Times’ New Food Critic Biff Grimes Says One Star Really Means ‘Good’
New York Times restaurant critic William (Biff) Grimes has an opinion about praise. “Praise, when it’s doled out indiscriminately, is
View ArticleThe Same Chili, Sashimi And Sushi Wonders-Next Door
The wonderful Nobu, one of my favorite restaurants, is also notoriously difficult to get into at the normal dinner hour.
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Dylan Prime caters largely to young office workers from Wall Street with their feet on the first rung of the
View ArticleRestaurant Giant Drew Nieporent Lived to Eat, Now He Eats to Live
On the last Thursday of August, restaurateur Drew Nieporent sat at a lone table outside TriBakery, one of 16 restaurants–including
View ArticleTribeca Original Montrachet Saves Seriousness for the Food
It’s a shock to walk down West Broadway in Tribeca at night. The empty sky where the Twin Towers used
View ArticleTakin’ Care of Business
“I was kind of disappointed I didn’t bring my opium pipe,” The View co-anchor Lisa Ling told the crowd at
View ArticleLa Côte Basque 2003: Capote’s Backdrop To Fold Its Tent
In what could be seen as a gesture of poignant irony, Jean-Jacques Rachou, the longtime chef and owner of the
View ArticleFoodies Can Only Dream: Pros Dish on the Restaurant Biz
Almost everyone, at one time or another, dreams of opening a restaurant-holding forth at the copper-topped bar as you welcome
View ArticleTavern on The Green Takeover? Trump Lukewarm, Nieporent Reluctant, LeRoy Defiant
"I refuse to sell the soul of Oz," a defiant Jennifer Oz LeRoy, the alluring 30-year-old owner of Tavern on
View ArticleHow Can He Go Vong? An Asian Fusion Star Rises on the Lower East Side
TORONTO—On a cold, cloudy November afternoon, celebrated chef Susur Lee sat quietly in the back room at Madeline’s, one of
View ArticleDrew Nieporent Has a Dog Pile Premonition of James Beard Awards Glory
Jovial restaurateur Drew Nieporent stood outside of Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall on Monday evening, May 4, holding an umbrella
View ArticleAxis Spies? Alex Who? Four Seasons Guys Get Treated Like Guests at 50th...
“With friends like you, who needs relatives?” quipped Alex von Bidder, co-owner of the illustrious Four Seasons restaurant, after enduring
View ArticleYumm! Humm Gobbles Up James Beard Award; DuFresne Food World’s Susan Lucci
“Hollywood has an entire awards season! We have one night of the year to pat ourselves on the back,” said
View ArticleTo Do Wednesday: Chow Down for a Good Cause
SUS, or Services for the Underserved, is having a gala called the Inaugural Dinner for a Better New York at
View ArticleBâtard, Drew Nieporent’s Latest Offspring, Reproduces an Illustrious Line
Nieporent says “bâtard” refers to the region of Bâtard-Montrachet, not its English analogue, but who is he kidding? Bâtard means "bastard," with all the charm and troublemaking the word implies.
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