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Upscale White Plains restaurant quietly closes

July 9, 3:08 PMUpstate NY Restaurant ExaminerBill Dowd
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   Inside the short-lived Via Quadronno

WHITE PLAINS, NY -- Via Quadronno, the upscale restaurant operating on the ground floor of the Bar Building for less than a year, closed over the weekend.

Developer Louis Cappelli said he had opened it in an effort to make Main Street more appealing to his Ritz-Carlton clientele. However, it never drew the necessary critical mass of patrons to achieve financial balance.

This is the latest reversal for Cappelli. In 2008, he announced a restaurant patterned after Manhattan's famous Nobu, to be part of a building he was erecting besides his Ritz towers. However, construction was halted several months after it began.

As Keith Eddings reported on the LoHud.com blogging site:

 "Cappelli envisioned even more for White Plains beyond the four residential skyscrapers he built downtown, where his vision had become focused on the Ritz. He made plans to move his corporate offices from Valhalla to one of the Ritz towers, predicted its penthouses would fetch $10 million, shopped for a golf course to serve its residents, parked a Rolls-Royce and a Bentley outside the front door that were on call for residents, opened three restaurants on the surrounding block and built the shell of what was to be the fourth.

"The Rolls and the Bentley have been returned to the dealership. Plans to buy the golf course memberships were canceled, as were plans to move Cappelli Enterprises to the Ritz. Sales in the second tower have lagged. The restaurants have struggled, climaxed by Via Quadronno's demise."

 

 

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