It's Not You, It's Me; Sometimes Restaurants Need Breaks Too
Tuesday, August 28, 2012 at 10:11AM 
Every now and then restaurants take a break so owners and employees can keep their sanity. Despite landing on Bon Appetit's Best New Restaurants of 2012, Battersby in Brooklyn is on vacation this week. They shut things down on Sunday and will be back to 255 Smith Street Tuesday the 4th.
Sometimes restaurants close so they can undergo renovations, as we just saw last week with Pok Pok Wing. Andy Ricker shut things down for the week of August 19th and opened Pok Pok Phat Thai in the former Pok Pok Wing space.
The Frank's got in on the morph movement back in March. They shut down Frankies 17 on the Lower East Side and turned the once Italian place into a Basque restaurant called Francesca.
Signs up outside the Lower East Side 'inoteca reveal this week's renovating restaurant. Jason Denton's 98 Rivington Street restaurant closed yesterday and will reopen Saturday with a reworked menu.