Celebrity chefs close Manhattan restaurant, focus on 3 Staten Island places
Updated Mar 08, 2021;
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. Celebrity chefs Dave Pasternack and Vic Rallo have closed their award-winning Hell’s Kitchen restaurant, Esca. The business partners have Staten Island roots with Pastavino, Navy Pier Prime and Navy Pier Taproom in Stapleton’s Urby complex.
The pair issued a statement to announce the Manhattan restaurant news. It read, “Following a year of uncertainty surrounding our neighborhood, city, industry, and country, this was not an easy decision. Unfortunately, with the timeline for a return to normalcy still so unclear, this was the only remaining option available to us.”