Celebrity Bars/Restaurants

	Moby TeaNY Moby has been selling teas and an assortment of tasteless vegan snacks with ex-girlfriend Kelly Tisdale since 2002.
	Pete Wentz Angels & Kings Wentz is a co-owner of this Alphabet City basement bar. He's also the guy responsible for the t-shirts on sale behind the counter.
	Bruce Willis Bowery Wine Company Willis isn't actually an investor in this bar/restaurant—he simply let co-owner Chris Sileo use his name in the promotional materials. But that hasn't stopped demonstrators from protesting against the venue's Republican-ification of the East Village.
	Gavin Degraw National Underground "I Don't Want to Be" a killjoy or anything, but don't come expecting much from this live-music venue that singer Gavin DeGraw and his brother Joey opened on the Lower East Side in 2007.
	Michael Jordan Michael Jordan's Steakhouse Yup, His Airness indeed owns a stake of his namesake steak place in Grand Central. His partner in the venture is Peter Glazier.
	Bono, Trent Reznor, Courtney Love, Jay-Z Spotted Pig Former record exec Ken Friedman roped in a long list of music industry acquaintances to start up this perennially-hot West Village "gastro-pub." Loyal customer Jay-Z both invested in the restaurant and purchased the building that houses it.
	Miwa Yoshida Sumile Sushi The lead singer of popular Japanese pop band Dreams Come True, Yoshida is a co-owner of this Village restaurant.
	Sebastian Junger The Half King There's a Perfect Storm of tasty bar food, literary types, and Monday readings by men and women of letters at author Sebastian Junger's West Chelsea pub.
	Robert De Niro Ago An L.A. import located inside De Niro's Greenwich Hotel in Tribeca, the Italian Ago was the victim of arguably the nastiest zero-star review ever issued by Times critic Frank Bruni.
	Robert De Niro Nobu De Niro first teamed up with Drew Nieporent and Nobu Matsuhisa in 1994 to open the Nobu flagship in Tribeca. He's now an investor in a handful of the other 17 Nobus around the world. (See also Ago.)
	Giuseppe Cipriani, Sting, Trudie Styler, Harvey Weinstein, Ben Silverman Socialista Armin Amiri's spot attempts to transport you to mid-century Havana, but the clientele makes it hard to imagine you're anywhere but square in the middle of a pack of obnoxious investment bankers.
	Andrew W.K. Santos' Party House Long-maned rocker Andrew W.K. spent three years planning this 8,000-square-foot club in SoHo.
	Rachel Weisz, Jude Law, Josh Lucas The Box Simon Hammerstein's opera house-esque Lower East Side venue has a celebrity-studded "board," although we suspect official board meetings don't take place all that often.
	Reggie Jackson The Original SoupMan The most successful spin-off of the Seinfeld franchise. Way more successful than The "Michael Richards Show," at least.
	Mikhail Baryshnikov, Robert DeNiro, Ed Harris, Bill Murray, Sean Penn, Lou Diamond Phillips, Russell Simmons, Christor Walken, Harvey Weinstein, Bob Weinstein Tribeca Grill Drew Nieporent's long-running eatery may have more celeb investors than any other in the city, even if the lineup betrays the year the restaurant opened: 1990.
	Whoopi Goldberg, Demi Moore, Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger Planet Hollywood Times Square The original celebrity theme-restaurant is still sating tourists' appetites with $18 hamburgers.
	Justin Timberlake Southern Hospitality Fried chicken, cornbread, and other south-of-the-Mason-Dixon-line staples brought to you by the most famous boy-bander to come out of Tennessee.
	Chris Noth The Cutting Room Chris Noth's long-running Flatiron nightspot has the velvet curtains, leather couches, and other louche touches you'd expect from Noth.
	Chris Noth, Damon Dash, Simon Rex, Jesse Bradford, David Wells, Joey McIntyre, Bo Dietl, Ann Dexter-Jones, Mark Wahlberg The Plumm Celebrity hanger-on Noel Ashman is famous for attaching famous names to his venues, although he faced a lawsuit when he suggested that Petra Nemcova was an investor. (She wasn't.)
	Jay-Z 40/40 Club 40/40 in Chelsea is only one of a growing chain of Jay-Z-owned bars. You can sample Armadale, the vodka brand he co-owns with Damon Dash, there.
	Tim Robbins The Back Room This Lower East Side bar tries to recreate the feel of the Prohibition era with its tin ceilings, alcohol served in teacups, and other period touches. Back in the day, you could have found Robbins in the VIP-only back room, although it's rumored he sold his share in the venue after a feud with his partners.
	Quentin Tarantino Do Hwa Myung Ja Kwak and daughter Jenny Kwak's spin-off of their popular East Village restaurant Dok Suni's, Do-Haw has been serving Korean fare 2000. Tarantino signed on after being a regular at Dok Suni's for years.
	Benjamin Bratt, Jill Hennesse Irving Mill This Gramercy Tavern knockoff is second-rate right down to its celebrity investors.
	Justin Timberlake Destino This is minority investor Justin Timberlake's attempt to bring $25 chicken cacciatore, along with sexy, back.
	Timothy Hutton PJ Clarke's An actor and ex of Debra Winger, Timothy Hutton became one of the owners of this Midtown East after-work institution a few years ago.
	Graydon Carter Waverly Inn Vanity Fair's editor holds court at the most self-important dining establishment in the city. His partners in the restaurant include Sean MacPherson and Eric Goode.
	Timbaland and DJ Clue Cherry Lounge You may occasionally spot a hip-hop star getting his groove on at this massive dance club in Harlem, which was opened by Timbaland and DJ Clue in 2004.
	Valerie Simpson and Nick Ashford Sugar Bar Caribbean food and live music are on the menu at this Upper West Side eatery/lounge owned by 70s singing/songwriting power couple Ashford & Simpson.

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