Don't call Clyde Frazier's Wine and Dine a 'sports bar.' True, the New York City restaurant, designed by Morphosis Architects, comes with a foul-shooting basketball court at one end of the bar. And, true, the persona of the former Knicks guard Walt (Clyde) Frazier, who owns the eatery along with ARK Restaurants, permeates the place as the visual inspiration for its arresting interior. ARK's chairman and CEO Michael Weinstein didn't want the beery, greasy-burger, shouty, TV atmosphere endemic to a sports bar. The restaurant, at the base of a new residential tower on Tenth Avenue, emphasizes 'quality food' by acclaimed chef David Waltuck and is built around 'Clyde's style,' Weinstein notes. Frazier, now 67, famous in his day not only as an athlete, but as a flamboyant dresser, earned the nickname 'Clyde' after the natty protagonist of the 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde. Now an announcer for the Knicks at Madison Square Garden near his new restaurant, Frazier recently decided he was ready 'for being out meeting and greeting.'
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