Article: Hot number: downtown's 10 Downing is trendy, but tasty.(FOOD)(West Branch)(Restaurant review)

IN RESTAURANT LAND, like everywhere else, there's a quirky, unfathomable quality to the wisdom of crowds. Some places never get off the ground, some take off after one good review, and some are popular the minute they open their doors. 10 Downing, which opened a couple of months ago in an angular corner space on lower Sixth Avenue, appears to be one of the lucky ones. Possibly it's the Euro-accented name, which also happens to be the restaurant's address. Or maybe it's the carefully contrived downtown vibe, which includes a Damien Hirst poster in the bathroom and lots of jumbled artifacts on the walls, among them a pair of entwined antlers and a lush landscape photo of ...

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