DELICATESSEN – At Prince and Lafayette

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DELICATESSEN 

At Prince and Lafayette

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By Allegra Colletti

54 Prince St., at Lafayette St., New York

Tel:  212-226-0211

www.delicatessennyc.com 

Don’t let the name fool you.  Situated at the crossroads of Nolita and Soho, this ultramodern space is anything but a deli. Open since July, the menu is billed as ‘international comfort food’.  But that too is given a modern twist – think cheeseburger spring rolls, and wonton-wrapped halibut tacos with kimchee sour cream.  Everything about this place is carefully designed, including the downstairs bathrooms, which are a little tricky to navigate but worth a trip to the washroom.

With a menu cover shot by fashion photographer Terry Richardson (who also happens to live in the neighborhood) and staff uniforms designed by Charlotte Ronson (her boutique is just around the corner), this is obviously a place to see and be seen. This fall they will be serving a dozen varieties of mac and cheese for takeout and delivery from the new Macbar next door.

So put on your best designer duds and we’ll see you there. 

Images courtesy of David Joseph.

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3. London, England
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5. San Francisco Bay Area
6. Arno River Valley, Italy
7. Belgium
8. Burlington, Vermont
9. Valrhona, France
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Dubai World to expand hotel network despite global financial crisis

Xinhua General News Service, November 19, 2008 Wednesday 2:10 AM EST

Dubai World, a holding company that manages and supervises the portfolio of businesses and projects for the Dubai Government, is planning to expand its hotel network despite the current global financial crisis, local newspaper Gulf News reported on Wednesday.

Instead of tightening its purse strings, Dubai World seeks to take advantage of the credit crunch that swept the world, it said.

“There are opportunities and you sometimes have to assess opportunities in a crisis…. We have perhaps missed opportunities in past crises,” Dubai World’s Chairman Sultan Ahmad Bin Sulayem was quoted as saying.

Sulayem took the newly opened Fontainebleau Miami Beach resort as an example, the latest investment of the company in the United States. A subsidiary of Dubai World bought 50 percent of the hotel ’s stake at a price of 375 million U.S. dollars in April.

The credit crunch that made many companies hungry for cash had undoubtedly helped secure the investment in the Fontainebleau Miami Beach resort, he said.

“Had we done this investment two or three years ago, it would have been four times the cost,” he said.

Launched in July 2006, Dubai World manages a number of leading companies including the world’s leading port operator DP World, Dubai Multi Commodities Center and Nakheel, the developer of the Palm Islands.

Copyright 2008 Xinhua News Agency
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