Similarly, Andrew Tarlow and Mark Firth, former bartenders at Odeon and Balthazar, opened Diner last year, just blocks from where they live in Williamsburg.
On Dec. 31, 1998, Mr. Firth opened Diner, on Broadway in Williamsburg, with a fellow Balthazar alumnus, Andrew Tarlow, igniting a second wave of restaurants in a neighborhood that had few options: Planet Thai, Teddy's, Miss Williamsburg Diner, Oznot's Dish.
Bryan Voltaggio's Range is one step closer to opening as diners can make reservations for a "pop-in" preview at the Friendship Heights restaurant as of 5 a.m.
A pizza master is opening a diner, and a high-end chef is doing a sports bar.
"I never went to school for film or food," Mr. Johnston said, although his wife, Amy McNutt, went to the University of Southern California and worked in the film industry for a few years before returning to Texas and opening the diner.
It will open to diners on 2 April.
In spring and summer, the outdoor terrace opens, offering diners a bird's-eye view of the action on Place Jacques-Cartier.
No ending seemed desirable or natural, so we sat down for breakfast at a miraculously open diner.
Four Taliban fighters crept past security early on Thursday evening and hid inside the building for three hours before opening fire on diners inside the hotel's restaurant, according to Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi.
After the lake vanished, she closed the shop and opened the diner, to serve miners.
