Wilo Benet, a Culinary Institute of America graduate who trained at several of New York's leading restaurants, returned to his native Puerto Rico to open Pikayo, which is dressy, very expensive and deliciously memorable.
It's a great profit engine between 1996 and 2000 U.S. restaurants returned an eyelid-snapping 69% on invested capital, reports Credit Suisse First Boston but it's a growth company only if the chain can add stores.
DESTINO This Italian restaurant returns after a six-month project to repair flood damage.
After a year, he sold the restaurant, returned to New Jersey and, in 2007, opened the New Brunswick restaurant.
Raymond Blanc, who would later become a backer of his protege's restaurant, returns the compliment.
The restaurant returned a scrubbed-clean stroller to Mr. Klein, delighting Noah, who had picked it out in the first place.
A short time later, one man who had left the restaurant returned bleeding from the mouth and neck, the police said.
For a long time, a friend of mine has based her summer holiday almost entirely around a single restaurant, returning to the same place year after year to make full and liberal use of its delicious menu.
B1 5 Hurt in Queens Shooting A group of men who were turned away from a private party at a Queens restaurant returned and began shooting at people outside, injuring four, the police said.
Ms. Kurtz said Tuesday night's training was "not retraining as much as refining skills," and she likened it to the staff of her favorite Italian restaurant returning to Italy every year to immerse themselves in authentic food.
Last June, Bakht Bilind Khan, who was living in the Bronx and working at a fast-food restaurant, returned to his village in the volatile Swat Valley of northern Pakistan to visit his wife and seven children for the first time in three years.
