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“We have a club next door so it’s perfect for guests who don’t want to get full because they’re gonna go to a club or a lounge after.” “We came up with the crudo bar because I wanted to have this fresh, light food that was very clean, low-calorie, high protein,” Lane says. Café Medi, which has already played host to a dinner party for Penelope Cruz, is situated next to newly opened lounge Jia, hidden two doors down behind a red graffiti door. ” He shifted to Mediterranean, a cuisine with a lightness that fits in with the neighborhood’s nightlife scene. “I was kind of going to rally my troops and bring French here,” he says, “But I didn’t know that the Major Food Group was building Dirty French. Lane and Buchelli had originally envisioned a French restaurant in the space, but adjusted their plans as the neighborhood shifted. I saw The Standard, Avenue, Tao, Abe & Arthur’s….I just saw the neighborhood kind of coming into its own, and I kind of feel that now.” “So in the time I was open, from 2006 to 2014, I saw everything come. “When I got into the Meatpacking in 2006 there was Pastis, there was Tenjune and there was One,” he says. Lane was approached by the hotel’s owner Paul Stallings for his expertise in New York City nightlife, after the success of his Meatpacking hotspots. Mugler x H&M’s Collaboration Campaign Photos It’s kind of like the last wild neighborhood of New York.” “I live two blocks away, so I appreciate the rawness of it. “I think that the Lower East Side is evolving and there’re a lot of wonderful things opening,” Lane says. Together they see it adding to the budding “it”-ness of the neighborhood. Lane, whose background includes Gansevoort Market, Beaumarchais, and Kiss & Fly, is partnered with Roberto Buchelli in Café Medi, which is helmed in the kitchen by executive chef Vincent Chirico of the Upper West Side’s Vai. The Mediterranean restaurant, which opened Wednesday, is the latest to join the surge of restaurants and hotels opening in the stretch of lower Manhattan, including a new outpost of SoHo House on Ludlow Street, the popular Hotel Indigo and a second New York location for the Ace Hotel. “We wanted to do something that was not necessarily already existing in the neighborhood,” says Corey Lane, partner at the newly minted Café Medi, situated inside the Lower East Side’s Hotel on Rivington.
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