China Club is worth joining
About four months ago we began noticing subtle changes at one of our favorite in-town restaurants, Mark Pi's China Gate in the West Park Shopping Center. The newly named China Club, now owned and operated by Chef Dan Lew of Paisley Park Gourmet Deli & Catering, is more upscale, inviting and familiar -- with a cosmopolitan interior that is not overwhelming -- the belief being that the customers are the decor. Dan, trained by Mark Pi himself, helped open this original...
GOOD TIME WAS HAD BY MOST AT CHINA CLUB
Isaura Garcia was having a simply faaaabulous time at the China Club. A black strapless gown squeezed her perfect body. Black, Darth Vader sunglasses shielded her eyes. Her right hand closed around a scotch on the rocks. She was immobile, but not unmoved."I think it's fabulous," she said, when we asked her to say a few words for the folks."And if the public can keep its positive thinking about making the world happy, it would be a...
True Grits: Stock Car Champ Takes China Club by Storm
There are few people in the United States who have less in common than Jeff Gordon, the champion stock car driver, and Sylvia Miles, the Manhattan actress and party fixture. But there they were on Dec. 3, breathing the same smoky air, at the new China Club just off Times Square. Mr. Gordon is a 26-year-old Winston Cup champion who is being touted as the Tiger Woods of auto racing (because of his youth and skill, not his skin color). He was in New York to promote the hell out of himself and his...