New York Magazine
Date: 2011-09-02
Author: Alan Sytsma

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McDonald, with green tea at MercBar. Like many New Yorkers, John McDonald owner of Lure Fishbar, B Winepub, Chinatown Brasserie, and MercBar has been having a strange week. "Because of the hurricane, I was kind of limited in not being able to go where I'd normally go, not being able to walk into my own venues," he says. "It was a weird, almost Christmas Daylike eeriness." Of course, even when his restaurants are closed, he's still got his other businesses City Magazine, Tasting Table, and Eboost among them to keep him busy. Not to mention Chinatown Brasserie's cameo on last week's episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm: "It was so funny. Classic, the guy wanting to take the food home with him." To read about how McDonald braved the hurricane ...(read more)
... McDonald, with green tea at MercBar. Like many New Yorkers, John McDonald ...
... owner of Lure Fishbar, B Winepub, Chinatown Brasserie, and MercBar has been having a strange week. "Because of the hurricane, I was kind of limited in not being able to go where I'd normally go, not being able to walk into my own venues," he says. " ...
... my restaurant partner, to check out a possible space for a new restaurant, then stopped into La Colombe for a cappuccino. I find it hard to walk past that place without stopping. Around 2 p.m., a friend of mine called to say he was passing by Faiccos ...
... at Wolfgang's. Steak for three, slab bacon, tomato and onion salad. No wine, and no dessert. I'm not a dessert guy. Id rather eat like an extra two ounces of lamb, veal, steak. Im too much of a carnivore. Read more posts by Alan SytsmaFiled Under ...


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