They include Bibiana Osteria-Enoteca, where Justice Antonin Scalia is known to sip martinis while lunching on regional Italian cuisine, and the Oval Room and 701 Restaurant, power-dining canteens where Tony Conte, a chef whom Mr. Bajaj recruited from Jean-Georges in New York, churns out subtly edgy new American cuisine.
Today you can wear new clothes made from old clothes and old plastic bottles, while eating food enhanced by old food – and stored in plastic containers made from agricultural waste – in a restaurant powered by food-waste energy and decorated by agricultural-waste wood panels with nappy-based roof tiles.
The oddest, and possibly most popular new taqueria in town, this date-night restaurant, powered by haute-cuisine master Walter Manzke's teenage memories of visits to Baja and the taco wisdom of Guillermo Campos Moreno, who runs the well-regarded Tacos Kokopelli in Tijuana, may serve the closest thing to modern Baja cooking in town.
Over breakfast at Michael's restaurant, a power scene in Midtown, Mr. Davis pitched Dewey's chairman, Morton A. Pierce, on combining to create one of New York's largest firms with the heft to compete internationally.
Few steakhouses know how to host an IPO celebration better than Morton's Restaurant, where power ties and barrel-chested swagger flow as liberally as red wine.
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Initially involved with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, he later became a freelancer, responsible for bomb attacks on trains, banks, restaurants and power stations in Europe, some of them fatal.
"One of the things attractive about New London is there was an infrastructure already in place, the dry cleaners and coffee shops and restaurants," Ms. Power said.
For restaurants, losing power just hours after the traditional big Thursday delivery that usually sees them through the weekend was particularly devastating.
In Mineola, where he started at the 1862 bank building that now houses The Davenport Press and Restaurant, Mr. Powers stopped shooting while a Long Island Rail Road train roared past.
On the earnings docket, look out for CKE Restaurants, Solarfun Power and DSW, all of which are reporting.
