Like its Mediterraneo in Greenwich, which opened in the mid-1990s, the Z Hospitality Group's Norwalk Mediterraneo, its sixth restaurant, has a short menu, by the executive chef, Albert DeAngelis.
The Harvest Cafe is the second restaurant Mr. King has developed.
It will be the ninth restaurant she has opened, and this time she is the executive chef, since "the menu is developed, written and tested by me," she said.
Louro is Mr. Santos's house, the first restaurant where he has had an ownership stake after unsatisfying gigs at Hotel Griffou and, more briefly, Five and Diamond.
It never even entered my mind, but we were the first restaurant to have an openly gay manager running a big place in 1992.
We left the first restaurant and had just enough time to run across the road to see where the other five girls were being kept before the police noticed we were gone.
This is the first year the restaurant has held this title, though it has been on the list for eight years and hold three Michelin stars.
Commander's Palace, the 130-year-old grand dame of New Orleans restaurants, will close on game night, the first time the restaurant has closed for a one-time event in memory, possibly ever.
"This is the first time the restaurant has hired an important chef, who has a real culinary identity," said Mr. Niccolini, who took over the Four Seasons with Mr. von Bidder in 1995.
It's the first time the restaurant has been closed for any period of time since it opened in the Beverly Hilton Hotel, at 9876 Wilshire Blvd., in 1955!
