What are those cagey guys at Cipriani Downtown up to? We hear from a tipster they're in the middle of some curious redecorating: "Cipriani soho as we speak is removing the pricey Peter Beard paintings and replacing them with paintings/photos of lesser quality, prints even. They are loading the Peter Beards into the truck as if they were trash, banging them up...is this a renovation or another cipriani scandal...." Any guesses as to why the big C is removing the pieces from the famous artist? Curious indeed.
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Every once in awhile we like to peruse the DOH inspections reports to see who's kept things up to snuff viz a vis the health codes. The Health Dept.'s most recent list includes over 720 restaurants that failed inspection and have to clean up or risk getting shut down. The list features a number of lower tier restaurants (your Panda Houses and M&J Diners), some chains (your Burger Kings and Cold Stone Creameries), and a number of generic Manhattan bars (Libation, Fat Baby). But the following places are worth noting:
1) The biggest stand out by far this time around is Cipriani Downtown. Their DOH visit just two weeks ago earned them a relatively high inspection score of 52. The most worrisome violations: "Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation...Hand washing facility not provided in or near food preparation area and toilet room...Shellfish not from approved source, improperly tagged/labeled; tags not retained for 90 days."
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Every once in awhile we like to peruse the DOH inspections reports to see who's kept things up to snuff viz a vis the health codes. The Health Dept.'s most recent list includes over 720 restaurants that failed inspection and have to clean up or risk getting shut down. The list features a number of lower tier restaurants (your Panda Houses and M&J Diners), some chains (your Burger Kings and Cold Stone Creameries), and a number of generic Manhattan bars (Libation, Fat Baby). But the following places are worth noting:
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