Chef Andrew Carmellini is set to bring gourmet to concession stands in Madison Square Garden (after its reopening in October.) With restaurants like the Dutch and the Locanda Verde on his CV, the upscale food he will bring to Madison Square Garden, in all of their concession stand glory, is sure to wow.

After being closed for 20 weeks, Madison Square Garden is about to unveil its new upgraded carte du jour (with five new gourmet concession stands to start) as part of a six-year, $850 million refurbishment.

On Wednesday night, at WP24’s lounge atop the Ritz-Carlton downtown, Tim and Nina Zagat threw a cocktail party for a select group of chefs and industry vets to celebrate the release of Zagat’s Los Angeles/SoCal 2012 restaurant guide and pass out awards for the LA winners.

A foreclosure lawsuit over a site on Miami’s wealthy Fisher Island was withdrawn after a foreign corporation purchased the $32.5 million mortgage just in time.

Argentina President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner hit the town after a Parisian shopping spree, during which she reportedly bought 20 pairs of Louboutins at $5,500 a pair.

According to the new Zagat San Francisco Bay Area Restaurants Guide, San Franciscans are the Country’s worst tippers. If the title posited by Zagat is true, Bay Area diners have the proud distinction of being the worst tippers.

A vintage Mercedes-Benz 280-SL owned by actor John Travolta was stolen on a residential street in Santa Monica on Sunday afternoon, the Los Angeles Times reports. The car is estimated to be worth between $35,000 and $100,000.

The incident reportedly happened around 3:30 p.m. near the 1400 block of Berkeley Street.

The 75th-floor Time Warner Center condo belonging to Steven Feder — once head of the Psychic Readers Network — has just reappeared on the market for $60 million, or $13,698 per square foot, to be exact. The new listing by Sotheby’s International Realty agents Brenda Powers and Elizabeth Sample, formerly of Brown Harris Stevens, is just the latest in a string of attempts by the owner to unload the property.

Jay was seen with wife, Beyonce, at the US Open last week, sporting one of only 50 production RM027 Rafa Nadal tourbillons. The power couple was watching none other than, Rafa Nadal, the watch’s namesake, play against Novak Djokovic in the championship.

Haute Living previously reported that Hotelier and nightclub afficianado, Andre Balazs had applied for a liquor license transfer to the Hotel.

Now it seems, Balazs’ newly acquired Cooper Square Hotel indeed received that initial approval Monday to transfer its liquor licenses from the previous owner.