The "Voice" mentor starred in "Burlesque" as quintessential small-town girl Ali, who quits her job at a bar, ventures to Los Angeles and decides to pursue a career on the stage.
"It was a combination of a really challenging financial market, a lot of people thinking our idea was too radical, plus we were first-time entrepreneurs – so it is a high bar for venture capitalists to believe in," says Rubin.
After the concierge-led walkabout, she grabbed a drink at the lobby bar before venturing up to the ninth-floor Above the Grid pool bar, where she and two friends sipped tropical cocktails.
Giant steel straps that looked like Band-Aids were affixed to the side of the boats, and the vessels were barred from venturing out in rough water.
Tagine Restaurant and Wine Bar, the newest venture from the longtime restaurant innovators Jonathan Pratt and Craig Purdy (who together own Peter Pratt's Inn and Umami Café), brings a North African inflection to traditional French bistro food in Croton-on-Hudson.
This elicited a round of excited giggles from her companions at the table, whom she proceeded to tell of her last visit to the bar, when a venture capitalist had just given her company a large infusion of cash.
SNOW falling, the temperature plummeting and, wouldn't you know, here on the corner of Norfolk and Rivington at Schiller's Liquor Bar, the latest venture of Keith McNally with the Golden Touch, they were three-deep at the bar and waiting an hour and a half to sit down to eat.
Consider "Cheers," which, though not immune to the pull of sentimentality, was ultimately about a group of people who were trapped, both within the physical confines of a Boston bar (whenever they ventured out, things got very silly) and within the disappointing circumstances of their lives.
The new restaurant is a joint venture between bar, club and restaurant owner, Matt Hermer and his wife Marissa, with Ewan Venters as a non-executive chairman.
