Stephen Starr Is Taking Over New York Restaurants Lupa and Babbo | Eater NY
"Opened just a year later, in 1999, the sister restaurant was reviewed as a “$25 and under” restaurant by Eric Asimov. Like its companion property, it was affected by the fallout after 2017 when Batali sold his stakes, and it has only more recently been included in the new era ushered in by Stephen Starr’s takeover of the family’s Italian restaurants." - Melissa McCart
