It was like a 16-year-old and Taylor Swift right there, Carbone says. Carbone jerks a thumb toward them and swings his head my way to shoot me a These your people? stare. Jeremiah Moss, the proprietor of an online historical concern called Jeremiahs Vanishing New York, accused places like Carbone of turning the Big Apple into an Epcot Center Jurassic Park of a city. Eater did a one-paragraph post about Mosss rant. Carbone Las Vegas was a no-brainer, so by 2015 there was an edition at the Aria. Since its opening, Sadelle's has become a New York brunch institution, serving more than 700 guests per day every weekend. The creators know this and relish the hell out of it. We already have four projects under construction and we'll be quickly adding more.. Restaurants seldom accomplish this successfully. Instead, after dominating Miami and expanding to Dallas in the last year, Major Food Group 's Mario Carbone, Rich Torrisi and Jeff Zalaznick are working on their first New York City private club . Kevin Kim, Jeff Zalaznick, Mario Carbone, Masa Ito -- the team behind ZZ's Sushi Bar, landing in [+] Miami Design District this month. The idea to do what Carbone is, thats more acutely Marios particular dream as a young chef, says Torrisi, whose name graced their first restaurant, Torrisi Italian Specialties. The dining room garners plenty of attention, from tableside Caesar salads to towering platters of desserts whisked around the room by Captains dressed in custom Zac Posen tuxedos. Known as "Billionaire's Bunker," the. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. The restaurant opened its doors to the public that week, in late January 2021, just as the first winter wave of COVID-19 was reaching its peak. Jeff said something interesting about people in New York, Torrisi says. Are the majority of your restaurants in downtown New York? Our plan as Major Food Group is to not only expand geographically as a restaurant group, but to expand into other verticals, like hotels and real estate, where we thought that not only was there a huge opportunity for our style of hospitality, but also where we thought our restaurants would play a huge role in the value of those properties, Zalaznick said. After a beat, the younger guy walks up. Read the latest edition of the Commercial Observer online! Still, in the days leading up to the races, Jeff Zalaznick, cofounder of Major Food Group, the umbrella company that owns Carbone, was bullish. I think its a sense of familiar nostalgia, Mario Carbone chimes in. New York was enraptured. The pop-up went head-to-head not just with itself but with a hundred other global hot spots for customers during the jam-packed race weekend schedule. In December, Pete Wells at the Times named it the second-best new restaurant hed reviewed that year, bested only by Sushi Nakazawa, a now-faded fancy sushi joint. Follow NYT Food on Twitter and NYT Cooking on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Pinterest. We also happened to be these young guys doing this old thing, which we didnt realize crosses this really, really wide demographic, Carbone says. Jeff Zalaznick and Mario Carbone two of the three owners behind Major Food Group, of Carbone fame - have relocated to Florida and opened four restaurants at The Boca Raton. What was next was the original Carbone. We dont have to be those guys, were these guys now. I was like, I dont shine shoes no more. . After the meeting at the Jane, all three of them got together, this time at the Mulberry Street playground across from the bar Spring LoungeCarbone called it Shark Bar, like any legit SoHo dweller doesand agreed to form a partnership that would turn into Major Food Group. From left: Rich Torrisi, Mario Carbone and Jeff Zalaznick of Major Food Group along with Michael Stern of JDS Development (Getty Images, JDS Development, Google Maps) Dec 1, 2021, 3:30 PM. The establishment opened its doors in March 2013 to much acclaim per. At one point during our series of conversations, I ask Carbone if such extravagance and global influence seemed remotely attainable back when he and cofounder Rich Torrisi decided to open their first Italian joint 13 years ago. Im not gonna lie, I dont really know anything about Dallas, Carbone says, sitting in the not-quite-finished dining room at the end of an oblong parking lot in the Design District of the Texas metropolis, 1,551 miles from Greenwich Village. Since restaurants gradually started to reopen in the fall of 2020, theres been no spot on earth more perennially celeb-packed than Carbone. MFG then set their sights on the ambitious venture of resurrecting Italian-American fine dining. So I walk up to him. Throughout the madness, Carbone remained the tastefully five-oclock-shadowed big shot in chefs whites, an Italian American culinary god to every foodie with a black card. Theyre too talented on their own, too