*Sigh* … Obika. What are we going to do with you? When I first heard that Obika, the Italian mozzarella bar chain, would be opening it’s first American outpost in Midtown I was pretty excited. It sounded really good. Actually, that’s not true. It sounded expensive. Imported meats and cheeses? There was no way this place [...]
Posted: 11:30 am, November 6th, 2008 under 56th btw. Mad+5th, Italian, Obika.
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In October of last year it was reported that Obika would be opening one of their Italian mozzarella bars in the atrium on 56th Street and Madison Ave. Plywood went up, and everyone in the upper right hand corner of Midtown has been waiting for the arrival of what could be a pretty cool place in an otherwise [...]
Posted: 8:30 am, August 14th, 2008 under 56th btw. Mad+5th, Italian, Obika.
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I don’t know how I missed this one… but if you’d like to enjoy your lunch in front of some “art”, the atrium inside 590 Madison (enter on 56th St. btw. 5th+Madison) is housing Murakami’s “Oval Buddha”, a sculpture that was too large to fit in the Murakami show at the Brooklyn Museum. [...]
Posted: 9:42 am, June 5th, 2008 under 56th btw. Mad+5th.
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