The real prohibition didn't last, so it isn't that surprising that the prohibition party at the pop-up "experimental restaurant" What Happens When isn't lasting either. In the wake of the SLA's decision to strip the well-regarded restaurant's liquor license, chef and owner John Fraser has decided to simply shut the joint down after Saturday's service.
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What Happens When A Restaurant Loses Booze? It Closes
Eat Cetera: Aquavit Herring Festival, Peak Organic Beer Dinner, What Happens When's Prohibition-Era Party
Click through on the photos for the scoop on eating and drinking events around town, which include Aquavit's Herring Festival, The Vanderbilt's Peak Organic Beer Dinner, and What Happens When's new Prohibition-era menu.
What Happens When... A Pop-Up Restaurant Loses Its Booze?
Ah, the pitfalls of opening a temporary restaurant. What if your liquor license falls through? That's the situation that chef John Fraser's pop-up restaurant What Happens When is currently facing. The pop-up, which took over the old Le Jardin space downtown in January, is only supposed to run for nine months before it goes away but a recent blow from the State Liquor Authority could hurry along the process. Eater reports that Fraser and co.'s request to transfer the La Jardin liquor license has been rejected by the SLA. What this means in the long term is unclear, but while the Cleveland Place restaurant tries to reason with the Liquor Authority it remains open, just with none of its tasty cocktails and no BYO either.
Midweek Special: NYC Restaurant Review Roundup
Well didn't Sam Sifton have a good time on assignment this week! Writing up La Petite Maison the Times critic can barely contain his glee in his one-star review at the absurdity of the restaurant from Nice. Here the men have "tanned faces," the women have "colorists," the chef (Alain Allegretti) is "handsome" and the "extremely beautiful" staff speaks with French accents (“Get the bottle, monsieur! You must: It is so delicious! Oui, then? Oui? D’accord!”). The food is competent, if nothing to write home about (but "about the desserts, the less said the better."). Maison has its charms, sure, but "the whole place can be overwhelming and, indeed, absurd, a kind of pantomime vacation on the Riviera, here in Midtown."
New Restaurant And Bar Radar
Click on the photos for details on NYC's recent restaurants and bar openings, which include Mable's Smokehouse in Williamsburg, upscale Indian at Tulsi in midtown, a pop-up restaurant called What Happens When in Nolita, and the eclectic Fatta Cuckoo on the Lower East Side.
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