- If new investors and interested restaurateurs can reach an agreement with the local labor union, Café des Artistes may reopen. [Crain's]
- Yet another lawsuit has been brought against the development of the Atlantic Yards: On Monday, groups organized by Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn sought to challenge the M.T.A.'s approval of the project. [NYO]
- The City Planning Commission has approved the Related Companies' proposal to revitalize the Kingsbridge Armory, a project that will add shops and a movie theater to the landmark site in the Bronx. [NYT]
- In addition to approving the Kingsbridge Armory project and Jean Nouvel's tower for MoMA, the city also gave the green light to the Related Companies' redevelopment of the Hudson Yards. [Architect's Paper]
- Next spring, a Jon Bon Jovi concert will kick off the opening of the new $1.6 billion stadium for the Giants and the Jets. [AP]
- On Wednesday, the city sued Tavern on the Green's operators, claiming that the LeRoy family fraudulently obtained the rights to the Central Park eatery's name, which is currently valued at about $19 million. [Crain's]
- When Lincoln Center's David H. Koch Theater opens on November 5, the flexible new venue will be able to accommodate the different needs of the New York City Opera and the New York City Ballet. [NYT]
- Geoffrey Zakarian's long awaited new restaurant, to be located inside Vikram Chatwal's soon-to-open Midtown hotel the Lamb's Club, will debut in the spring. [Eater]
- Chef Masaharu Morimoto has teamed up with Delaware North Companies to develop a yakitori restaurant concept for airports across the country. [NRN]
- Chef and restaurateur Michael Huynh is taking advantage of lower rents by following an ambitious plan to open 10 more eateries. [NYT]
- Tim and Nina Zagat released the 2010 guide to the nation's top restaurants on Wednesday; among the winners in New York, Fette Sau ranks as the most popular barbecue eatery, Philippe serves the best Chinese food, and the favorite place for burgers is Le Parker Meridien's Burger Joint. [Reuters]
- The staff of media hangout Michael's have taken to posting celebrity sightings on Twitter. [NYP]
- Sam Sifton awards Marea three stars, praising the Central Park-adjacent spot as the most "ambitious" restaurant from chef Michael White and business partner Chris Cannon and it is "in many ways a casual one, unfussy, as welcoming as a luxe clubhouse." [NYT]
- In Adam Platt's opinion, neither Gabriel Stulman's West Village boîte Joseph Leonard nor Sfoglia's spin-off Civetta are particularly inspired, but are good enough to earn a star each. [NYMag]
- Jay Cheshes returns to Monkey Bar, where, compared with the "bland ’50s home cooking" of his original visit, the restaurant is now serving "some tasty new dishes" from consulting chef Larry Forgione that carry the "bold and opulent flavors that defined him when he was a big player in the ’80s and ’90s." [TONY]
- Although SD26 "is too new to review," Steve Cuozzo highlights the restaurant's menu, which "offers flexibility in ordering of a useful sort that [he's] never seen in a serious New York restaurant." [NYP]
- John Mariani, Esquire's food columnist, who rates the country's top new restaurants every year, has good things to say about Oceana, claiming the "lighting is perfect," the spot's bustle "vibrant without being noisy," and that the eatery "retains what made it great in the first place while seeming tantalizingly new." [Virtual Gourmet]
- Gael Greene visits the Meatpacking district's Abe & Arthur's, finding it "a hive of hipsters and heel-totterers," but suggests they "turn up the lights and tone down the music" to attract more "grownups that care about eating." [Insatiable Critic]
