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And it is "a match for anything on the Bund"! No surprise there. But wait, there's more. Spago "has already become a popular lunch spot with pasta, Western, pizza and Asian sets for ¥19, 29 and 39" and is perfect for "fashionistas on a shoe-string." What? Huh?
Nowhere in its four-star review of new Shanghai restaurant Spago (595 Nanjing Xi Lu, 南京西路595号, Tel: 6271-3777) does City Weekend mention that "this versatile new space" maybe, just maybe, totally stole its name from what Frommer's calls "one of the best-known restaurants in the United States."
The grilled lamb chop with cous cous sounds good, but if we were Shanghai's "Spago," we might be expecting a call from Wolfgang Puck's people.
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Is it new? I remember walking down Nanjing Xi Lu seeing a sign for it when I first arrived here and thinking
"Hey look, they even have fake restaurants!"
For more direction on how Wolfgang Puck and his right hand man, Tom Kaplan, run the restaurant business for the Wolfgang Puck Fine Dining Group, check out this interview of Tom Kaplan by two Stanford business school students for iinnovate at iinnovate.blogspot.com
Min, on behalf of the iinnovate team.
Copy or not, it can't suck harder than Spago in Tokyo. The whole concept and food is just stale.
OK, OK, enough about seeing this post in my Bloglines! I see it every day!