Eating & Drinking: Friday Edition
• Daniel Boulud's DBGB debuts Monday. Grub Street has pics. [GS]
• Also opening on Monday: the least recession-friendly restaurant to come along in months. Have a look around SHO Shaun Hergatt at the Setai in the financial district. [Eater]
• Not opening Monday, but will be open soon: Hotel Griffou, which is in "celebrity-preview mode" right now. [GS]
• Six wine auction houses are offering big bargains later this month. [Reuters]
• Sienna Miller, Elle Macpherson, Sting, Woody Harrelson, Charlize Theron, and Alicia Silverstone are some of the celebs now lobbying Nobu boss Nobuyuki Matsuhisa to drop bluefin tuna from his menus. [Page Six]
• A look around the Jane Ballroom, which opens next week, is located in Sean MacPherson and Eric Goode's Jane Hotel, and will be overseen by Matt Kliegman and Carlos Quirarte, the guys behind The Smile. [BB]
• Danny Meyer may control a restaurant empire, but he'd really prefer it if you didn't describe it as an "empire." If you don't mind. [NYO]
• The Cipriani-supervised Rainbow Room dancing ends tonight. [Zagat]
• Someone should really inform designer Rachel Roy that "fennel tea with lemon" does not constitute breakfast. [GS]