Fanfair

Moveable Feast

January 1989 Sara Nolan
Fanfair
Moveable Feast
January 1989 Sara Nolan

Moveable Feast

Chanterelle, lower Manhattan's most uptown restaurant, has closed its Grand Street doors to reopen in Tribeca's Mercantile Exchange Building. The Victorian edifice, built for cheese and butter merchants in the late 1800s, was a home to the Dia Art Foundation's avant-garde exhibitions from 1977 until 1985. Now it will welcome Chanterelle's upscale diners, who in the past have been known to wait as long as six weeks for a chance to savor chef and co-owner David Waltuck's saucy French fare (wife Karen is his partner): there used to be only ten tables—now there'll be a whopping fifteen.

SARA NOLAN