Hitting le Links
Most New Yorkers are surely familiar with Simon Oren’s Tour de France group of restaurants, including Nice Matin, Marseille, Le Monde and L’Express. You may not always notice them, but you know they’re...
View ArticleThe Kind of Trouble You Never Wanted
Careful readers of this space might know of our affinity for the poet Tony Hoagland, and his latest collection “Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty” has further stoked the flames of our...
View ArticleThe Wine World Names First-Ever 100-Point Butcher
At an annual Robert Parker-led fundraiser dinner last week — where the guest list could easily be mistaken for a Napa Valley-based wine list, such was the celebrity status of the evening’s attendees —...
View ArticleA Sortable Feast, Or, How To Make a Good Thing Better
Jonathan Gold has taught us many things, chief among them that LA is not the culinary wasteland we had always suspected. Well, not if you know what you’re doing and you have a good guide. A guide like,...
View Article‘The Greatest Restaurant in the World is Really a Small House’: Between the...
The clock above the kitchen door reads 10:30 a.m. The first wave of prep cooks — which have been here for more than five hours — are moving in accordance with Chef Thomas Keller’s simple reminder...
View ArticleA Quivering Heart
This Valentine’s Day don’t just tell your loved one they turn your heart to Jell-O — show them. Spread the bloody truth.
View ArticleWondering What the Staff at El Bulli Ate? [Video]
If you were wondering what the staff at El Bulli ate during family meal, well the answered in the video teaser for Ferran Adrià’s new book, The Family Meal. And the answer is basically the same odd...
View ArticleFeeding a Foie Gras Fancy
Kudos to Plate, a magazine for food professionals, for going on an all-out foie gras onslaught today, posting recipes for twists on the divisive delectable that range from wrapping it in jerky to...
View ArticleLove Me Tenderloin
America and Meat. The two go together like heart attacks and cholesterol. Clark Gable and misogyny. Mitt Romney and meh. And now there is an art project and forthcoming handsome coffee table book at...
View ArticleAvroKO To Open Napa Valley Restaurant
AvroKO, the New York-based design and concpeting house, has begun construction on its next owned and operated venture. But this one is far from from the bright lights of the big city (even further than...
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