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Also posted in american regional cuisine, Article, chefs, Food Adventure, Food Culture, New Media, Travel, Video Tagged Food Coma TV, food culture, Joe Ricchio, Joel Beauchamp, Maine, short film, video 3 Comments
Mainlining
A couple weeks ago Tuesday, I was lucky enough to score an early rez at the restaurant Animal, the much-hyped LA restaurant run by chefs Vinny Dotolo and Jon Shook (Vinny's the bushy one, photo courtesy of Animal). A few weeks earlier, in town for a gig at the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (bet you didn’t know I played the cello!), a friend took me to their second restaurant Son of a Gun. I told this friend I loved it and that it reminded me of The Greenhouse Tavern, because it did the same kind of food. (Only of course it didn’t really--Greenhouse doesn't sell alligator schnitzel!--so what did I mean? Fabulous dish, that schnitzel.)
It wasn’t till I ate at Animal with my friend the writer Dan Voll and our ...
Also posted in chefs, Food Adventure, Travel Tagged Animal, Jon Shook, Jonathon Sawyer, Son of a Gun, The Greenhouse Tavern, Two Dudes and a Pan, Vinegar, Vinny Dotolo 85 Comments
Salon Service at Per Se
I hadn't planned this post but when my wife, Donna, started emailing these iPhone shots of the dishes she was served at per se yesterday at lunch I just had to put them up. First of all, Thomas Keller and his ace staff two years ago began offering dishes a la carte in their salon area, outside the dining room. It's a fabulous way to taste what the per se chefs, led now by CDC Eli Kaimeh, are up to. (It's no wonder that Sam Sifton, in his final column as restaurant critic for The New York Times, called it the best restaurant in New York City.) Chef Kaimeh did not work lunch yesterday; in his stead was Chef David Breeden. I once complimented Deborah ...
Also posted in american regional cuisine, Appetizers, chefs, Food Adventure Tagged Donna Turner Ruhlman, food photos, New York City, per se, thomas keller 99 Comments
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