For more than two decades, the Pryor Cashman Restaurant, Food & Beverage practice has addressed the specialized needs of our clients in these businesses. Whether counseling chefs, startups or national, regional and metropolitan chains, we never lose sight of the quality, creativity and attention to detail that established the particular client’s reputation for excellence. We help quick-service, casual dining and fine-dining restaurants, as well as leading hospitality groups, hotels, real estate developers and food and beverage manufacturers and suppliers, organize and integrate the many moving parts of their operations. As our clients build their brands, we help them optimize and protect their intellectual property.

• Grand Central Terminal's Vanderbilt Hall will soon be filled with food pavilions and a restaurant from a master of new Nordic cuisine, Pryor Cashman client chef Claus Meyer. Meyer is one of the founders of Noma, a Copenhagen restaurant that boasts the distinction of having being chosen best restaurant in the world four of the past five years by Restaurant Magazine.
• Celebrated Spotted Pig restaurateurs April Bloomfield and Ken Friedman will manage a glamorous four-level restaurant/lounge owned by Pryor Cashman client Rose Associates atop the landmarked former AIG tower, the unnamed 70 Pine venue will be on floors 62-66 of the tower, which Rose Associates is converting to luxury rental apartments.
• Pryor Cashman client Ramen Lab, the tiny, standing-only noodle counter that offers up some of the city's best new ramen, has announced a transformation of sorts into an incubator for new ramen shops. The nearly four month old restaurant will stop serving its superlative shoyu and xo miso ramen the first week of May to make room for its first pop-up ramen-ya from Ichicoro Ramen, which will test out its different soup styles on New Yorkers before opening a Tampa, Florida-based shop later this summer.
• After graduating from the Culinary Institute of America, Pryor Cashman client chef Joe Isidori was hired by Donald Trump and eventually became his executive chef, overseeing all of the dining concepts for Trump's properties. Isidori returned to New York in 2011 and has opened three restaurants in the past four years. His latest establishment, Black Tap Craft Burgers & Beer, opened in March and focuses on craft burgers, beers and spirits.
• The New York Times’ Pete Wells was swept up in the sunny style of Santina, Pryor Cashman client Major Food Group’s latest successful restaurant opening: "Most of the food, particularly toward the top of the menu, is charming and playful in a way that's hard to fight. The rice-salad concept applied to shrimp zingara is a lively, spicy hit. Beyond seafood, Santina has a very winning way with vegetables." Two stars. In more Major Food Group news, New York’s critically acclaimed Carbone restaurant will bring its show-stopping, Italian-American dining experience to the bright lights of Las Vegas when it debuts this fall at ARIA Resort & Casino.
• Pryor Cashman client Havana Central, a popular Cuban-themed restaurant with roots in New York City, will further expand its operations when its first New Jersey location opens in late July at Edison's Menlo Park Mall. It comes to Menlo in midst of a major renovation of the mall that is expected to be completed in November, management said. Havana Central evokes the 1950s golden era of Cuba, capturing Havana's heyday as the world's most tantalizing playground through its festive ambiance, vibrant décor and mouth-watering food. Traditional dishes like vaca frita, ropa vieja and arroz con pollo are an unmistakable celebration of Cuban cuisine. The cocktail list includes signature sips, such as mojitos, sangrias and popular Latin American wines.

Pryor Cashman Corporate Partner and Restaurant, Food & Beverage practice Chair Richard Frazer advised the firm's Restaurant, Food & Beverage clients on their management agreements and, with assistance from Banking & Finance Counsel Louis Ciccone, Corporate Associate Michelle Pham and Real Estate Associate Ari Tran, their recent financings. Real Estate Partners Ronald Kremnitzer and Andrea Gendel and Counsel Benjamin Teig negotiated the leases, while Intellectual Property Partner Teresa Lee and Associate Muzamil Huq handled their intellectual property matters.