Todd English
Todd English (Olives) just can't get enough of New York City. Though the celebrity chef just opened The Libertine on Gold Street in September, we have it on good authority that he is already sniffing around town for another restaurant. Specifically, according to the chef himself, he and his team have been "scouting" 325 Bowery, the mercurial former Kelley and Peng space on the corner of 2nd Street and the Bowery. (In the time since Kelley and Peng finally gave up the ghost, the space has been the East Village Yacht Club, hosted NBC's upcoming reality show Chopping Block, been home to a never-opened Italian restaurant and been one of Target's Pop-up Bullseye Bodegas.) While we aren't holding our breath to see English's toque on the Bowery (we're still waiting for Daniel Boulud's burger joint), we thought it was noteworthy enough to mention.