Albany again part of Ric Orlando's world

January 5, 8:11 PMUpstate NY Restaurant ExaminerBill Dowd

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ALBANY, NY -- Chalk up yet another big-name chef heading for the state capital.

Close on the heels of the announcement that Certified Master Chef Dale Miller will be back in town with a brand-new restaurant after a brief fling in Lake George comes word that Ric Orlando (right), who helped put Justin's on the map in the early '90s, is coming up from the Woodstock area.

He'll be heading up an 80-seat spot called New World Bistro Bar at 300 Delaware Avenue, not so coincidentally near the Spectrum 8 Theatre. The co-owners of the news restaurant are Scott Meyer and Annette Nanes, who own the movie house.

Orlando has  been at the New World Home Cooking Co. restaurant and catering operation in Saugerties since 1993, but has kept up his Capital Region image by working various charity events and making occasional TV appearances.

“We really try to be unpretentious with our food,” Orlando told Times Union restaurant columnist Steve Barnes.

“I hate to sound jaded, because I’m anything but — I’m still beyond enthusiastic about cooking, but, I’ve really had enough of the overmanipulation of food, all the squeezing and forming and doing things to it and putting tons of ingredients on the plate just to do it. I’m really about good, honest global food at an affordable price.”