Of the recent closings around New York, here are some that Zagat has confirmed:
Tuscan Square, Rockefeller Center's 10-year-old Italian, is saying its final ciaos. Its last day of business will be this Saturday.
In the outer boroughs, Park Slope lost its Seventh Avenue Mediterranean staple Laila's. Rouge, on 70th Road in Forest Hills, has met a similar fate.
Uptown, Harlem said goodbye to another BBQ joint: Oklahoma Smoke BBQ on West 145th Street. Carne on the Upper West Side is also gone, replaced by a restaurant called Toast. And over on the East Side, Haikara Grill on East 63rd is now a restaurant called Smokin' Q.
In Hell's Kitchen, Ninth Avenue's Xing and Pozzo Pastry Shop have both given up the ghost.
Meanwhile downtown, Greenwich Village Japanese Okinawa on Laguardia Place has been replaced by Five Guys; HQ on Thompson Street in SoHo is down for the count; and the Roadhouse on Murray Street has gotten a new name, A&M Roadhouse, and moved down the street into the space recently occupied by Murray Street Grill.
Finally, a few chain branches have recently shuttered including the West 23rd Street branch of Ben & Jerry's; the MacDougal Street branch of La Palette; and the West 47th Street branch of Raku-It's Japanese!