Tag Archives: Restaurants

Congrats JBA Winners

By Emilia | Published: May 6, 2013

Cheer on all of the James Beard Foundation Award winners for 2013, via JBA.org.

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Are Tasting Menus the Way Toward “Art”?

By Michael Ruhlman | Published: February 26, 2013

 

Chefs at work at The Breslin. Photos by Donna Turner Ruhlman.

Cooks, Chefs, or Artists? Photos (at NYC's Breslin) by Donna Turner Ruhlman.

“I always say this to the young chefs and mean it: The customer is excited, he says you are an artist, but we are not, just craftspeople with a little talent. If the chef is an artist, he doesn’t succeed. Why? Because he is inspired today but not tomorrow. We cannot do that.” —Andre Soltner (quoted in Forbes, May 2012) Back in in the fall of 2008, nearly five years ago, I moderated a discussion between Tony Bourdain and Marco Pierre White (insofar as those two former chefs can be moderated at all). MPW railed against the multi-course tasting menu, and Bourdain reiterated it, while Grant Achatz, feeling personally attacked, fumed in ...

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Delicious Surprises

By Emilia | Published: December 10, 2012

Check out these 5 restaurants from around the world and their holiday surprises to the diner, via WSJ.

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Hurricane Sandy

By Emilia | Published: November 5, 2012

Some restaurants in NYC are open, feeding folks, and giving their funds back to charity, via Zagat Blog.

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Japanese Ramen

By Emilia | Published: September 24, 2012

Two well known Japanese chain restaurants open their doors in LA for the first time, via LA Times.

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