Results tagged “malaysian”

There is a geeky-looking rich guy from Malaysia who has developed quite the reputation for running up huge tabs at douchey NYC clubs, as well as flying Megan Fox to party with him "and his entourage" in Las Vegas, and sending 23 bottles of Cristal to Lindsay Lohan at 1OAK. Heads up gold diggers: his name is Taek Jho Low, and he's residing at the Park Imperial, where his profligacy is so extreme residents wish they had a rapper in the building instead. One neighbor tells the Post, "It used to be that when you saw the Cadillac Escalades outside, you knew Sean [Combs] was in town. Now it's this guy."

Today the Times’s Frank Bruni relates his multiple visits to West Village Asian barbecue restaurant Bar Q, and by the sounds of it you’d never guess print media is in any kind of financial trouble – an initial trip with one group of ungrateful friends prompted so much "grumbling" he had to "unruffle their feathers" by being “especially profligate with the wine” on his paper’s expense account. The hangers-on who shared his second visit tasted a better side of Bar Q; after passing over chef Anita Lo’s “cloying” baby back ribs for her “gorgeous” steamed lobster, he decides that Lo’s “triumphs, more than her wobbles, stayed with me.” Two stars.

Tribeca’s 15-year-old Franklin Station Café will close next month, and the Downtown Express has a nice, long goodbye (928 words!) to the neighborhood mainstay. The French and Malaysian bistro, located at the corner of West Broadway and Franklin across from the 1 train stop, was one of the few moderately-priced places left in the increasingly cost-prohibitive neighborhood, and had long been a favored hang-out for locals.