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Rainbow Room loses pot of gold
New York's Rainbow Room is about to close its Rainbow Grill restaurant. Perched atop 30 Rockefeller Center, the restaurant has accumulated a reputation for dazzling views and putting you on top of the world in as close to the literal sense as possible. This week, the restaurant suffered its own fall ... a 65-storey fall, to be exact. The Rainbow Grill, which serves pricey Italian-style food, will shut down on January 12, 2009. The bar, banquet facilities and weekend dinner-dancing will live on, however. The twin culprits are the general economic decline and a dispute with its landlord, the "pirates" at Tishman Speyer.
Of course, everyone in Manhattan is entitled to a second act, and the Rainbow Room may come back. The Cipriani family, which owns the landmark restaurant, calls the decision temporary.
[Via MSNBC and Gawker]
Filed under: Arts and Culture, Food and Drink, North America, United States, News
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Enduring Wanderlust Jan 4th 2009 6:07PM
The Rainbow Room was a significant part of New York City. Sad. In this economy nothing is safe.
Marilyn Terrell Jan 5th 2009 5:46AM
Best restaurant view in New York, after Windows on the World bit the dust, along with the rest of the World Trade Center.