The Stadium Club isn't the first strip joint — oh, I can feel the owner cringing now about the use of that cheap term — to inject steakhouse sophistication into a business of peddling another kind of flesh. I used to live in Houston, otherwise known as the Strip Joint Capital of the Free World, [...]
With its Spinal Tap-like logo, Sushi Rock will share one other trait with the 1984 rockumentary: faux rawk-star glamor. The new concept from the folks behind Public Bar will mix Japanese cuisine with American rock 'n' roll in an environment that Tony Hudgins, a managing partner for Public Group, says will make diners feel like [...]
Yaku to swim with the (raw) fishes We interrupt Y&H's Home Cooking Day to pass along this news: Yaku, the Latin Concept restaurant dedicated to chifa cuisine and other Peruvian specialties, will close in January and reopen as a rock 'n' roll/sushi establishment. Mauricio Fraga-Rosenfeld, founder of the Latin Concepts group of fashionable restaurant/lounges, tells [...]
