Good restaurants don’t rain down from nowhere, but Crown Shy came close. No doubt it went through the same birth pangs as all the others. Yet Crown Shy doesn’t come from Danny Meyer, Andrew Carmellini or any of the other usual suspects. Crown Shy’s chef, James Kent, used to run the kitchen at the NoMad, and his partner, Jeff Katz, is the managing partner at Del Posto. Then there is Crown Shy’s location, a sprawling, soaring, street-level space that, as far as anyone recalls, has never held a restaurant before.

Source: New York Times June 11, 2019 14:37 UTC