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Photo from February]
San Loco closed on Feb. 16 after 15 years at 151 Avenue A, as we first reported
here.
Word is now that high-profile restaurateurs Ken Friedman and April Bloomfield are eyeing the former San Loco location for a cafe-bar concept that would be open early for breakfast … and late night for cocktails (with lunch and dinner in between). The place would curate a specific coffee, wine and cocktail program.
This application is on the May CB3/SLA agenda released yesterday (though their names aren't on it just yet).
Friedman and Bloomfield own such places as high-profile places like The Spotted Pig, The Breslin and The John Dory Oyster Bar … while Friedman has teamed with the likes of
Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter at The Monkey Bar and Taavo Somer at The Rusty Knot.
Avenue A looks to be going even more upscale in a hurry … with projects such as this,
the all-new 7A and Alex Stupak's new Mexican restaurant at
the former Sushi Lounge space.