The Tao Group Goes Italian at the Moxy Hotel in New York

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Tao Group made its name in the restaurant world by offering cavernous, gleaming palaces with loud music and very decent miso-glazed sea bass satay. You could eat within sight of a giant Buddha in cities like New York, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles. The group is almost as well-known for its Lavo restaurants, featuring southern Italian specialties—including the signature 1-pound meatball—and nightclubs, such as the long-running New York staples Avenue and Marquee. At Tao’s newest restaurant, Feroce, in the Moxy Chelsea hotel, the group is again doing Italian, but in a dramatically different way.