This upscale trattoria from Francine Stephens and Andrew Feinberg occupies the Prospect Heights space that formerly housed their pizza-centric eatery Franny's (which has moved a few blocks up Flatbush). With a polished new look, the narrow quarters make a fitting backdrop for chef Danny Amend's rustic-yet-sophisticated pastas, wood-grilled meats and fish and other seasonally driven Italian...
Le Cirque Timeline; Toloache's Mexican Jewish Passover:
MIDTOWN — Today is the 40th anniversary of Le Cirque. To mark the occasion, the team has put together a timeline of the restaurant's lifespan. It notes, among other things, the years when Sirio Maccioni invented pasta primavera, when Geoffrey Zakarian became a line cook, and when Andrew Carmellini became a sous chef. A more thorough, interactive timeline is in the works. [Facebook]
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Feinberg, Stephens, and Adler on 10 Years of Franny's:
[Andrew Feinberg, Francine Stephens, and Johnathan Adler by Krieger]
On April 13, 2004, Francine Stephens and Andrew Feinberg opened a tiny wood-fired pizza restaurant, Franny's, in Prospect Heights. At the time, the couple was newly married, and they had just returned to New York after a failed attempt to open a restaurant in Massachusetts. Andrew, who had cooked under Peter Hoffman at Savoy,...
In the space that was once the pioneering Brooklyn restaurant Franny’s, Marco’s holds on to some of the small-scale spirit but adds a newfound maturity and comfort. The lights are gentler, the room handsomer, the tables less cramped. At the bar of radiantly white marble you can raise a bittersweet Italian aperitif, on the rocks or folded into a cocktail, then move to the table you reserved by...