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| | | | | | Smith & Wollensky isn’t quite the dean of New York steakhouses, but at thirty years old, it predates most this city’s beef emporiums. There are now S&W’s in nine cities. In New York alone, the same restaurant group also owns Post House and Quality Meats, in addition to the flagship at 49th &... Read More | | | | | | The service was great, and the seafood platter appetizer, especially the jumbo prawn cocktail, was phenomenal. However, this is a steakhouse, and I must admit that I've had better steak for about half the price. Read More | | | | | | Don't like this place. The salad was a head of iceberg lettuce on a plate. The steak was tough. Good thing it was a business lunch and I wasn't paying. Read More | | | | | | Patina Restaurant Group inked a $94.7 million deal to purchase Smith & Wollensky Restaurant Group yesterday. The final price tag was about $15 mil more than originally reported back in February. Patina CEO Nick Valenti and chef-founder Joachim Splichal (known for restaurants like Patina... Read More | | | | | | The Box is back in action and even hosted a corporate event last night for Virgin America airline, clearly meant to bring the venue one step closer to becoming a "cultural institution." [Down by the Hipster] The $98 million sale of New York–based Smith & Wollensky Restaurant Group, ... Read More | | | | | | MIDTOWN EAST—Smith & Wollensky Group, owner of Quality Meats, Cité and an eponymous steakhouse, has been purchased by Patina Restaurant Group (The Sea Grill, Brasserie), reports Crains, to the tune of $79.6 million. Patina hopes to expand the Smith & Wollensky brand outside of New York.... Read More | | | | | | Spring it on… If you’re going to lose an hour this weekend, lose it with style at the brand new Prime Nightclub. Located down the block from their sister club Suzie Wong, expect low sofas, red lighting, and lots of celebrity DJs in the former Myst/Retox space. Prime Nightclub, 511 West 28th St... Read More | | | | | | Steal this signal… THE PARTY Fashion Week was grand. Say goodbye to the collections with models Eve Salvail and Caron Bernstein at Plumm’s End of Fashion Week shindig tonight (9/13). The legendary Slick Rick performs. Open bar from 10 p.m. - 11 p.m. The Plumm, 246 West 14th Street (near Eighth... Read More | | | | | | In the three decades since Alan Stillman opened the first Smith & Wollensky steak house in Midtown Manhattan, his empire has grown to 13 restaurants, and in 2001, it went public as the Smith & Wollensky Restaurant Group. Thisweek, shareholdersapproved a deal to sell the restaurant group to P... Read More | | | | | | The vault at a Smith & Wollensky location.Photo: Corbis Smith and Wollensky, which has made a bundle selling unexceptional meat at high prices in a series of nearly identical steakhouses, has been on the upswing even by its ca-ching standards: This past December, the organization raked in over $... Read More | | | |
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