ITS steakhouses bustle, its shopping malls teem.
Buenos Aires is renowned for its steakhouses (asados criollos, but nearly every culinary tradition is represented in one or more of the city's restaurants.
Chicago is famous for its steakhouses, which run the gamut from the flashy new NINE (312-277-0207, $120) thetraditionalonal GENE & GEORGETTI (312-527-3718, $90), where legend has it that the huge steaks and lamb chops were a hit with Frank Sinatra.
If HFC is neck and neck with its steakhouse competition, it soars ahead in the dessert department, which, with Mr. Leach back there, is to be expected.
Its steakhouse menu tilts sharply toward Italy with beef carpaccio, Parmesan-crusted New York strip, filet mignon with a Gorgonzola-Barolo sauce, and many pastas.
Opening in the Hamptons BLT STEAK AT THE CAPRI Where Nobu set up shop last summer will now be in the hands of ESquared Hospitality, which will open a branch of its steakhouse.
The Morton's Restaurant Group NYSE MRGRG) of New Hyde Park is facing delisting from the New York Stock Exchange and is evaluating a potential sale of its assets, including Morton's of Chicago, its steakhouse chain, the company said on Monday.
Smith & Wollensky Restaurant Group operates its namesake steakhouses as well as Maloney & Porcelli, Post House, Park Avenue Cafe and Quality Meats.
Finding experienced workers "is a challenge," said Christopher Artinian, chief executive of Morton's Restaurant Group, which recently opened the first location of its upmarket steakhouses in Shanghai and expects to open several more in Asia in the next few years.
The new iteration is charming, with a pulsing bass line of ambition beneath its simple steakhouse melody.
Nobody needs to tell the people in this speck of a town, known for its homey steakhouse, that there are more political commercials on television this year than ever before.
