News Summary

• Lucien Smith has said that his new Canal Street restaurant, Food, is a sort of revitalization of the famous artist-run restaurant that opened with the same name in Soho in the ’70s.
• One night in mid-September, two employees say, a “neighborhood guy’ came into the restaurant at close to midnight, visibly intoxicated and displaying alarming signs of mental-health issues.
• They say this man grabbed a chair from a next-door restaurant and threatened to break Food’s windows.