Pulino's Bar and Pizzeria, which apparently tripled nearby rents and caused men to urinate in the co-ed sink, will close in January to make way for a new Keith McNally concept, Eater is reporting.
The McNally-owned Pulino's will reopen in March as a French restaurant called Cherche Midi, which was also the name of a French military prison in Paris.
Eater quotes McNally:
Through no one's fault but my own Pulino's hasn't fully worked and I've decided to change it quite radically.
Pulino's opened on the Bowery at East Houston Street in March 2010.