The popular Cuban restaurant Floridita will reopen in a new location after having closed last April, the University said Monday.
Owner Ramon Diaz “has signed a new lease for an attractive relocation space on 125th Street,” University spokeswoman Victoria Benitez wrote in an email Monday afternoon. She did not specify the exact location or the date the lease was signed.
“I should have some better information on how I’m going to proceed by the end of the week,” Diaz told Spectator in an email.
Diaz has spent more than two years in off-and-on negotiations with Columbia over his longtime premises on 125th Street and Broadway. The University owns those buildings, which are part of the Manhattanville campus expansion plan. Columbia closed Floridita in April, citing emergency kitchen repairs. At the time, Benitez said the closure would be temporary and that a relocation deal was in the works.
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