Nello Balan

Nello May Be in Trouble for $47,221 Bill Story

Grub Street - New York Magazine's Food and Restaurant Blog (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009

Those recent wallet-busting lunch bills at Nello (Mikhail Prokhorov is said to have spent almost $19,000 and Jay-Z is said to have dropped $1,700 ) were small change compared to the $47,221 that Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich blew, according to a TMZ item that has now been removed. ("I'm not impressed. I'm happy," Nello Balan told the Post . "The only thing that...

Nyet to Nello!

Diner's journal by Frank Bruni (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009

Steve Cuozzo vents about the ridiculousness of Nello.

Botch Jobs: All last week obscenely overpriced UES...

Eater (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

All last week obscenely overpriced UES restaurant Nello made the news after it was reported that Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, and Jay-Z and Beyoncé all spent small fortunes dining there. Now, reps for Abramovich are reporting that...

Foreign Food on the Rise in China; NRN Goes Biweekly

Grub Street - New York Magazine's Food and Restaurant Blog (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009

• Foreign food is ultrapopular in China right now, with over 5,000 Western restaurants in Beijing alone. [ ABC News ] • Nation's Restaurant News will end its current weekly schedule and go biweekly next year. [ Food Writer's Diary ] • Padma Lakshmi will appear on 30 Rock on November 12. [ Eater National ] • Nello Balan is not impressed by the Russian billionaires...

Abramovich spends $47k on booze and food while pregnant Dasha Zhukova sips water

Baby Chums (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009

Roman Abramovich managed to spend $47k at a New York restaurant called Nello’s while his girlfriend Dasha Zhukova drank only water mineral water at $10 a bottle. The waiters were reported to be high-fiving each other in the kitchen, and rightly so, over the $7,000 service charge. Nello’s is one of the city’s premier Italian restaurants, [...] Source: Baby Chums

Listage: DeLucie Not Leaving Waverly Inn; A Thanksgiving Challenge

Eater (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009

The Wait for Brunch Outside Jane [Flickr Photo Pool/ food_in_mouth ] · Not All Meat Eaters Are to Blame for Climate Change [NYT] · John DeLucie Denies Rumors That He is Leaving Waverly Inn [NYP] · Boulud, Dufresne, and David Shea Given $150 Thanksgiving Challenge [NYM] · More on the Closure of UWS Mainstay Good Enough to Eat [City Room; previously ] · Nello Balan Not Impressed By Russians...

Roman Abramovich denies spending £29000 on lunch

The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009

Published: 9:47AM GMT 02 Nov 2009 Roman Abramovich: Mr Abramovich, 47, started his meal with white truffle carpaccio at £60, followed by veal Milanese and a side order of truffle tagliolini Photo: EPA The billionaire Chelsea Football Club owner was alleged to have racked up the impressive bill at Nello's Italian restaurant by drinking a selection of the finest champagnes and wines and dining...

• Abramovich spends $47k on booze and food while pregnant Dasha Zhukova sips water - Baby Chums

Susan Sarandon Will Not Do the Time Warp Again

Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009

Nello Balan is being sued by meat suppliers, fish suppliers, and Chopard for not paying up his food and jewel bills. Susan Sarandon refused to do her Rocky Horror "Time Warp" dance at the opening of Purgatorio. Autobiographer Andrew Morton claims Angelina Jolie slept with her mother's boyfriend when she was 16. Matthew Broderick flubbed his lines ten times during Act 1 of the...

Russian Billionaire Thirsts For Expensive Wine, Mediocre Basketball

Gothamist (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009

Mikhail Prokhorov What better to follow up a meeting with a handful of NBA owners when looking to purchase the 25th ranked New Jersey Nets and bring then into Brooklyn than a $19,000 lunch ? That’s right, nothing, which is why Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov stopped into Nello on the Upper East Side Wednesday with a few friends, the Post reported. Their check included $825 for three...

The Russian Is Coming...

EconomicPolicyJournal.com (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009

to the NBA.NyPo has the latest on Mikhail Prokhorov, who appears to be close to being cleared to buy the NBA's New Jersey Nets: Billionaire playboy Mikhail Prokhorov, who is close to buying the Nets, took a half-dozen comrades to Nello on the Upper East Side Wednesday afternoon, following a meeting with NBA owners.He concluded that they had hit it off so well, he'll have no trouble getting them...