Are you ready to experience the Queer Eye dining experience for yourself? During a cast panel at the 92nd Street Y, Antoni Porowski announced that he’s starting a fast-casual restaurant in New York City. “I’m all about, like, cheese and pork belly and decadence, and as a result of the increased vanity of being on camera all the time and working out and eating healthy, I’m developing a fast-casual food concept restaurant that I’m gonna be opening here in New York,†he said. Porowski said he wasn’t “supposed to talk about it,†but, duh, he couldn’t help himself! We’ll have a table for two, and another plate of grapefruit and avocado salad, please!
Update: Eater reports that Antoni’s fast-casual concept will rise like a phoenix from the ashes of the shuttered West Village diner Village Den. He’s working with Eric Marx and Lisle Richards of the hospitality group Metric to relaunch the decades-old restaurant with “an entirely new concept focused on ‘a wholesome yet fulfilling lifestyle.’†A lifestyle based on rolling up the sleeves on your many graphic tees!