- On Tuesday, Jeff Zalaznick, founder of Alwayshungryny.com, and restaurateur Joe Bastianich launched Dine Private, a new Web site that allows groups to book a restaurant's private dining room online. [Eater]
- Bidding for the seasonal eatery inside Union Square Park's renovated pavilion is expected to begin before the end of the year. [NYP]
- After 30 years in business, David and Karen Waltuck's TriBeCa restaurant Chanterelle has closed. [NYT]
- Lincoln Center's new visitors venue will open on November 24 as the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center, and Per Se's chef de cuisine will head up the kitchen at the unnamed Patina Group restaurant. [BizBash]
- Governor David Paterson enlisted help from the New York Racing Authority and the lottery authority to select the most viable proposals to develop the Aquaduct Racetrack. [Crain's]
- Following a renovation to its Living Hall room, the Frick Collection decided to refurbish the neighboring East Gallery and make some changes to its dining room. [NYT]
- Neighbors of the Jane Hotel are still incensed by the crowds, noise, and litter left by patrons of the hotel's bar and have hired a PR rep for their coalition. [NYP]
- On Wednesday, Ink 48, the 222-room hotel from Kimpton Hotels and Restaurants, opened in Hell's Kitchen. [HotelChatter]
- The owner of the property that houses Pink Elephant is suing the nightclub's owners over the rumor that they are looking to move the joint to a new site on East 21st Street. [NYDN]
- Fabio Trabocchi, the chef whose work at Fiamma received three stars from The New York Times before it shuttered earlier this year, will head up the kitchen at the Four Seasons restaurant. [NYT]
- Travertine, Top Chef contestant Manuel Trevino's Mediterranean restaurant in NoLIta, opened on Tuesday night. [NYMag]
- The Standard New York's beer garden opened with Ping-Pong and picnic-table seating. [Zagat]
- The Dessert Truck is creating a brick-and-mortar presence on the Lower East Side. [NYMag]
- In Pete Wells's opinion, the Standard Grill establishes hotelier André Balazs as a restaurateur and, despite some "wobbles" in service and menu items with an "identity disorder," the new spot is definitely a worthwhile place to check out. [NYT]
- Compared with its contemporaries, Sho Shaun Hergatt "feels stuffy and slightly passé" to Adam Platt, who believes that the chef's decadent and sometimes excessive menu is "not such a bad thing." [NYMag]
- Steve Cuozzo is impressed by the new incarnation of Aureole, praising the "rarely fussy" dishes from chef Christopher Lee and the layout, where "there's not a bad seat in the house." [NYP]
- Ryan Sutton is less enthusiastic about Charlie Palmer's latest, complaining about the "cramped" tables, "unbearable levels" of sound, and chef Lee, who "takes excellent ingredients and manipulates the flavor out of them." [Bloomberg]
