The restaurant intends to change the menu every three months, each menu containing historical dishes ranging from the 14th to 19th centuries.
The restaurant, intended as a sophisticated alternative to casual Haitian joints, has the look of upscale dining but the soul of a family hangout.
Elevon will also have shops and restaurants intended to serve occupants, Tarnofsky said.
Tom and Anthony Martignetti, brothers and owners of a club on Houston Street, have said that they intended, with this restaurant, to create an Odeon for Nolita's young and well-heeled.
The restaurant is intended to be lean and nimble enough to adapt.
Its most famous remnant, the 605-foot-high Space Needle, complete with revolving restaurant, was intended to symbolize the fair's futuristic theme, but became as quaint as a "Jetsons" cartoon.
Since the restaurant is intended, as the menu puts it, to convey "the energy, excitement, entertainment and fun of 1959 Havana," drinks are at the foreground, including a spectrum of fruit-supplemented mojitos, various sweet sangrias and a selection of Latin American beers.
Crowned with five revolving restaurants and intended to open for the centenary of Kim Il-sung's birth in 2012, it remains unfinished and off-limits.
The James bars and restaurants are intended to be a destination for locals as well as visitors, he said.
& first walked into this restaurant.
