One of the last restaurants I visited was Gilt at the Palace Hotel. Originally, the plan was to visit with a reader (and chef!) but our schedules never worked out because our work schedules were so different. I ended up visiting with my mom right before Christmas – the courtyard is already really beautiful and […]
I was quite excited to visit Adour at the St. Regis hotel because it seemed like the restaurant was on the higher end of the one-star Michelin restaurants. A lot of critics of the Michelin review guides say that the reviewers just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to anything but French […]
When Darren and Hanaya came to visit New York, I made reservations at Matsugen for us. Darren and I are friends from our consulting days and Hanaya is his fiancée (we’ve met through emails and my blog, but never in person!) We were originally going to Jewel Bako (they wanted to help me on my […]
Since Cliff and I had an extra night of dining, I made reservations for L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon in the Four Seasons Hotel, one of my last restaurants to cross off the New York Michelin list. The restaurant is one large room with an open kitchen as its centerpiece; I requested seats at the kitchen […]
Last week, Cliff flew in from California to attend a conference at the Time Warner Center. Since he was visiting, we decided to make a reservation at wd-50, a molecular gastronomy restaurant run by Wylie Dufresne. I saved the restaurant for Cliff because we visited another molecular gastronomy restaurant together (we went to Alinea for […]
