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FOODIE FLASHER
By LAURA ITALIANO
The New York PostaYsW
February 28, 2005.l.
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A noted Manhattan restaurateur who exposed himself to a camera-toting young woman while riding the subway ¡X only to face even more exposure when her picture of him wound up in newspapers and on the 'Net ¡X pleaded guilty to public lewdness yesterday.
"Yes, I did it," Dan Hoyt, 43, admitted, without emotion, in Manhattan Supreme Court after a judge asked him whether he had pulled out his genitals and "manipulated" them while riding an R train last August.
The hands-on chef ¡X owner of the raw-food eatery Quintessence ¡X will be sentenced to two years' probation on his next scheduled day in court, April 18. He must continue his once-a-week visits to a psychiatrist throughout his probation.
Hoyt ¡X who prosecutors believe flashed at least three other women during subway rides last year ¡X showed none of the cockiness of previous court appearances. Hoyt had smirked and sneered, "It's a misdemeanor," as he left his September arraignment ¡X bailed out by $5,000 from his ex-wife and business partner, Tolentin Chan.
But yesterday, Hoyt said through his lawyer that he felt remorse for his flashy fetish. It's the second time he's been caught with his pants down underground ¡X he was busted for the same thing in 1994.
"He realizes that he has some psychiatric issues that he has to deal with, and he's very remorseful," said his lawyer, Michael Bachner. "He is dealing very seriously with this, and knows it is something that can't happen again."
Hoyt risks a three-month prison sentence if he unzips and grips again.
The restaurateur's one-man show was shut down when one victim, Web designer Thao Nguyen, 23, decided to do something about it when Hoyt began staring at her and fondling himself as they rode an R train.
She pulled out her cellphone, snapped a picture and posted it on the Web sites Flickr and Craigslist ¡X asking if anyone knew who he was. The resulting publicity led to his arrest.
Hoyt owned two Quintessence restaurants at the time of his arrest last August, one on Amsterdam Avenue on the Upper West Side, which has since closed, and one that remains open on East 10th Street in the East Village, above which Hoyt lives.
And what's next for Hoyt? "He's been consulting here and there about raw-food menus, throughout the U.S. and in Japan," Bachner said.
"He's often in Japan, counteracting a lot of the bad, MacDonald's kind of restaurant fads that are going on there," the lawyer said..nZ?
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