For lunch, Denis Weil chills out in the contemporary lounge he created. Reclining in a leather-backed Lipse chair designed by Wolfgang Mezger, he munches a southwestern chicken salad and sips a berry smoothie. The ambiance is foodie chic: hardwood floors,…
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Some of the city’s hottest chefs and restaurateurs are increasingly being targeted by lawsuits filed by a handful of attorneys on behalf of small numbers of employees. This week’s targets include Michael White and Chris Cannon’s restaurant group, which runs…
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Last Easter I attended my first pop-up restaurant, organised by two friends and colleagues, Joseph Trivelli and Stevie Parle, chefs from the River Café where I am a sommelier. In a boat club in Hammersmith, west London, they cooked an…
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Not much tickles the notoriously tough members of Community Board 3’s licensing committee. But the members seemed genuinely intrigued by a new dark dining French chain slated to come to their neck of the woods. Or maybe they were just…
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Just stay in. It’s not worth the doggy bag or the fortune cookie or the supersizing. On Saturday, Florida resident Paul Blankfield, displeased that his Olive Garden-dining neighbors included a noisy, autistic 4-year-old boy, vented his irritation by throttling the…
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Oatmeal at McDonald’s. Eggs at Quiznos. Breakfast sausage at Taco Bell. Why are quick service restaurants clamoring to create breakfast menus or enhancing their existing breakfast selections? A new study by Intellaprice sheds light on the recent popularity of the…
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On a balmy summer Sunday, Tim Scorer and his girlfriend Emma Jarvis welcome brunch guests to their spacious London flat. After greeting them, the couple direct their visitors to the garden — a stunning space outfitted with a wood-fired oven…
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“Very good, and for you, sir?” You is me and I just don’t know. “What I will have…obviously…is…. What I shall in fact have is the…the….” Now, this kind of dithering is very much not what I’m about. You can…
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Smartphones have made it simple to find a restaurant at the last minute. The gastronomic triumvirate of Urbanspoon, Yelp and OpenTable each have well-designed mobile apps for Android, BlackBerry and iPhone users, and they’re all free. For a reservation, though,…
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Something strange is happening on the London food scene. New dining locations are emerging in unlikely, out-of-the-way neighborhoods, where paying guests turn up to eat in someone’s private home. Elsewhere, established chefs are taking over a temporary dining venue to…
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In January, Ferran Adrià announced that at the end of the 2011 season he planned to close El Bulli, his mythic restaurant on Spain’s Costa Brava, with plans to reopen it two years later as a foundation, in which food…
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Fine diners are drinking premier cru wines at plonk prices as a bring-your-own booze revolution gathers pace in Britain’s best restaurants. Worried by empty tables as a result of the economic slump, a group of Michelin-starred establishments are letting customers…
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David Chang was asleep in his aisle seat on a recent flight to Melbourne when searing pain jolted him awake: a flight attendant had accidentally spilled boiling water on his arm. That the worst scalding of the Manhattan megachef’s life…
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Egon Ronay, the dapper Hungarian food critic who stamped his name indelibly on British culinary history, has died at the age of 94. Ronay died yesterday morning at his home near Yattendon, Berkshire, with his wife Barbara and two daughters…
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Union Street, the eight-block retail stretch in San Francisco’s Cow Hollow-Marina neighborhood, is undergoing a restaurant boom with six eateries slated to open in the next six months. Behind the surge: moves by local merchants to revive the area by…
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At David Burke Townhouse, the average bottle of red wine has crept back up over $100. At Delmonico’s, diners ordered nearly twice as many white truffles compared to last year’s season. And at Aldea, the new lobster gazpacho appetizer is…
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They are huge in the US, but few British diners have heard of Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG) or Ruby Tuesday (RT). But all this is about to change as the restaurant chains join Taco Bell in a three-pronged US attack…
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