{"id":11471,"date":"2025-10-19T22:10:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T22:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/11471\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T22:10:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T22:10:04","slug":"celebrity-chef-geoffrey-zakarian-to-open-new-restaurant-at-the-central-in-downtown-st-pete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/11471\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrity Chef Geoffrey Zakarian to open new restaurant at The Central in downtown St. Pete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Zakarian, who has garnered fame through Food Network shows Chopped and the Emmy-nominated The Kitchen, in addition to being an Iron Chef on Iron Chef America, will also manage all food, beverage, and hospitality services through his company, Zakarian Hospitality, for Halcyon, the project\u2019s office tower.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Halcyon will be 11-story office building connected to the Central Hotel offering 125,000 square feet of Class A office space. In July, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ark-invest.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ARK Invest,<\/a> a leading global investment firm known for its focus on disruptive innovation, <a href=\"https:\/\/stpeterising.com\/home\/cathie-woods-ark-invest-to-move-headquarters-to-edge-district-in-downtown-st-pete\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced it would relocate<\/a> to the Halcyon office building. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Zakarian Hospitality will also manage all food &amp; beverage operations at the Central Hotel including a planned rooftop pool bar and jazz lounge, banquets, catering, and curated culinary experiences designed for hotel guests and office tenants. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Casey Ellison, CEO of Ellison Development, called Zakarian\u2019s involvement a defining moment for The Central\u2019s vision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zakarian, who has garnered fame through Food Network shows Chopped and the Emmy-nominated The Kitchen, in addition to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-11471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}