hardworking and dedicated to the craft, Kulp continued. Design-wise, the sprawling dining room transports you to Miami in the 1950s lush mid-century Miami [+] glamour with an Italian-American twist, brought to life by the inimitable Ken Fulk. Miami is such an exciting place right now, and we love it down here. He is the co-founder and co-owner of Major Food Group (MFG). ), Dallas doesnt like to pay high prices for Italian unless they are in New York or Los Angeles or Italy, Nancy Nichols, a longtime local food writer, wrote after the spot closed. The managing partner of restaurant group Major Food Group . So when Stern of JDS Development floated the idea of working on a branded condo, it fit neatly into the direction Major Food Group was going. We have 14 including the two new ones that are just opening, The Grill and The Pool, a steakhouse and a seafood restaurant. From her greed is good heyday to her post-divorce denouement cavorting with a series of freaky Italian lovers, it was Ivana, all along, who gilded the Trump name. My dad loves it. The Major Food Group team scored prime real estate in the exclusive South of Fifth neighborhood on 49 Collins Avenue a stone's throw away from Miami mainstays, Joe's Stone Crab and Prime 112,. Boulud, who was very much aware of Carmellinis activities over at the caf, said he remembered the young chefs fondly. We knew we could tell the Carbone story the way we wanted to tell it in that space, Zalaznick said. The group had also branched out to new markets, with properties in Las Vegas, Hong Kong and Paris. The Milstein family's fortune comes in large part from banking and real estate ventures in New York City. glamour with an Italian-American twist, brought to life by the inimitable Ken Fulk. Wait a minute. I have no interest in going back, she said. Batali asked Carbone to join the team at his new spot Lupa, on Thompson Street. And Carbone is perhaps best seen as video streaming on an app, capturing this Sinatra-washed rigatoni fantasia, one that unfolds as if on a New York back lot in an L.A. movie studio filling in for Greenwich Village. All rights reserved 2023 The Real Deal is a registered Trademark of Korangy Publishing Inc. Watch: Developer Patrick Carroll "spits" on restaurant manager, L&L, Mitsubishi default on Plaza District office tower, Hall of Famer Mike Piazza lists Miami Beach estate for $18.5M, Major Food Group expands to South Florida, New York restaurateurs decamp to South Florida. Carbone went for drinks with him at the Jane Hotel. Prior to becoming a restaurateur, Jeff worked as an investment banker for J.P. Morgan and then a manager at the Mandarin Oriental. Rosen knew there would be backlash about telling the masters of the universe their $49 single crab cake would be made by guys in their 30s that food blog commentators loved to call douchebags. And, always willing to play with the intersection of food and experience, Major Food Group had several collaborations on its roster. Within hours of dinner, the Daily Mail and @deuxmoi had each reported that Rodrigo had been at Carbone on the night before the Met Gala, complete with Thompson-Street-as-runway snaps of her in a see-through chain-mail dress. I cant imagine we need it all, Carbone says. And we can make shit happen on the fly.(Nota bene to the rich and famous: Advance warning is key. No idea what came next. They were drawn to the namesake restaurant opened by Rocco Stanziano in 1922, steps away from some of the first churches for Italian immigrants in the country, which served locals and the occasional Italian-descended royaltyJoe DiMaggio is said to have come along with Marilyn Monroe in the 1950s, and De Niro dropped in as late as the 2000s. The Florida governor is the Fox-loving, lib-owning successor-in-waiting to Donald Trumps cult of personality. It received a glowing two-star review from The New York Times and was named one of GQ's Most Outstanding Restaurants of 2015. To eat at Carbone Beach, the price tag was $3,000 per person. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2016 as a Met. No end date. I name a lot of different restaurants, and for whatever reason, they just latched on to Carbone, its become so synonymous with the account, one of the founders of @deuxmoi tells me on a phone call. Then in Seattle. This sort of critical appraisal is something of an important marker in the evolution of fine dining in New York. Velvety jewel-tone nooks define the bar area upon entry before youre led into the main dining room, fashioned in a palette of terracotta and emerald green with damask-upholstered walls and leather banquettes. But what if it actuallywas impossible to get a table at Carbone?). The couple sold the property to Major Food Group co-founder and co-owner Jeffrey Zalaznick and his wife, Alison, who were renting the mansion prior to closing on it in mid-April, records show.. Inside