The Alexander

“Gandolfo’s is my new go-to spot,” says CityWay resident Zachary Lockett. “You feel like you’ve walked into a corner deli in New York.”

When the opportunity came to open a second space downtown off of The Alexander hotel’s south lobby, executive director Shauta Marsh saw the benefits immediately.

In a hotel with eye-popping art installations such as a flock of birds carved out of old LPs and a portrait of Madam Walker made from combs, the dishes at this restaurant are the real attraction.

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Customers will be able to feast on affordable breakfast-and-lunch fare daily, including the hearty Pot Roast Benedict.

A number of attendees, whether in homage to Pardo and his love of color or else seeing the evening as a chance to break away from typical Midwestern style, turned out in eye-catching styles.

The deadlines to garner tickets to the Nov. 1 events are at hand: Oct. 25 for the dinner and Oct. 30 for the artist’s talk and cocktail time. If you can’t make it, perhaps you’ll catch Pardo wandering through the Matisse exhibit at the IMA. He says he’s a fan.

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The English artist’s 16 pieces at the CityWay parking garages were commissioned with his finely-dressed alternate persona, “the Vandal,” letting him speak his mind through the character’s works, some of them elaborate pieces (called “burners” in graffiti-artist parlance).

Though the core list of spirits is limited at Plat 99, there is a sweet emphasis on boutique boozes and local hard liquors.