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Grub Street - New York Magazine's Food and Restaurant Blog (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
Misting up a little at Lewis's kind words… Photo: Patrick McMullan Some good news for Matt Levine, whose soon-to-open club the Eldridge , um, “captured the fascination” of commenters and inspired, um, “tributes” such as club NM-UH and, presumably, El Baño . It seems Levine is moonlighting as a contestant on VH1’s Project Runway –type show Glam Gods , but that doesn’t dissuade...
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Eater (Free subscription) | 08/29/2008
Much has been written about the character Matt Levine and his yet-to-debut super duper exclusive butler-run LES spot the Eldridge. But until today, we didn't realize the man was a reality TV star, a fact we're sure will piss off...
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Radar (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
Matt Levine, owner of soon-to-be-opened club/lounge The Eldrige, on Manhattan's Lower East Side, would like to clear up some of the misconceptions about his place you might have gotten if you read pieces like this one and this one. To that end, he's taken
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Radar (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
SURE, IT'S NOT MUCH TO LOOK AT NOW, BUT WAIT UNTIL IT'S FULL OF DOUCHES Eldridge Those of you who keep track on the gentrification of Manhattan's Lower East Side—the neighborhood's is the euphemism hotelier Jason Pomeranc prefers—may have been amused by the on New York Magazine's website about a soon-to-be-opened bar called "The Eldridge." Well, not just any bar: owner Matt Levine, who...
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Eater (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
Matt Levine, owner of the soon to open super hot club The Eldridge, sits down for another interview, this time with Steve Lewis. He still might rub you the wrong way, but we do learn one vital detail: When he...
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Grub Street - New York Magazine's Food and Restaurant Blog (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
“It’s a place that I want to keep kind of stealth.” Rendering courtesy of the Eldridge As you might have heard, the Lower East Side has a new hidden bottle-service lounge, and even though it only has 13 tables, it’s manned by chaperones, butlers, table attendants, and a hospitality consultant. So what exactly are all these things? We asked owner Matt Levine, the designer of Steelo, to...
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Grub Street - New York Magazine's Food and Restaurant Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Matt Levine told us the Eldridge was too cool for weekends, but this is Fashion Week, and the lounge everyone has loved to hate has parties booked fourteen nights in a row. Though we’re the first to come back with photos, a couple of other bloggers have penetrated the faux -bookstore front, and their reviews are … favorable! Club designer Steve Lewis, who lasted just five minutes at...
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Eater (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
Oh man. The first review of the super exclusive Matt Levine club, the Eldridge, is UP. The blogger NY Barfly went by the new space to see what all the fuss was about, and his verdict: Matt Levine is definitely...
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Eater (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
On the House is our regular column written by the owners and operators food and beverage establishments in New York. Today, your proprietor is Mr. Matt Levine, owner of the upcoming space The Eldridge. My name is Matt Levine, 26...
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Eater (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
... with bottles of Champagne—they're all brushed gold, as is the floor..." More importantly, owner Matt Levine admits his comments in the NYMag interview were kind of douchey: " Yeah, I came off sounding like a jackass ...But, you know, now business is really picking up." [Radar] FLUSHING — Eating in Translation checks in on that mall in Queens, put on the map by a Times article and...
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Vh1 Blog (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
... contestant Indashio Glam God contestant Jess Zaino Glam God contestant Joachim Glam God contestant Matt Levine Glam God contestant Preston Conrad Glam God contestant Stacy Cox Glam God contestant Tiger Lily hill Related content Glam God show page
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Grub Street - New York Magazine's Food and Restaurant Blog (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
We walked by the Eldridge this morning and saw this new signage promising “Rare Books” and “Used Books.” Genius! Apparently, when Matt Levine told us and then Bottomless Dish , Good Night Mr. Lewis , and Paper that he was going to open an exclusive club, he was just faking everyone out. It’s actually a bookstore he’s opening! A bookstore that everyone thinks is a club ! A very noble...
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Eater (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
Anyone following the Eldridge story will enjoy the recent comments on Citysearch's interview with owner Matt Levine. Note: they are not sarcastic. [Bottomless Dish]
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Grub Street - New York Magazine's Food and Restaurant Blog (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
Matt Levine, designer turned club owner. Photo: Patrick McMullan We bring word of exclusive clubs all the time, so we were a little surprised by the barrage of comments — almost 100! — sparked by Jada Yuan’s interview with Matt Levine about the Eldridge. Fair is fair, so we’ve asked Levine to respond to them, but in the meantime, the one and only Craigslist Ko-thario...
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Gawker (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
Nightlife is an ugly business full of pretty people. The rules for 26-year-old clothing designer Matt Levine's new sethirteen-table LES bar, the Eldridge, are simple. "Friends and family. That’s...
