IN THE NEWS: AM New York (amny.com) reports the Feb. 24 closing of Upper West Side mainstay (and John Lennon’s favorite neighborhood hang-out) Cafe La Fortuna (69 W. 71st St.), and the Lost City blog attends the last day … The Brooklyn Daily Eagle’s Don Evans reports the closing of 72-year-old Armando Ristorante (143 Montague […]

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IN THE NEWS: Eater.com details the opening of Bar Blanc (142 West 10th Street, West Village; 212-255-2330) and the closings of Agata & Valentina Ristorante (1505 1st Ave, agatavalentina.com), Frank’s steak house (410 W 16th St), and Sapore (55 Greenwich Ave.). … The New York Times’s Frank Bruni gives one star to Barbuto (775 Washington […]

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