Straker's Is the Latest NYC Dining Room With an English Accent

What BBN said about it

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorA viral London chef has opened his first restaurant outside Britain, in the old Lucky Strike space in Soho, the New York Times reports.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorFolks, I have questions, and the first one is butter.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorPoint one. The chef says his company recently shipped one hundred tons of British butter to New Jersey. One hundred tons. Across an ocean.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorTo New Jersey.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorAmerica has butter. We have cows, we have a dairy aisle, we have a stick of it in every fridge in the country.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSomebody looked at all that and said, no, it needs a passport.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorPoint two. The build was reportedly twelve months late and about two million dollars over budget, according to the chef himself.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSo the butter showed up on time and the kitchen did not.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorAirmail puts the total at four million dollars.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThat's a lot of money to open a place where the main ingredient is something you can buy at a gas station.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorPoint three. Airmail also reports he's in a public spat with Keith McNally, who ran the Lucky Strike diner that used to be there.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorA man who calls himself the Butter King, fighting over a diner.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorAnd he has six million followers. Six million people watched somebody cook with butter, and not one of them said, maybe that's enough butter.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThat's what gets me.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorHe says he'll do everything in his power to make it a success. Everything. He's already done the butter, the budget and the feud.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorI don't know what's left, besides the food.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorOne hundred tons of butter, folks, and the man still couldn't get the schedule to stick.