Barry Wine
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Barry Wine is a former restaurateur and current restaurant consultant whose restaurant The Quilted Giraffe founded with his now ex-wife Susan was for the time it was open one of the most lauded eateries in the United States. The Quilted Giraffe was first opened in New Paltz, New York and moved to the borough of Manhattan in New York City in 1979. It was located first in the city on 50th street and then on 55th and Madison avenue in the Sony Building (then the AT&T Building) and was in operation for thirteen years. The run ended when Sony purchased the building and bought out the Wine's lease for what at the time the couple said was a "seven figure sum".
In the second stage of his restaurant career Wine is now a consultant. Perhaps his most prominent role was that of having been brought in by Tishman Speyer the overseers of Rockefeller Center to handle the transition of the now closed famed Rainbow Room high atop the GE Building which had been previously run by the Cipriani firm.