This week’s Side Dish is devoted to carnivores and the people who love them.
Celebrity chef David Burke is hunting for a prime location for a new steakhouse in Midtown Manhattan.
He’s on the prowl for 5,000 to 7,000 square feet with ample kitchen space downstairs for a meat drying room, along with a large bar upstairs and an area for a private party room, a source told Side Dish.
The ambitious move comes shortly after Burke launched David Burke Kitchen at the James Hotel. This will be Burke’s first steakhouse in Manhattan; he has Primehouse in Chicago, and David Burke Prime at Foxwoods Casino in Mashantucket, Conn.
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Hungry for hamburgers in Midtown? The Smith, a popular burger joint in the East Village at 53 Third Ave., is opening a second branch at East 51st Street and Second Avenue.
The burger bistro will have around 250 seats and hopes to open this fall, a source told Side Dish.
A third outpost is in the works as well.