{"id":282134,"date":"2025-10-06T17:09:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T17:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/282134\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T17:09:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T17:09:21","slug":"a-midtown-steakhouse-closes-following-two-alarm-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/282134\/","title":{"rendered":"A Midtown Steakhouse Closes Following Two-Alarm Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

For this Monday morning, I\u2019m reporting on a steakhouse that\u2019s been shuttered by a fire, a 10,000 square-foot Greek restaurant on the way, a fourth location of a popular sandwich shop, and more. Plus, if you sign up for the Eater New York Substack<\/a> \u2014where we\u2019re reporting entirely different stuff than what\u2019s on the home page \u2014 you can enter the drawing for two tickets, worth over $300, to the opening party for the New York Wine and Food Festival, on Wednesday, October 15. <\/a> All you have to do is tell us your favorite new restaurant of the year. And signup<\/a> is free.<\/p>\n

A two-alarm fire broke out on Friday, October 4, at Monterey <\/a>steakhouse, the Art Deco spot at 37 East 50th Street and Madison Avenue. Flames broke out shortly after 1 p.m.on the first floor and spread to the second-floor walls. Over 100 firefighters fought the blaze, who had it under control by just after 5 p.m., with no injuries reported, according to the FDNY.<\/a> The restaurant is run by chef James Tracey \u2014 formerly of Gramercy Tavern and Craft \u2014 and is known for big-ticket plates like a dry-aged tomahawk for two, lobster thermidor, and a throwback wedge salad. Monterey is part of the larger group led by Simon Oren and Dudi Sasson. It opened in 2022.<\/p>\n

Chipotle founder opens fourth location uptown<\/p>\n

A new outpost of Counter Service <\/a>\u2014 a sandwich shop founded by Chipotle\u2019s Steve Ells \u2014 is opening on the Upper East Side at 1302 First Avenue, at East 70th Street, on October 14<\/a>. <\/a>The shop <\/a>serves breakfast and lunch sandwiches (priced around $16\u2013$19), including orders like the Baron (roast beef, white cheddar, watercress, horseradish mayo) and the Smokeshow (house-roasted chicken, barbecue sauce, triple jalape\u00f1os), plus the vegetarian Gigante. <\/a>This will be Counter Service\u2019s fourth NYC location (joining spots on West 14th Street, Park Avenue South, and East Fourth Street).<\/p>\n

A giant Greek restaurant is headed for Soho<\/p>\n

A lease was signed for a 10,000-square-foot ground-floor space at 23 Grand Street<\/a>, near the foot of Sixth Avenue, inside the ModernHaus SoHo<\/a> hotel. The space will house a seafood restaurant called Selene by Kyma<\/a>, a collaboration between James Ragonese, formerly with LDV Hospitality<\/a>, and Reno Christou of the Kyma <\/a>restaurant group, which runs locations in Flatiron, Hudson Yards, and Roslyn.<\/p>\n

Five NYC restaurants and bars <\/a>\u2014 including Taku Sando, Bessou, Raku Midtown, Rice & Miso, and Kato Sake Works \u2014 are rolling out limited-time dishes and drinks from October 1\u201315, to showcase how Japanese dashi, sponsored by Kayanoya USA, can transform everything from sandwiches and curries to cocktails.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For this Monday morning, I\u2019m reporting on a steakhouse that\u2019s been shuttered by a fire, a 10,000 square-foot…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":282135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,4991,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-282134","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-intel","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-newyork","13":"tag-newyorkcity","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115328330388466869","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}