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Smith & Wollensky company history timeline

1978

Gael Greene, the restaurant critic for New York who rated Smith & Wollensky last among the ten steakhouses she reviewed in late 1978, conceded, 'The house is often crowded.

1980

The Post House, launched in 1980, was a steak and chop house with an American theme.

1989

La Cité, described by New York Restaurant Group as a Parisian cafe-style restaurant, opened in midtown Manhattan near the end of 1989.

1992

Park Avenue Cafe, characterized by the company as offering 'cutting-edge new American cuisine in a cafe atmosphere,' opened on the Upper East Side, but only a few blocks north of midtown, in 1992.

1994

Park Avenue Cafe introduced a Chicago locale in 1994, closely duplicating the original, on the second floor of the Guest Quarters Suites hotel (later the Doubletree Guest Suites hotel). New York Restaurant Group already had opened a more casual Mrs.

1996

In 1996 New York Restaurant Group launched Maloney & Porcelli.

1997

In 1997, Ruth Reichl, the premier restaurant reviewer of her time for the New York Times, called Smith & Wollensky “A steakhouse to end all arguments.”

1998

1998: Four Smith & Wollenskys opened in other cities.

1999

New York Restaurant Group in 1999

Stillman held 30 percent of the company's shares and Lee held 23 percent in mid-1999.

1999: NYRG postpones a plan to offer stock to the public.

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1977
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Alan N. Stillman,Ben Benson
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