Wealth-Conference Con Man Anthony Ritossas Wild Web of Lies, Inventing Ivana Trump: Her Improbable Rise and Tragic Death. It was a young generation of people, ourselves, not doing something youthful, Carbone says. The opening galvanized the surge in Florida-bound migration, and many more New York institutions began to follow Major Food Groups lead. Who are the residents at 1155 Park Avenue New York, in addition to Jeffrey C Zalaznick? Later that year, MFG opened ZZ's Clam Bar to celebrate the group's passion for raw fish and well-crafted cocktails. I met everybody in town who was great; people from Europe came, Rosen said I always gravitated back to Jeff., He liked the mix of creativity, chutzpah and business acumen that the three partners offered, and how Jeff complemented the two chefs. It started as an ordinary work trip. Then theres the recently announced private Carbone inside a members club set for some not-too-distant future in Hudson Yards. He then struck out on his own and conceived, developed and sold two highly . The Carbone trio enlisted Zac Posen to design the captains tuxedos. An overpriced douchetrap, read another. The outdoor patio feels more laidback, with rattan ceiling fans, eclectic furniture and lush greenery as a nod to Havana, bringing a distinct Miami flair to theCarbone experience. We are a fine dining restaurant but not in a formal setting. It was rampant in Westchester. By the time COVID-19 broke out in 2020, the restaurant group had already expanded its book of businesses, adding a range of playful, glamorous and extravagant eateries, including seafood bar ZZs, brunch spot Sadelles, and steakhouse Dirty French. In Miami when youre hot youre hot, and when youre not youre not. Dramatic crystal chandeliers and Murano sconces light the space with detailed Malachite beams that stretch across the ceiling. Enlarge Image. I was the gofer. When Rocco started serving pasta a century ago, the South Village was a nexus for immigrants from the Mezzogiornothe southern part of the old country. MFG's restaurants are conceptualized to uphold the highest level of food quality and fine dining service in a fun and inviting atmosphere for the guest. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. Beside us is a stack of about 500 loaves of bread. First up was the flagship space of Boulud, who is in Carbone parlance one of the LeBron Jameses of this thing. Carbone had a surefire plan to get a gig. These are for yousticks just to commemorate, and they should be right up your alley because I kind of know your profile, the man says. It was the 17th restaurant he'd opened in 16 months. Instead, he took time off from running the free world to share veal Parm and the porterhouse with his daughters at Carbone in 2015then went back to Carbone again in 2017, this time after he departed the White House.). Having planted their flag all over the city, Rich Torrisi, Mario Carbone and Jeff Zalaznick, the restaurateurs behind Major Food Group, are going back to their roots. They are masters of showmanship. Also a Move: that time the waiter handed over comically large menus and then rattled off the nights oysters, a list as long as the names of who begat whom in the book of Genesis, ending with New Brunswickand thats Canada, not Jersey! But then again, for a certain demographic, Italian American men who have a nostalgic vision of New York as a romantic postwar playground, maybe meeting Mario Carbone, whose conjuring of a version of this world is somewhat miraculous, is akin to an audience with a godor at least a pope. Jeff Zalaznick: ZZ's is about exclusivity and luxury. In Boston, Major Food Group worked with the developers of the Newbury Boston hotel, located in a historic downtown building on Newbury Street, to curate the food, beverage and other lifestyle elements of the hotel, including a rooftop bar called Contessa that opened last July. They are a father and son who have made the couple-hour drive from Longview to Dallas just to meet their hero, Mario Carbone, the man who charges Kendall Jenner and Bella Hadid as much as $100 a plate for his gussied-up Italian American food. but my parents are from Sicily, he says, turning toward his dad. All weekend long in Miamiwhere he relocated with his girlfriend, the powerful TikTok star publicist Cait Bailey, during the pandemiche was personally plating the rigatoni and flipping the steaks on the grills while also playing politician, greeting VIPs, and introducing the talent onstage. In 2010, Jeff met his match in visionary chefs Mario Carbone and Rich Torrisi at Torrisi Italian Specialties. Or that a tablemate came back from the bathroom to announce he had just been introduced to Olivia Rodrigo, the stratospheric 19-year-old pop star, who was sitting with, among others, the actor Sebastian Stan and Valentino creative director Pierpaolo Piccioli. So we drove three