High-profile chefs leading FiDi restaurant boom

Downtown’s booming FiDi neighborhood🌳 is gearing up for a battle of💮 “high”-profile restaurants.

൲As Danny Meyer works on plans for an eatery on the 60th floor of 2­8 Liberty St., the owners of 70 Pine St. are in heavy talks with former NoMad chef James Kent to head up a restaurant and lounge at the Art Deco tower, sources told The Post.

Kent, who just left The Nomad for an unstated “solo venture,🔯” would🌠 run a ground-floor eatery, plus a lounge complex on the landmark skyscraper’s 62-64th and 66th floors and outdoor terraces.

There’s no done deal yet at 70 Pine, the former AIG headquarter🌸s that Rose Associates converted to 644 luxury rental apartments — of which more than 60 percent are already rented. (Corcoran was just tapped to market 16 penthouse units.)

Highly regarded Kent is a prꦺotégé of Eleven Madison ꦛPark and NoMad chef Daniel Humm.

An earlier plan for Spotted Pig chef April Bloomfield and partn💫er Ken Friedman to run a food-and-drink complex atop 70 Pine St. fell apart last year.

Reps for Rose declined to comment and Kent couldn’t be rea🎉ched.

Meanwhile, Meyer has staඣrted planning his public eatery and catering space atop 28 Liberty St., the former Chase 🐈Plaza that’s now owned by China’s investment company Fosun, a few blocks from 70 Pine.

“The challenge will be to do a down-to-earth restaurant in an up-in-the-sky space,” Meyer told The Post. The open-to-all café is expected to have♍ about 100 seats.

The district south of Chamber Str♐eet is enjoying a🌺 boom in new restaurants, but none as yet has a high-floor view — with the exception of touristy OneDine at One World Trade Center.

The eat🎐eries at 28 Liberty and 70 Pine St. 🍸would be designed mainly for downtown’s 60,000-plus residents.

New restaurants in the neighborhood include Keith McNally’s Augustine, Tom Colicchio’s Fowler & Wells, Wolfgang Puck’s Cut and t✱he Bromberg Brothers’ Blue Ribbon Federal Grill. Gourmet markets are led by Le District at Brookfield Place and Eataly at 4 World Trade Center.

Nobu will open in a month or so at Broadway and Fulton Street. Also planned are places by Humm and his partners Wil♏l Guidara, Jean-Georges Vongerichten and David Ch꧟ang.