A tourist sits as the sole customer at a restaurant in San Marco Square in Venice, Italy. (Photographer: Francesca Volpi/Bloomberg)
(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- On March 20 the streams of customers grabbing takeout bags and cocktails made the spare, warehouse-style space of Barbuto feel more vibrant than anywhere else in locked-down New York City. Chef-owner Jonathan Waxman surveyed what should have been the resurrection of his sit-down restaurant, which closed in 2019 to reopen in early February in the Meatpacking District. When New York restaurants were ordered ...