Peter Hoffman and his Prince Street restaurant, Savoy, are often credited with getting the locavore movement started in New York — Hoffman was seasonal and local long before it was cool. Well, now that the rest of the world has caught up, a rep for Hoffman writes in to say that Savoy will close June 18, though Hoffman will open a new, casual concept in the space “later this year.” The seventeen-year-running dinner series, which has featured readings and talks from the likes of Fergus Henderson and Mark Bittman, will carry on at Hoffman’s East Village restaurant, Back Forty.