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Mario Batali’s Former Empire Is Thriving—as Long as He Stays Away
The chief’s onetime partners are jazzed to finally move on without him. There’s just one problem.
28 Apr 2019, 03:32 AM IST
(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- On a recent Friday night, the scene at Babbo, the downtown New York restaurant, seems much like one that’s played out on countless weekends since chef Mario Batali and his partner, Joe Bastianich, opened it in the summer of 1998. The place throbs with a high-volume soundtrack of 1970s rock stalwarts like Heart and Aerosmith. A line of customers wait for seats, peering hopefully into the main dining area, w...
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