Tonight the Tibet Fund throws itself a bash at Le Cirque—with the help of Eric Ripert. The chef of Le Bernardin (a venue that apparently was already booked!), and others like chef Laurent Manrique of Millesime and Jeremy McMillan, chef at friend-of-Tibet Richard Gere’s upstate eatery, are to cook five courses for guests. The whole Read More
The Michelin restaurant ratings are among some of the most coveted—and widely reviled—reviews in the entire world of restaurants and restaurant criticism. They loudly tout their “famously anonymous” team of critics and hardcore ratings standards. So why are they Tweeting about eating at Manhattan’s famous seafood mecca Le Bernardin last night when the restaurant’s been closed since August 1st for rennovations? Read More
“It’s all my friends and I talk about these days,” Marc Gross, a Harvard-educated American running one of Paris’s few vegan eateries, Bob’s Juice Bar, tells me. He’s talking, of course, about Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the I.M.F. chief and French presidential would-be accused of sexually assaulting a maid at the Sofitel Hotel in Midtown. It sounds Read More
There’s certainly anxiety in the air these days about the fate of high-end restaurants in New York City, but at City Harvest’s Big Against Hunger on Tuesday, Oct. 21, everyone at the Metropolitan Pavilion had their bravest faces on. Over 50 top restaurants rolled out spreads featuring their signature dishes, including confit of pork, foie Read More
Barça 18
One Star
225 Park Avenue South (at 18th Street)
212-533-2500
Dress: All sorts
Lighting: Low
Noise Level: High
Wine List: Mostly Spanish, around 150 bottles
Credit Cards: All major
Price Range: Main courses, $18 to $28
Lunch: Monday through Saturday, 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Sunday, Read More
Barça 18
One Star
225 Park Avenue South (at 18th Street)
212-533-2500
Dress: All sorts
Lighting: Low
Noise Level: High
Wine List: Mostly Spanish, around 150 bottles
Credit Cards: All major
Price Range: Main courses, $18 to $28
Lunch: Monday through Saturday, 11:30 a.m. to Read More
Le Bernardin chef Eric Ripert knew he was in for it shortly after John McEnroe walked onto the stage of the Ed Sullivan Theater. On Feb. 27, Mr. McEnroe stood in for the shingles-afflicted David Letterman on CBS’ Late Show, and as Mr. Ripert watched on a monitor in the Green Room, the former tennis Read More
Wednesday 23rd
Tully ho! Well, the world is now almost definitely going to hell -but we’re trying to be brave, calmly mulling cider and mulling over the social possibilities of autumn and whether we want to take advantage of them, or just crawl under a cashmere blanket and have another “crisis” …. Halloween doesn’t Read More
Midway through our meal at the restaurant Daniel–after the caviar and tiny rosettes of salmon tartar, after the rolled fillets of Portuguese sardines filled with sweet peppers, and after a few glasses of white and red Châteauneuf du Pape–I asked Jean-Louis Palladin what goes through his mind when he is in the kitchen.
Mr. Palladin–the Read More
