Mr. Chow Coming To The W Hotel South Beach
Mr. Chow, the legendary swanky Chinese restaurant with locations in New York, Beverly Hills and London, is coming to the soon-to-be-opened W Hotel on South Beach. The hotel will also feature a Mediterranean-themed restaurant — someone has been chosen to run it, but the hotel couldn't release those details yet — that'll open on June 2, with the hotel. We'll all have to wait a bit long for Mr. Chow; we're told they're hoping for a July opening, although nothing is definite yet. And we all know those restaurants always open right on schedule.
For a good idea of what we're getting, check out this profile of Michael Chow in New York Magazine:
To eat at a Mr. Chow restaurant is to participate in a roving party, one that has migrated through four decades, three continents, and an awful lot of soup dumplings. It is to acknowledge that the rich and famous will get better tables than the rest of us, and everyone will have a better time for it. In his L.A. restaurant, Mae West got a standing ovation just for finishing her dinner. And it was at Mr. Chow on 57th Street that John Lennon took his last meal before walking home across the park. It was the center of London’s swinging sixties, L.A.’s silky seventies, and the glamorous debauch of the Manhattan art world, circa 1984. Mr. Chow on 57th Street is still a party—now starring Lenny Kravitz or Jay-Z—seven nights a week.Not that we're lacking in sleek celeb-studded restaurants/bars/clubs down here (or Mediterranean restaurants for that matter), but we can make room for one more.
The Sayings of Chairman Chow [NY Magazine]
Photo: Of the inside of Mr. Chow at the W Hotel South Beach
