By Foster Kamer 1/09/12 2:46pm

FINE DINING?

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Deleted Scenes from Per Se, New York City’s Nicest Restaurant: Bathroom Sex, a “Puke-And-Rally,” Etc

This week’s New York Magazine is a series of “Workplace Confidential” essays, which include a former Lehman Brothers banker who thinks “nobody is making that much money” on Wall Street, a Page Six reporter shilling for News Corp on the DL, a firefighter who thinks anyone with post-traumatic stress disorder should “fucking get over it,” a Hollywood agent who explains that “the abject lying is crazy” in his business, and other testimonials from people saying things we already knew they thought. Read More

By Moira Hodgson 1/20/09 8:48pm

What I Ate On Mars

The waiter stood over me, pen at the ready. “Signorina?”

For lunch I ordered sardines on toast, pickled herring, a grilled mutton chop, buttered green beans, pommes lyonnaise and lemon sherbert.

I was 12, sitting with my family in the dining room of Lloyd Triestino’s S.S. Victoria Read More

By Joe Pompeo 11/25/08 5:16pm

Vegetables Are the New Meat!

Glenn Bunger, a 38-year-old teacher from Manhattan, was driving in rural Pennsylvania last month when he saw a roadside farm. Screech! Mr. Bunger had been seeking a plump pumpkin into which he could carve the Barack Obama sunrise logo, but as he perused the crates of fresh produce, something more impressive caught his eye: an Read More

By David Foxley 11/07/07 7:42pm

Thomas Keller: It’s Tough Out There For a Celebrity Chef

Last night, Thomas Keller, the chef and owner of impossible-to-penetrate gastronomical temples like Napa’s French Laundry and New York’s Per Se, said he finds the recent celebrity-chef trend rather capricious.

“I think today it’s certainly created some challenges for some of the younger chefs that really want to be celebrity chefs. Read More

By Natalie Danford 10/16/07 5:03pm

A Per Se Waiter’s Memoir: No Blood on the Plate

SERVICE INCLUDED: FOUR-STAR SECRETS OF AN EAVESDROPPING WAITER
By Phoebe Damrosch
Morrow, 228 pages, $24.95

Phoebe Damrosch (or her publisher) tries to serve her cake and eat it too by positioning Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter as a devil-wears-a-toque memoir about working in the dining room at Thomas Keller’s Per Read More