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Article: THE MIDAS TOUCH; GLITTERING ON THE RUNWAY AND NOW, AT THE TABLE.(Gold, a restaurant venture by Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana)
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- WWD
- Article date:
- February 15, 2007
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Byline: Courtney Colavita
Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana's first restaurant venture, Gold, has all the requisite accoutrements one would expect from a designer bote.
Mirrored tabletops for the naturally narcissistic scenester? Check. Close to 400 kinds of Champagne to keep those models toasting well into the night? Check. Logoed floors, utensils and napkins? Check, check and check.
Yet, for all the glinting surfaces - or maybe despite them - the restaurant, open since October, delivers more than just gloss. Its Italian menu, at both the casual ground-floor bistro and the tony second-floor restaurant, is at once familiar and distinctive.
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