Eater LA hears from multiple sources that the International Petroleum Investment Company — an Abu Dhabi-based investment fund that helped fund the Hakkasan restaurants — might be acquiring a 50% stake of San Diego's Enlightened Hospitality Group. This means that for $28M, IPIC would have a stake in the ever-growing empire of former The Taste judge Brian Malarkey. [Eater LA]
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