2/10/2010
GREENWICH – Plans for a Blue Smoke – an upscale barbecue joint out of New York – went, well, up in smoke.
Part of the Danny Meyer restaurant empire, Blue Smoke has locations on E. 27th and at at the Mets’ Citi Field, where they make a totally decent brisket.
But hopes of a Blue Smoke at the new hotel on the former site of the Riverside Howard Johnson have been dashed according to the Greenwich Time’s Neil Vigdor:
A spokeswoman for the upscale chophouse, which is run by the owners of New York City’s Union Square Cafe and has locations on Murray Hill and at Citi Field of theMets, confirmed Tuesday that the restaurateur has pulled out of the hotel project at the former Howard Johnson site.
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–CP
