http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2008-10-11T00:09:44Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Susur%20Lee http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/4/2/115342/4704 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/susurlee.jpg" class="imgborder"><p>More news on the Thompson Hotel front. The <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Allen+Street-Thompson+LES/local/31"><b>Thompson LES Hotel</b></a> will get a Pan-Asian restaurant from Susur Lee, considered Toronto's Rock Star Chef for his namesake restaurant, Susur.<p>And the Thompson Hotel peeps must be paying him good. Lee is closing down his fancy Toronto shop to move to NYC and open a restaurant inside Thompson LES. (His casual restaurant, Lee, will remain.) Here's what Lee and the <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/todays_paper/story.html?id=415173">National Post</a> had to say about the project: <blockquote><p>"Jason Pomeranc is great," he tells me, referring to the cool-dude hotel warrior who is considered by many as the "next Ian Schrager," and the one behind this up-and-coming crash pad. Called the "thinking person's sex symbol" by Vanity Fair juliana 2008-04-02T11:54:22-05:00 40.722435 -73.988694 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/