hours, the younger man says, stuttering a bit, clearly nervous. In Carbones first two months of existence, the site published 25 stories about the place, often under the same rubric: Carbone Fever. It was one of those restaurants where they got everything right, Leventhal said. Despite such doubts, the party starts to heat up. My grandfather was a great leader, a real estate guy, and hopefully I can honor his legacy, Zalaznick said. Get regular updates from NYT Cooking, with recipe suggestions, cooking tips and shopping advice. Major Food Group has expanded rapidly since inking its first South Florida lease last year. Then another Move: Carbone takes out one of the cigars gifted to him, looks me in the eye, and lights it as Sinatra hits the last high note in My Way. Torrisi is standing nearby, downing a glass of wine. Carbones like a movie set, where every waiters like an actor, says Daniel Boulud, who once employed Carbone and Torrisi at his own Caf Boulud. The property features a guesthouse, 100 feet of deep water frontage with a dock and boat lift, a pool and wet bar. China was locking down. Torrisi and Carbone knew the guy, they had grappa after tasting-menu meals at the restaurant sometimes, so it wasnt all that strange. Sheeple and celebrities = sweet spot, one wrote. It was chip-on-your-shoulder cooking, like, all these other restaurants have twice as many cooks, all this new equipment, and were gonna fucking outcook them with nothing but our sheer will and technique.. Rich and Mario would have been successful on their own. New revelations about how one Trump staffer helped preserve the transfer of powerfrom the forthcoming book on the Biden White House. The Four Seasons had operated in the space since it opened in 1959, and had hosted regulars like Jackie Kennedy and Henry Kissinger, and, once, Princess Diana. Dirty French is a New York bistro created by Major Food Group's Mario Carbone, Rich Torrisi and Jeff Zalaznick. They were a part of this fuck-you generation, they were ready to do anything to get ahead, they were so ambitious.. Theyre capturing lightning in the bottle over and over again, said chef Eli Kulp, who worked with Major Food Group in its early days. He worked at seafood joints in Queens to make pocket money for dates, and after high school decided to bet on cooking as a way forward. By the turn of the century, the Milstein familys holdings were worth about $5 billion, according to The New York Times. When I started thinking about what kind of brand partner we would want to have to develop this building with us, I immediately thought of Jeff, Stern said. It was in that cramped space that Zalaznick first met with Torrisi and Carbone. We drove here just for a chance to meet you. The new as-yet-to-be-named project will move into the back of the Puck Building in the former location of Chefs Club, which closed during the pandemic. That Nevo held court at a table in the back room wasnt reported anywhere. Three of Paul and Irma Milstein's four children attended Cornell -- Roslyn Milstein Meyer '71, Howard '73, and Barbara Milstein Zalaznick '76 -- as did son-in-law David Zalaznick '76, the current vice chairman of the Cornell Board of Trustees; and grandson Jeffrey Zalaznick '05. Celebrities are just fucking people toothey might not be normal people, but they are people like anyone else, he says. Their love for producing food and having a showcase is more important, Rosen said. Designed by the architectural giants Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson, it featured soaring 22-foot-tall windows, walnut paneling and an indoor pool. douchebags, all of you! went another. Carbone Beach. After a spell serving sandwiches at lunch to modest returns, some press accompanied one of their first dinner services, and soon they were drawing lines around the block. Jeff Zalaznick is a restaurateur and entrepreneur. This quickly became one of the most applauded and sought-after hospitality complexes in America, earning praises and accolades such as "Best Restaurant in America" from numerous national publications. Phyllis Lambertthe daughter of Seagram president Samuel Bronfman, who commissioned the building in the 1950swrote a blistering op-ed for The New York Times about the restaurant swap, saying Mr. Theres also a renewed Torrisi, a collaboration with Kith in Paris, a hotel in Boston, and for its newest move: a branded condominium with Michael Sterns JDS Development in Miami. And we had entrepreneurial ambitions separately. And they said, The new thing, thats supposed to be your space. First, there already is an outpost of Carbone in Miami, just a short drive down Collins Avenue, one thats large enough to pull off close to a thousand covers on a big night. Anyone can read what you share. And it was a rocket ship right out of the gate.. I was gonna do it, and I was gonna do the shit out of it.. When