It’s part of a redevelopment of Grutman’s troubled project at a renovated art deco Firestone garage, which has seen three restaurants shut in a year.
A vastly expensive redevelopment of a classic Firestone tires garage has hit the skids, but Page Six hears that its owner thinks it might still turn the corner.
Miami mogul David Grutman — who has a string of successes in Miami nightlife, including the ever-popular LIV nightclub — seems to have finally got himself a lemon after he bought the Art Deco building for some $10 million and spent four years turning it into a complex with three restaurants. And then all three of them shut down within a year.
The trio of spots — an upscale version of a classic ’50s diner, Winker’s, a sweets store called Tooth Fairy and trendy Asian-fusion place Sushi Fly Chicken — opened in September and were immediately packed with Grutman’s many celebrity friends, including Pharrell, David and Victoria Beckham and Jonathan “Foodgod” Cheban.
But the one-time rubber emporium quickly began to look a little … tired. Winker’s and Tooth Fairy shut up shop less than 60 days later.Then Sushi Fly Chicken — which hosted birthday parties for both Victoria and her son Romeo — also closed recently, and Miami spies tell us all the storefronts are boarded up.
But insiders tell Page Six exclusively that they’re not actually boarded up — it’s just that there is once again construction going on behind screens because they’re moving Sushi Fly Chicken into the larger Winker’s space and turning the vacated SFC space into a bar fronted by the wildly popular Canadian-American bro-centric influencers the Nelk Boys, who have their own line of hard seltzers called Happy Dad.It’ll be the first time that the prank-happy group — which boasts a stunning 7.
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