Category Archives: Trio

TRIO: contenders in two fell swoops

Two recent moves by TRIO remind me of the overnight transformation of the Boston Celtics into contenders – sorry, the NBA is about to start and basketball is on my…

Upping the steaks: Ex-Alameda partner to open SALT on TRIO’s top floor

This story has been sleeping in the blog queue Rip Van Winkle style… Gaby Alves, former partner in award-winning Brazilian restaurant Alameda, plans to open a joint on the upper…

Trouble in Tongli II, The Cellar and the Cave

Renovations were apparently done with super speed as China Doll is open again (see Tongli in Trouble). They had just enough time to change some light bulbs and buy new bottle openers…

New cellar dweller at TRIO

TRIO opened in May of 2006 and included: a reincarnation of the city’s oldest non-hotel bar, Frank’s Place, at ground level; a seventy-seat New York grill and piano bar, Park…