Danny Myers New Restaurant

To all my New York friends:

You heard it here first! Danny Myers new restaurant is opening in the newly renovated Gramercy Park Hotel and it has just been named Maialino, which means "little pig" or "suckling pig". The interesting story behind the name appeared in the media. One summer while Danny was in college he worked for his father's travel company in Rome, Italy as a tour guide. His Italian co-workers took to calling the boss's son "Meyerino" ("little Meyer"). Danny's favorite part of the job was to bring his tour groups to a different trattoria every night, where he'd unfailingly order "Maialino" (roast suckling pig) for dinner. His Italian co-workers noticed this and they took to calling him "Maialino" instead. Because Danny did not speak Italian he did not pick up on the subtle change immediately but eventually he did, and realized calling him "little pig" was a joke. On him. Now, many years and restaurants later, he gets a chance to revive that affectionate name.

In a recent interview with Time Out NY Danny was asked; "What's your goal for the new restaurant?" To which he responded; "We're trying to capture the soul of why people use restaurants in Rome. Gramercy Park, which this restaurant looks out onto, has a community formed around it-it's like its own tiny village within the city. That's not too dissimilar from the piazzas one finds in Rome, where the local trattoria is adopted by the community. So we want to create a trattoria for the Gramercy Park community."