I asked Carmellini what he made of the Carbone concept when he first heard of it, he suggested it was ambitious to say the least. One last Move: placing a Tesla-size basket of chestnuts and other unidentifiable shells on the tableThis is a nutcracker, and ladies, you only use them on these nuts.. Youre doing something very old, when youre young. He wears his restaurant world celebrity with the well-groomed mien of a guy with a few menswear podcasts in the Spotify queue. So then Jeffs on squad, hes making calls, hes doing all sorts of shithes figuring out how to be a restaurateur, Carbone recalls. More than thatthey had a similar idea. I have zero issue with coming off as a villain in the press, he told Town & Country. In the 1980s, the brothers developed a Madison Avenue building for Bank of America, were instrumental in revitalizing Times Square, and branched out into finance, acquiring the Emigrant Savings Bank New Yorks oldest savings institution. At one point, a friend who represented the building at 181 Thompson Street told Zalaznick about the site, that they were renting the retail space, which for 90 years had been held by a legendary but bygone Greenwich Village red-sauce joint called Rocco Restaurant. Everything else is an interpretation through the Major Food Group lens. Its really hard to explain., Torrisi has a more direct theory. In 2009, then president Barack Obama caused a stir by eating at Il Mulino with former president Bill Clinton, but theres no indication Obama ever went back. The family of Nelson Mezerhane has owned it since 1984. Did this sort of thing happen all the time? When talking about the restaurant, Carbone and Torrisi often bring up a concept they have dubbed The Move. The Moves are wink wink mini performances pulled off by the servers that weave together into a narrative, a series of over-accommodation that will charm and overwhelm and crescendo until you have been pomodoro-pilled. He said pandemic restrictions made it impossible to maintain the restaurants approach bringing in chefs from elsewhere and having them interact with customers. He also said there is enough space for them to expand their fund-raising effort, Major Good, a series of dinners and other events to benefit Robin Hood, which they have been running from the original Torrisi location. See jobs Follow See all 310 employees About us Major Food. Jeff Zalaznick, 32 Managing partner, Major Food Group Tweet More Jeff Zalaznick may appear to be the business brains of Major Food Grouppartners Rich Torrisi and Mario Carbone are chefsbut. Caf Boulud was intentionally difficult, Chang told The New Yorker in 2008. The Major Food Group team scored prime real estate in the exclusive South of Fifth neighborhood on 49 Collins Avenue a stones throw away from Miami mainstays, Joes Stone Crab and Prime 112, which Zalaznick professes was an absolute dream. The stars aligned for Carbone Miami. Together, the trio formed Major Food Group (MFG), a new breed of restaurant group seeking to operate restaurants that are respectful of the past, exciting for the present, and sustainable for the future. With celebrities, I think that we do a good job of preaching anonymity, and we welcome them and try to do our best to keep them in their own little world and bubble and take care of them as we would anybody else, as best you can. My wife and I got engaged on Ellis Island six years ago and our first meal after getting engaged was at Parm. The man, who is just over five feet tall, takes out a bag of cigars. It was booked solid for the rest of the year. Halegua and Zalaznick headed over to Thompson Street and stopped in front of Roccos, one of the longest-running Italian restaurants in the city, known by its distinctive neon sign. $135 per person for FUCKING SPAGHETTI??? After hearing the Torrisi buzz, Zalaznick went back for a second meal, then went out for a drink with Carbone, and they instantly connected over their shared philosophy on food and a vision for a possible future restaurant. Its a great wall of bread, chef, says Chef Ed. What Carbone coming to South Beach did was validate that Miami was a vibrant community and a foodie scene, Ellis said. Additional. Thats a Move.. Some of them we know through the years now. A month after Carbone opened in Miami in January 2021, the group opened Sadelles inside the flagship of streetwear brand Kith in Paris. Piazza, who is considered one of baseballs best offensive catchers, played for the New York Mets and Los Angeles Dodgers, as well as briefly for the then-Florida Marlins. But for all DeSantiss bona fides and rocketing national profile, doubts about his own persona (calculated, aloof, cold-blooded) persist. It was in California, New York, France. When he got back to the States, he thought he had the stuff to make it in the kitchens stacked with chefs who would come to define the next two decades