EXCLUSIVE: New owner for Hinschs
Hinschs is staying open.
Just two days before his targeted closing date of March 3, Roger Desmond, who took over the beloved Fifth Avenue eatery a little over a year ago with partners Gerard Bell and Bill Gardell, sold the 64-year-old neighborhood landmark to a new owner, Mike Moudatsos, an experienced restaurateur who runs five diners in Staten Island, all dubbed Mikes plus the original name of the eatery.
When we take over, we keep the name and add Mikes to it, explained Lee Moudatsos, who will be running the restaurant (he said that his family mother, father and five siblings — are all involved in the restaurants they own), and who told this paper that it will continue to serve up the homemade ice cream and chocolates for which it is famous, as well as egg creams and floats.