Openings: Wine Lounge @ Le Cirque
Ken Scrudato
March 20, 2008
Turtles will fly before Sirio Maccioni runs out of tricks to keep his fabled New York eatery from ever veering into dullsville. His latest is the new Wine Lounge at Le Cirque (note avoidance of use of shopworn word Enoteca), tapping into the backlash against uppity, overpriced cuisine by offering a decidedly more hip, laid back experience. One may even nibble on tarte flambé sans jacket, a radical philosophical (or maybe just aesthetic?) departure for the charmingly classically inclined Sirio. Still, never one to ever make a middling gesture, the décor features a mod and massive Tower of Babel of sorts, containing untold bottles of undoubtedly very-well-selected wines, and the lounge’s ceiling design could only be described as a full-scale invasion of fashionable UFOs. But of course.
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