September 26, 2012, 10:40 am
The beloved post- (or pre-) MoMA PS1 and SculptureCenter Long Island City diner M. Wells will reopen tomorrow inside the former contemporary art institution, right on schedule and just in time for this year’s one-week-earlier New York Art Book Fair, which runs September 28-30 and is sure to give the staff of the new M. Wells Dinette a serious crash course.
Grub Street reports that after a gut renovation to the serviceable but mediocre former PS1 café, M. Wells creators Hugue Dufour and Sarah Obraitis, with the help of Keith Cappuccio, their Dinette partner, have prepped the space to be a full-service restaurant.
Their new hardware includes a kitchen sink from a hospital psych ward, a sushi display case that Dufour will use to grind the meat to make his horse steak tartare, elementary school-inspired tables and seating befitting PS1’s former function, and a 30-gallon braising pan that could boil an entire school of lobsters — “I’d say about 40,” Dufour guesstimates — at once.
M. Wells Dinette will be open during museum hours, noon-6pm Thursday-Monday, opening early at 10am on weekends.
— Benjamin Sutton
(Photo by Jackson Couse, via M. Wells/Facebook.)
Tags: Benjamin Sutton, Long Island City, M. Wells, MoMA PS1, New York Art Book Fair, Restaurant
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