My source said it was a done deal. When I called Mortons for confirmation, the woman who answered the phone (ADD: Pamela Morton, who owns the restaurant with her twin brother, Hard Rock Cafe founder Harry Peter Morton?) said, "We don't know what's happening. We're trying to buy it. We're in limbo."
She hung up before I could get her name.
The story is, as they say, developing.
UPDATE: Things are tough all over, according to this article that ran in Saturday's Los Angeles Times. San Gennaro lost its lease in the newly hot Culver City. (It'll be replaced by "a more upscale, all-organic restaurant run by celebrity caterer Akasha Richmond.") And of course, Hollywood lost its Hamburger Hamlet last month; an H&M outlet will take its place.
it is peter morton not harry - harry owns the taco restaurant at the hard rock in vegas...he also owns a lock of lindsay lohan's hair.
Posted by: hungry in hollywood | March 12, 2007 at 09:30 PM
Geez. I thought "Peter," but wrote "Harry." Thanks.
Posted by: Dana Harris | March 12, 2007 at 09:57 PM
So if the Vanity Fair Oscar Party won't be held in Morton's it will be held in Taste of Nation
Posted by: Lisa Kravt | July 10, 2007 at 03:50 PM