Wegmans Is Opening a Restaurant, and It’s Not What You’d Expect Next Door, with a focus on fresh seafood and Japanese cooking, opens in the Astor Place store this month.

Lucien Smith Gets a JobHe was an up-and-coming art star — until he quit his galleries. Now he’s reviving the legendary Soho artists restaurant Food.

No one would accuse Lucien Smith of being original, least of all Smith himself. “I’ve always role-played as a painter, role-played as a fine artist,” he says, swiveling in a chair in his studio.

Wegmans Is Opening a Restaurant, and It’s Not What You’d Expect Next Door, with a focus on fresh seafood and Japanese cooking, opens in the Astor Place store this month.

Wegmans Is Opening a Restaurant, and It’s Not What You’d Expect Next Door, with a focus on fresh seafood and Japanese cooking, opens in the Astor Place store this month.

Wegmans Is Opening a Restaurant, and It’s Not What You’d Expect Next Door, with a focus on fresh seafood and Japanese cooking, opens in the Astor Place store this month.

Wegmans Is Opening a Restaurant, and It’s Not What You’d Expect Next Door, with a focus on fresh seafood and Japanese cooking, opens in the Astor Place store this month.

Wegmans Is Opening a Restaurant, and It’s Not What You’d Expect Next Door, with a focus on fresh seafood and Japanese cooking, opens in the Astor Place store this month.

When Good Chefs Hide in Bad Rooms The Otter and Brass are two restaurants with plenty to recommend. It’s too bad they don’t have windows.

Wegmans Is Opening a Restaurant, and It’s Not What You’d Expect Next Door, with a focus on fresh seafood and Japanese cooking, opens in the Astor Place store this month.