Drew Nieporent Talks Tribeca Grill’s A-list Crowd in a New Memoir

You may not know his name, but you almost certainly know Drew Nieporent’s restaurants. The 70-year-old opened some of New York’s most celebrated dining rooms in the 1980s and ’90s: His first, Montrachet, earned a coveted three-star review from The New York Times soon after its debut in 1985. Nieporent would go on to partner with Robert De Niro and chef Nobu Matsuhisa to open Nobu, which has exploded from one location into a global network of restaurants, hotels, and branded…