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...Batali, who has a history of predicting exactly what New York City wants to consume-he has helped devise and open eight successful Manhattan eateries in the last 13 years-had precisely predicted the operatic events surrounding the opening of his latest, Del Posto. Situated in the ridiculously trendy Meatpacking District, Del Posto occupies one of the grandest restaurant spaces in the city, where even four-star places usually use opulence to hide their cramped dimensions (expensive, feathery Riedel wine goblets break if you brush them with a fingernail, but they do keep one's focus on the table...
...Del Posto is both cavernous and opulent; it cost something like $12 million. But since it began serving meals in December, the place has been threatened by jaded Manhattanites skeptical of the valet parking (real New Yorkers walk), by restaurant critics who seem eager to see Batali finally stumble and by its own landlord, who is trying to close the place and evict its owners. I haven't even gotten to the part where the Hudson River flooded Del Posto, but the point is, this is a lot more fun than Don Giovanni...
...Batali and the other Del Posto principals-legendary impresario of Italian cuisine Lidia Matticchio Bastianich (host of the PBS cooking shows that bear her name) and her son Joseph, Batali's longtime partner and a winemaker-had never attempted something quite so spectacular as Del Posto. They knew they needed media attention, and they allowed a Food Network crew to visit the building site repeatedly. According to the show that resulted-Mario, FULL BOIL which aired February 18-construction was delayed interminably because engineers trying to lay the restaurant's foundation dug themselves into the Hudson River. Water soaked...
CHRIS GODWIN Delaware City, Del...
...Bijeljina. Soon it was picked up by several media outlets in the Serbian capital of Belgrade, and then by major international news agencies and cable television news. The ensuing media frenzy lasted for days despite strong denials of the Serbian government, the Tuzla air base commander, and even Carla Del Ponte, who called for an urgent press conference on Wednesday to state that Mladic is still at large. Even on Friday, some Belgrade newspapers claimed, quoting unidentified security officials, that Mladic was arrested by British special forces in Romania and placed in confinement at a secret location...