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Todd English's Plans For The Plaza

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Celebrity chef Todd English has announced his latest restaurant, The Plaza Food Hall by Todd English which will open in Spring 2010 in New York's Plaza Hotel, The 5,400 square-foot Food Hall will have eight stations and kitchens where visitors may choose their selections and watch as they are being freshly prepared. These include a wine bar that serves tapas, a cheese and charcuterie station that also offers caviar, a sushi bar, a burger bar and rotisserie, an Asian noodle and dumpling bar, an espresso and tea bar with desserts, a pizza station and a fish and seafood grill. The Plaza Food Hall by Todd English will also sell gourmet foods like olives and olive oils, vinegars, spices, gourmet coffee, teas and cocoas, artisan jams and sauces as well as cookware, linens and home goods.

English, who started as a Boston-based chef, now has a global empire that includes a chain of restaurants with Eva Longoria, several cookbooks, a line of cookware and his own olive oil.

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Eva Longoria Parker's Expanding Restaurant Empire

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Filed under: Dining, Celebrity Design

The restaurant world may not be having its best season but one celebrity restaurateur is ready to expand. People Magazine reports that Eva Longoria Parker is taking her Beso restaurant concept to Las Veas. Beso Las Vegas will open on New Year's Eve 2010 with an event hosted by Longoria Parker. The exact venue is still under construction but the menu will resemble Beso Hollywood with items like Eva's tortilla soup and chili rubbed skirt steak on the menu.

Longoria Parker and her business partner celebrity chef Todd English (who already has a version of his signature restaurant Olives in Las Vegas) plan to make the Las Vegas version a little different with a variety of specials and drinks and an upstairs lounge called Eve. Las Vegas is a smart move for a burgeoning restaurant chain, Although tourism is down in Las Vegas, the city still brings in hungry tourists looking for a special experience. Tao Las Vegas has topped the list of highest grossing independent restaurants for several years.

Longoria Parker is also planning a series of smaller airport versions called Besitos (little kisses in Spanish). The first one will be in Los Angeles. English can guide her there too, his Bonfire restaurant has outposts in both Boston's Logan Airport and New York City's JFK Airport.

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Thompson Hotels to Have 10 Properties by 2009

by Jared Paul Stern (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Decor, Luxury Travel & Hotels

Jason Pomeranc, the eagle-eyed entrepreneur behind the boutique Thompson Hotels brand, clearly isn't concerned about the economic downturn. Pomeranc recently opened two new outposts, one in New York and one in D.C., and he has another New York space opening this summer to add to the five chic spots already in his portfolio. Recently completed was the revamp of Gild Hall, the Financial District hotel he acquired in December, with a Todd English eatery to follow in the fall; and the Donovan House in D.C. Most enticing of all is the Thompson LES (for Lower East Side) with its rooftop pool featuring an Andy Warhol photomural on the bottom, slated to open this summer. Next year Pomeranc has properties planned for Tribeca and Toronto, bringing his total portfolio up to ten. In addition to the original 60 Thompson opened in 2001, he has the happening Hollywood Roosevelt (pictured above) and the top-drawer Thompson Beverly Hills, both in Los Angeles. See the gallery for pix of the new Gild Hall and more.

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