Inside the Spotted Pig’s ruinous, disgraceful legacy beyond sex scandals
The Spotted Pig was swine from the day it opened in the winter of 2004. Never mind its ridiculously inflated, pre-scandal reputation (chef April Bloomfield’s astronomically, interplanetarily great hamburger!). The West Village gastropub, which shuttered last week, was where many of New York’s most obnoxious restaurant trends began — or, at least, were refined to...