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Our new managing agent: Pierre Zarzour pzarzour@akam.com

212-986-0001 ext 169

his assistant: Jillian Rothenberg, jrothenberg@akam.com  ext 181

his boss: Alexis Kaminoff, akkaminoff@akam.com, ext 145

Akam VP: Michael Basile, mbasile@akam.com, ext 113

As Chris Cannon, formerly a partner in Convivio and Alto, prepares to return to Manhattan this fall with a new restaurant called All’onda,  In a market crowded with salumi boards, how will this new venture fit in or stand out? To get some perspective, Eater.com asked Chris:

What’s the difference between All’onda and every other Italian restaurant in New York? I think we’re taking…effectively, what we’re trying to do is take Venetian cuisine that’s always been a cuisine that is a meeting point of a number of different cultures — as most cuisine actually in Italy is — and Venetian cuisine has always been a meeting point with Eastern cuisine and culture.  I think that what we are trying to do is basically take Venetian cuisine and a lot of seafood cuisine in Venice and take a very sophisticated Japanese lens and apply it to traditional Italian cuisine. So, I would say that you take a traditional dish and really not changing the basic components of traditional Italian cuisine, but changing in the sense that you’re taking the same ingredients and treating them a little bit differently and making them more modern, more interesting.

The corner of University and 10th will soon be graced by Amorino, a very upscale French purveyor of fine gelato. Just in time for spring.

Spacious,

the co-working space, has opened a large new facility at 34 Union Square East, former home of TGI Fridays.

Visit Rookie on Union Square West for your children’s clothes needs. In the former location of American Eagle.

This cool undated photo shows the northwest corner of 5th Ave. and 13th St. back when the building housed the headquarters of Phillip Morris.