From left: Jane Goldman and Danny Meyer (Photograph Illustration by Steven Dilakian for The Actual Cope with Getty and Solil Administration)
A meals combat is breaking out on the Gramercy Park Resort. At the least it might if Danny Meyer might get into his restaurant there.
Meyer’s Union Sq. Hospitality Group has sued Solil Administration for refusing entry to Maialino on the floor flooring of the lodge, 2 Lexington Avenue.
The once-bustling eatery has been caught in a battle between two distinguished landlords. The case traces again to 2003, when Aby Rosen’s RFR Holdings took over the lodge. Rosen’s landlord was Solil, which owned the bottom under it.
In 2009, Meyer signed a lease with Rosen’s group to hire the restaurant house within the lodge. Maialino was buzzing alongside till the pandemic hit, at which level Rosen closed the lodge it was in and stopped paying hire.
As Rosen fell practically $1 million behind, Solil Administration sued in April 2021 to terminate the lodge’s lease and accumulate the $79.5 million Solil stated it was due underneath the long-term deal.
That authorized battle ended this June, when Solil received the case and the sheriff booted Rosen from the closed lodge, the place Solil alleged the iconoclastic developer had let his mom keep without cost (which he denied).
Meyer, although, remained locked out of Maialino.
His restaurant group claims it can’t get entry to its expansive wine and liquor assortment, precious art work, high-end kitchen gear, eating room and bar furnishings, china, glassware and silverware.
Meyer’s frustration turned to panic when Solil started promoting the lodge’s stuff to the general public. Although a property supervisor assured him the restaurant’s possessions wouldn’t be liquidated as properly, Meyer’s go well with claims the promise was reversed when Solil asserted in an Oct. 3 letter that the restaurant had “deserted” the property.
Meyer’s restaurant group is suing Solil for 3 causes of motion, every for practically $2 million.
Legal professionals for the defendant declined to remark. Solil didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
