Craft will host Vanity Fair's 2008 Oscar party

If further confirmation was needed of Craft's just-add-water supremacy in LA's power-dining universe, the restaurant has been annointed as the new home for the Vanity Fair Oscar party. Variety's own Bill Higgins got the scoop.

As The Knife reported last spring, longtime VF party house Mortons lost its lease; at the end of this year, it will become the LA outpost of "private dining club" Soho House. And, because Soho House owner Nick Jones is tight with VF editor Graydon Carter, it seemed the traditional location would continue. Said Jones to the Los Angeles Times in May, "We've always maintained strong links with Vanity Fair and conversations are ongoing."

Nope. We hear that Carter took the opportunity to sniff out a half-dozen locations before landing on Tom Colicchio's roost. Or, as Carter puts it:

“When Mortons announced they were closing, we thought it was time for a change... Craft is the ideal place for the party: great food — which we will not be serving family-style, by the way — great location with a dramatic entrance and a big, sweeping space.”

Vanity Fair party changing locations [Variety]