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Grub Street - New York Magazine's Food and Restaurant Blog (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
It’s time to play Two for Eight. We just asked ten restaurants the best time they can squeeze a couple in for dinner; you need only make your chosen reservation. (As always, we make the calls but don’t guarantee the results.) Today: Gourmet French. Adour Alain Ducasse ( Menu ) 212-710-2277 Two for eight? Yes Allegretti ( Menu ) 212-206-0555 Two for eight? Yes Balthazar ( Menu ) 212-965-1414...
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Grub Street - New York Magazine's Food and Restaurant Blog (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
• College football is big business for New York bars, resulting in fierce competition to be the definitive bar for a given school. [ NYP ] • Rachael Ray gave Diddy a diamond cuff for his birthday. [ NYP ] • As fast food becomes more acceptable in France, chefs like Paul Bocuse and Alain Ducasse are offering up their own interpretations on the genre. [ WSJ ] • Mark Sargeant, Gordon...
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Schiller Wine (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
I have checked out 4 wine bars in Manhattan: Bar Boulud, The Ten Bells, Terroir, and Clo. Bar Boulud Bar Boulud is Daniel Boulud’s wine bar and bistro located across from Manhattan’s Lincoln Center. Daniel Boulud is a star and plays almost in the same league at for example as Alain Ducasse He is a chef, owns now a little restaurant imperium across the globe and just got his third star...
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Surviving the Recession (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
The Dorchester is one of the most desirable places in the world to stay. Located in the heart of Mayfair on Park Lane, guests can choose from 250 individually designed rooms and suites in a classic English style. The award winning restaurants and bars at The Dorchester are run by London's best and most welcoming teams, enjoy delicious afternoon tea in The Promenade, the best of homegrown British cuisine...
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Grub Street - New York Magazine's Food and Restaurant Blog (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
It’s 4 p.m., and that means it's time to play Two for Eight. We just asked ten restaurants the best time they can squeeze a couple in for dinner; you need only make your chosen reservation. (As always, we make the calls but don’t guarantee the results.) Today: Certified Geniuses. Adour Alain Ducasse ( Menu ) 212-710-2277 Two for eight? No Best available: 9:45 p.m. Anthos ( Menu ) 212-582-6900...
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Grub Street - New York Magazine's Food and Restaurant Blog (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
• The Center for Science in the Public Interest has found that a medium popcorn and soda at some movie theater chains has as many calories as three burgers from McDonald's. [ Reuters ] • New data suggests that 43 percent of Americans will be obese by 2018. [ NYDN ] • Soldiers in the Moldovan army are eating extra onions and garlic to ward off swine flu. [ NYT ] • Police shut down...
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Grub Street - New York Magazine's Food and Restaurant Blog (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
It’s time to play Two for Eight. We just asked ten restaurants the best time they can squeeze a couple in for dinner; you need only make your chosen reservation. (As always, we make the calls but don’t guarantee the results.) Today: Gourmet French. Adour Alain Ducasse ( Menu ) 212-710-2277 Two for eight? No Best available: 9 p.m. Allegretti ( Menu ) 212-206-0555 Two for eight? Yes Balthazar...
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COOL HUNTING (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
A lesson on 100 of the most adept contemporary chefs from around the world and the food they prepare, Phaidon's new book "Coco:10 World Leading Masters Choose 100 Contemporary Chefs" assembles an in-depth list of who's who, affirmed by 10 renowned culinary luminaries such as Alain Ducasse, Ferran Adrià, Gordon Ramsay and Mario Batali. Beginning with chef Hugh Acheson of Five &...
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kottke (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
For the first time ever, a Michelin Guide reviewer knowingly sits down to a meal with a journalist, New Yorker writer John Colapinto. The resulting article is pretty interesting; here's my favorite bit: Le Bernardin was one of only four restaurants in New York (along with Jean Georges, Thomas Keller's Per Se, and the now defunct Alain Ducasse at the Essex House) that earned three stars in the début...
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Grub Street - New York Magazine's Food and Restaurant Blog (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
from Grub Street Los Angeles Bouchon Chef de Cuisine Rory Herrmann Bouchon Bistro Beverly Hills' chef de cuisine Rory Herrmann was raised in the Midwest and made his name cooking in New York, but like his boss Thomas Keller, he has Southern Californian roots of his own. Hermann is ecstatic to be back in the city he spent his childhood summers in, especially having spent the last year training at Bouchon...
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Grub Street - New York Magazine's Food and Restaurant Blog (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
As you might have heard by now, Danny Meyer’s Mailalino opened last night, and Jazz in Strange Places was there to eat up what she says was “the most flavorful veal i've ever had the pleasure of meeting.” Also there last night, according to Jazz, was Dana Cowin, Ruth Reichl, and Anna Wintour. Reichl approved of her meal , judging by her tweet: “Woke up thinking about Maialino...
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Grub Street - New York Magazine's Food and Restaurant Blog (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
It’s 4 p.m., and that means it's time to play Two for Eight. We just asked ten restaurants the best time they can squeeze a couple in for dinner; you need only make your chosen reservation. (As always, we make the calls but don’t guarantee the results.) Today: Certified Geniuses. Adour Alain Ducasse ( Menu ) 212-710-2277 Two for eight? No Best available: 9:15 p.m. Anthos ( Menu ) 212-582-6900...
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Essex Eating (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Regular readers of my blog will know that I love a good cookbook. My shelves sag under their collective weight but still, like every addict; it's never enough I want 'more' and 'better'. Which is where my latest acquisition comes in, because it certainly fulfils both requirements. COCO is a beautiful, weighty, glossy, large and rather sleek book. It is the first of it's kind, in as much that it is...
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Beattie's Book Blog (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
COOK THE BOOKS - an invitation Cook the Books is delighted to be hosting an evening with Anna on Wednesday 11 November from 6pm. We will be serving canapes selected by Anna -matched with wine. And Anna will be sharing her thoughts on Coco, The Modern Pantry & anything else gastronomic we feel like chatting about. If you would like to join us on the 11th please reply, address details below, - reservations...
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Grub Street - New York Magazine's Food and Restaurant Blog (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
It’s time to play Two for Eight. We just asked ten restaurants the best time they can squeeze a couple in for dinner; you need only make your chosen reservation. (As always, we make the calls but don’t guarantee the results.) Today: Gourmet French. Adour Alain Ducasse ( Menu ) 212-710-2277 Two for eight? Yes Allegretti ( Menu ) 212-206-0555 Two for eight? Yes Balthazar ( Menu ) 212-965-1414...
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