Openings

Chris Santos Eyes Furniture Store for Future Hypemachine

Photo: Bowery Boogie

Last month, Grub Street learned that the mysterious restaurateurs going into the old M. Katz furniture store at 146 Essex Street were “pretty big people” in the food world. Now a Bowery Boogie tipster suggests that it’s none other than Stanton Social’s Chris Santos, whose previously address-less (and still nameless) restaurant is already garnering hype: The Post devoted a feature to Santos last week, who plugged his “more serious, more sophisticated” venture. [Bowery Boogie]

Chris Santos Eyes Furniture Store for Future Hypemachine