quite a bit like old one, albeit a bit spruced. The headline here, however, is the new menu. ... Read More | | | | | | The editor of Vanity Fair and an owner of the Waverly Inn in Greenwich Village, has bought The Monkey Bar with two other partners. Read More | | | | | | Chris Cheung isn't monkeying around.Photo courtesy Chris CheungWe've always liked Chris Cheung, going back to the days when the young Long Island–born chef was trying to reinvent Asian fusion from the Chinese side at Almond Flower in Chinatown. (His exit from the place, and its epic aftermath, made ... Read More | | | |
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