of restaurants in New York. But it works. Property records show the Piazzas paid $10 million for the Tuscan-style home in 2008. As we walk through the cramped kitchen, Carbone tells me that the nights crowd will be made up mostly of investors and friends and family, an elaborate cocktail party, he says. My kind of mentors were Italians who hated Italian American cooking, because it wasnt Italian.. The team continues its Florida expansion with ZZs Sushi Bar: a Japanese restaurant and membership club in the heart of the Miami Design District, slated to open later this month. But I was like Rudy Ruettiger at fucking Notre Dame. We knew exactly what we wanted to say, how we wanted to say it. Kanye West and Julia Fox went on their first date at the Miami outpost on New Years Day, and then followed up three days later with another dateat Carbone in New York, as they vamped for the paparazzi. When looking for an externship, Carbone sent letters to all of the restaurants on a local magazines top 50 list and heard back from very few. It can be hard to put a finger on Major Food Groups magic, but certainly the attention to formfrom napkin and menu design, to the uniforms of the waitstaffis paramount. Im terrified of this man. Unlike your usual celeb-studded clubstaurantsyour Taos and your Buddakans and your Catchesthe cuisine at Carbone has earned three stars from Pete Wells at The New York Times. They were a little bit of a clique, says Boulud. By 2010, the 27-year-old Zalaznick had had enough of being on the sidelines. With [Jeff], it was quite the opposite. Piazza and his wife also own a unit at the Ritz-Carlton Residences, Miami Beach, which they acquired in 2019 for $5.6 million, according to property records. There was a lot of Good for you, kids! for a long time, the first couple of years. Ron DeSantis: The Making and Remaking (and Remaking) of a MAGA Heir. Mr. Torrisi said he and his partners were happy to be returning to NoLIta and to be part of what they see as a resurgence of restaurant activity in the city. Spaghetti and meatballs was invented here by Italians who saw their jobs eliminated as the Industrial Revolution spread down the boot, forcing them to come to America in droves until the National Origins Act of 1924 limited immigration. This was early internet 2.0 days, the heyday of recommendation engines and the blogosphere. Its a reality of how the majority of palates and pocketbooks in this city roll.. LeBron James alone managed to stop by Carbone Beach on four consecutive nights. It should be us. Its going to be a very hedonistic experience.. Hed go to Bouluds four-sparkler East Side temple of Gallic haute cuisine and slip a rsum in his pocket to pass to the chef-owner. Major Food Group And JDS Development Part Ways at MAJOR, Rebranded As 888 Miami. A friend from New York who relocated to Dallas for a job in the art world says that in her experience, Texans are very set in their ways, and the New York imports dont really work here. (Il Mulino New York lasted all of two years in Dallas and closed in 2006. My names Mario Carbone. But its taken on a new dimension of late. Led by Co-Founders Mario Carbone, Jeff Zalaznick, and Rich Torrisi, MFG established roots in Miami at the beginning of 2021 with two smash successes: CARBONE in the South of Fifth neighborhood and the private membership venue ZZ's Club in the Miami Design District. Zalaznick quickly made it back to New York, where he got ready to take his family on a ski vacation to Aspen, Colo. By then a case of the COV-SARS-19 disease had been detected in Europe. So when they were watching me, I was always in the kitchen.. To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. Carbone had worked at Lupa right across the street. Soon it was nine cases, then 14. You can expect a deli and restaurant, highlighting our approach to cuisine, he said. And then we came out with $50 veal Parms and tuxedos and they were like, Wait a minute. Instead, Zalaznick and Major Food Group shifted their focus to Miami, which had become a destination for Northerners freed from the office and fleeing lockdown. Then the restaurant opened in March 2013, and Eater couldnt stop writing about it. In September 2014, MFG opened Dirty French, an edgy New York bistro that takes its cues from the great legacy of the neighborhood and relevant worldly influences, in The Ludlow Hotel. I dont get this. The roommates decided to join forces. Joni Evans, the former publisher of Random House, told New Yorks Grub Street blog that it was like losing your childhood homeand learning that theyve moved it to the Bronx. Just three months after signing the lease, Zalaznick and his partners, chefs Rich Torrisi and Mario Carbone, were hosting A-list celebs, New York expats and real estate bigwigs including Barry Sternlicht, David Grutman, Craig Robins and J.P. Perez for a preview night at Carbone.