PX This.

  PX Me. (How I Became a Published Author, Got Micro-Famous, and Married a Millionaire) When Abbe Diaz published her journal, PX This – Diary of the "Maître d’ to the Stars" [née Diary of the Potted Plant] in 2004, she’d had no idea what she was in for. Sure, she expected the process would […]

  Hey, did you hear about Mark Birnbaum getting sued for sexual harrassament? [No? Oh, you must live in a fucking cave.] Discuss.   Cuz you knooow you want to. COMMENTS ARE OPEN.               How’s this, I’ll start— maybe I’ll just fill in some of the ones I’ve heard […]

  Ladies and Gentlemen, May We Have Your Attention Christian Alexander‘s gatherings may have been heating up The Mulberry Project for the past couple weeks or so, but things are about to get even hotter. And we maybe don’t exactly mean that in a good way. Now that its opening has been officially announced, chances […]

The (NYC Food & Beverage Industry) Life & Times of Gwen Butler

  • Which vainglorious, injudicious, maladroit colleague has already been replaced but just doesn’t know it yet? Sigh. Lie down with dogs…   • Which restaurateur is in a quandary over a popular "concept" that was recently sold to somebody else? Damn those pesky majority shareholders, always getting in the way of personal profit.   […]

Did Chef Jody Williams try to undermine her former boss by planting a grasshopper in a sandwich wrap?

PX This discusses the behind-the-scene circumstances of chef Jody Williams’s brief tenure at Keith McNally’s Morandi

  • Which (somewhat deluded) renowned restaurant group that recently found itself the target of a class-action wage-dispute lawsuit, is soon to come under fire again? This time the charge is sexual harassment, the details of which are forthcoming shortly. Unfortunately, it could be right around the time the alleged defendant is vacationing with his […]

Abbe Diaz’s (abbreviated) account of being asked to leave the lobby of The Mercer Hotel in NYC, by Jean Georges Enterprises’ Director of Operations, Lois Freedman

A longtime member of the NYC Food & Beverage Fine Dining industry bites back against Steve Cuozzo and Keith McNally. He’s mad as hell, and he’s not gonna take it anymore.