Expansion Plans

[KatieLoeb]

Hi Mario,

Thanks for joining us at eGullet! You and/or you and partners have several very successful operations running in New York right now. Do you have any interest or plans to open branches of your restaurants in other cities? At the casinos in Atlantic City or Las Vegas? How about joining your New York city fellow chefs Alfred Portale or Marcus Samuelsson and making a break for Philly (on your own, not under someone else's auspices)? Alternatively, do you have any immediate plans for new and different restaurants/retail wine outlets in New York?

Thank you again for taking the time to participate with us. I know there's a large number of members of the eGullet community, myself included, that are very fond of your restaurants, cookbooks and television programs.

[Mario Batali]

we are talking to people in las vegas but have not nailed any hands to a cross yet we are planning on opening a classic italian joint on 10th ave at 16th st next spring it will be a little bigger than anything else and the chef will be mark ladner from lupa but no other plans elsewhere yet we are still very mom and pop in our development strategy mb