Mr. LI Night Life returns with new venue

Brian Rosenberg, aka Mr. Long Island Night Life, is stepping out again after a few years day-to-day absence from "the scene," but he's going more tame these days.

Rosenberg, for 18 years director of the Garden City Hotel, where he ran the hotel's nightclubs, in a few weeks will be opening a place he's calling the Sugar Dining Den and Social Club in Carle Place.

Sugar, Rosenberg said, will be the kind of place where Carrie Bradshaw and her three girlfriends from "Sex and the City" might stop. There will be a dining room and an "upscale" lounge.

"But it's not a club," Rosenberg said. "It's more a gathering spot" with music and dancing.

The menu will consist of items served on small plates that can be shared, much like those used to serve food during a cocktail party at a wedding.

Rosenberg, who started a consulting business after leaving the Garden City Hotel, has partnered with Len Oliva and Joe DiGirolomo, owners of the Ciao Baby restaurant group, and entrepreneur Randy Narod, to open Sugar. "It's not going to be so much a sedate place," Rosenberg said. "The people can still dance on the couches if they want. But it has to be more sophisticated" than the nightclub scene.