![]() And then a few months ago, lo and behold, the name Degustation is revived-not as a French restaurant on Second Avenue but as a modern Spanish tapas bar of sorts, inhabiting, quite literally, the nearly unchanged old robata/kalbi bar on 5th Street. Robata becomes Grace’s Kalbi Bar and promptly closes. Needless to say, it never does, becoming, instead, Jewel Bako Robata, a 22-seat bar dedicated to Japanese grilling. In the same piece, the Times Magazine, clearly having fallen under Gentleman Jack’s powerful spell, reports that, back on 5th Street, the space next door to Jewel Bako proper will soon become a Hong Kong–style Chinese restaurant called Sino-Room. Instead, the space becomes Jewel Bako Makimono, a sushi-bar spinoff. Cut to the spring of 2004: The New York Times Magazine reports that the Blue Goose space has morphed into Degustation, a casual spot offering “French classics,” although at the time the story comes out, Degustation is a mere notion in Jack Lamb’s feverish head. Vines makes the jump from Blue Goose to Jack’s, where she deconstructs oysters Rockefeller, barbecues lobster, and wins a Beard Rising Star Award in the process. (A Ducasse-trained chef by the name of Allison Vines runs the kitchen.) A few months later, the Lambs unleash a raw bar and restaurant with a southern vibe called Jack’s Luxury Oyster Bar, spanning two tiny floors of their 5th Street townhouse. Two years later, they unveil Blue Goose, a quaint little café around the corner purveying Ceci-Cela croissants, Payard pastry, and pâté with cornichons. The story begins in the spring of 2001, when Jack and his wife, Grace, open their sushi bar Jewel Bako, securing them instant fame and success. Oddly enough, Jack Lamb, the suave, super-dapper, pocket-square-sporting, Hog-ridin’ gastropreneur-whose culinary fiefdom includes Jewel Bako, Jack’s Luxury Oyster Bar, and Jewel Bako Makimono-has been known to behave somewhat like a fickle schoolgirl when it comes to opening and closing restaurants.įor those who may not remember, not that anyone could, a brief, befuddling history is in order. ![]()
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