The hourlong piece, which will include a narrative read by the actor Joel Grey, explores how earlier generations of New Yorkers transformed restaurants, parks and streets from Harlem to Brooklyn into places for themselves, despite deep-seated prejudice and legal prosecution.
The business transforms restaurant dishwashing areas.
While Noma alumni have gone on to open many of the city's top restaurants, transforming the restaurant landscape, few locals can actually afford to eat in them.
They had begun planning to transform the restaurant eight months earlier, hoping to rise still higher on the San Pellegrino list.
The high prices transform the restaurant into a de facto private club, said Melissa Biggs Bradley, the founder of indagare.com, a luxury travel Web site that has reviewed Harry Cipriani.
Their fish-out-of-water tableau seemed to transform the restaurant's tasteful vintage interiors into a "Twilight Zone" IHOP, one that served slow-cooked scrambled eggs and home-churned butter.
NH Hotels, the owner of the hotel, is planning to transform the restaurant, started in 2006 by the Catalan chef Santi Santamaria (who died last year), into something "without pretensions".
The food, however, is fresh, served at the proper temperature and mostly well executed — a good start, needing only a spark (and perhaps a bit of maturity) to transform the restaurant from default to delight.
And the staff hopes to transform the restaurant's empty wall space into a showcase for computer memorabilia, much the way the Hard Rock Cafe chain displays rock-and-roll artifacts.
You've also got to love a gal who will transform a restaurant owner into a dog.
