It was a year no food-lover will forget — dramatic, zany and appalling by turns. Business was robust. Confident restaurateurs launched new places almost daily.
If any one trend stood out, it was the growing dominance of the “haves” — the large restaurant companies that grew and expanded no matter what the economic trends. Quality Branded launched Mexican jumbo Limusina on Ninth Avenue, Avra Group brought another Greek seafood giant to the Moynihan building, and Mercer Street Hospitality Group opened Seahorse in Union Square. Jean-Georges Vongerichten and Lois Freedman brought ABC Kitchen to Brooklyn for the first time.
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