What It’s Like to Close One of NY's Favorite Restaurants

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4.4 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Matt Danzer and Ann Redding had to shut down Uncle Boons at the start of the pandemic; now they're figuring out how to best set up their other restaurants for success. Follow Uncle Boons Sister and Thai Diner for more info. Get in touch: Amanda Kludt (@kludt), Editor in Chief, Eater Daniel Geneen (@danielgeneen), Producer, Eater [email protected] More to explore: Check out more great reporting from the Eater newsroom. Subscribe to Amanda’s weekly newsletter here. Follow Us: Eater.com Facebok.com/Eater YouTube.com/Eater @eater on Twitter and Instagram About Eater: Eater obsessively covers the world through the lens of food, telling stories via audio, television, digital video, and publications in 24 cities across the US and UK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Once upon a time, Disney was a motion picture studio in a sea of Hollywood studios doing something nobody else was doing.
0:09.0	Disney's business is memory making. Disney's business is tradition.
0:15.0	But here's the thing about kingdoms.
0:17.0	They don't last forever.
0:18.0	To survive, Disney had to grow.
0:21.0	But has that tremendous growth eroded what made Disney, Disney.
0:24.3	And I don't know the world cares that this is a Disney movie anymore. I'm Joe
0:29.6	Italian. I'm hosting Land of the Giants, the Disney Telepa, from Bulcher on the Box Media Podcast Network.
0:35.0	Follow Land of the Giants wherever you listen to hear new episodes every Wednesday. Hi everyone and welcome to Eder's Digest to show about all things food and dining.
0:52.2	I'm Amanda Clute editor and chief of and dining. I'm Amanda Clue,
0:53.0	editor and chief of Eater. I'm Daniel Janine, a producer at Eater.
0:57.1	Dan, what do we have going on the show this week?
0:59.1	Yeah, man, this week we're bringing on Matt Danzer and Anne Redding,
1:02.2	the restaurant team behind Uncle Boone's
1:05.8	uncle Boone's sister and Thai diner three of New York's favorite you know Thai
1:10.6	restaurants I think an aspect of their story that's particularly
1:13.0	interesting is they have these three properties that have kind of each been
1:16.1	affected by the pandemic in in different ways. Uncle Boone's is you know probably their
1:21.6	most famous restaurant.
1:23.2	It closed at the start of the pandemic
1:25.4	because of an inflexible landlord.
1:27.4	And Uncle Boone's was like one of the most
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