IN THE NEWS: From the Sun’s Erin Lindholm, “Burger lovers on the Upper West Side have been buzzing with anticipation all summer for the opening of the second outpost of Shake Shack, restaurateur Danny Meyer’s perennially popular burger stand in Madison Square Park, open since 2004. Earlier this year, rumors had the opening date of […]

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IN THE NEWS:  New York magazine’s Grub Street blog reports the closing of Lotus, the scheduled June 21 closing of Café Gray, and the scheduled June 29 closing of L’Impero, which will reopen in mid-July as Convivio. newyorkmagazine.com … The New York Times’s Frank Bruni gives a poor rating to Ago (In the Greenwhich Hotel, […]

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