A year after he pulled out of his hotel restaurant The Libertine and two months after announcing a partnership with the Plaza Hotel to build a food court, new details emerge about celeb chef Todd English’s latest hotel project. As he mentioned last month, English is teaming up with the new InterContinenal Hotel in Times Square to create a French brasserie.
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Overbooked: More on Todd English’s Latest, but not Last, Hotel Project
Yesterday, The Wall Street Journal ran a fairly standard piece on how star chefs have been making the leap to the cocktail circuit lately and in the process, revolutionizing the mixed drink. However, the most intriguing parts of the article are the details of Grant Achatz’s new project: a bar . Boom
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Game Changers: Grant Achatz Opening A Molecular Bar in Chicago
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Whether you are a seasoned chef or someone who has never put together an edible meal, consider expanding your knowledge of cooking by adding vegetarian recipes. Chefs of great restaurants and moms of hungry families will enjoy having …
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Click the image above to view the full photogallery. The Week in Eater : Cafe Bruxelles Shuttered by Fire , Four Mega-Watt Chefs Sign on for NBC Food Truck , Conant at the Coop, Opening Deb. 5, to be Called Faustina , Rhong Tiam Closes up Original LaGuardia Place Location , Eastern Alley, Not B Clinton, Opening on 6 Clinton , The Rise and the Eventual Fall of the Jersey Shore Cast , and Dinosaur Bar-B-Que Seeking to Expand in Brooklyn and Queens .
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Week in Eater: Chefs in Food Trucks, Conant’s Faustina, Jersey Shore Charts
Papilles means tastebuds in English, and if you like you meals meaty and copious, you won’t be disappointed here… photos: JasonW Les Papilles isn’t a new restaurant, but we only discovered it recently. Not far from our hotels and the Jardin du Luxembourg, it’s a sort of hybrid place, open for lunch and dinner, but also selling terrines and good wine
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Restaurant Les Papilles – something yummy for your tastebuds
Bloggers around town have praised Josef Centeno ’s newly opened downtown bistro, Lazy Ox Canteen , and today The Goldster joins the chorus with his two cents: “Other chefs could probably spin four or five restaurants from the controlled chaos of Lazy Ox — a new-wave cantina, a modern bistro, a Japanese-influenced pub, a tapas bar — and occasionally it seems as if Centeno should edit his menu a bit more tightly …In a meal with seven or eight shared tastes, there will probably be one you won’t like. Still, Centeno’s vigorous, imaginative and not-quite-polished cooking is the sort of thing you want to dive into : Flavors from a dozen food cultures ramming into and across and through each other…Lazy Ox is fun with a big group of people — the ewww factor can be a bit overwhelming : Charred octopus with lima beans or steamed whelks will never be as popular as cheeseburgers.” [ LAW ]
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Week in Reviews: Lazy Ox Canteen: "Vigorous, Imaginative, Not-Quite-Polished"
Alice Waters, at Potenza this morning, helped organize Sunday Night Suppers to raise money for DC Central Kitchen and Martha’s Table. metrocurean photo I have to admit, I got a wee bit giddy when I got to shake hands and chat with Alice Waters this morning at Potenza . For a food writer (not to mention the daughter of organic food-loving hippie parents), it was a treat to meet the local food pioneer
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Sunday Night Suppers Raise Awareness, Funds For Local Groups
Bel Pasto is an Italian restaurant in Kepong that is run by real Italian chefs. The restaurant in Kepong is actually Bel Pasto’s second branch, with the first established at Aman Puri not too far away. Initially, I thought Bel Pasto had something to do with pasta because of the word similarity but it actually
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Bel Pasto Pizza Italian Restaurant @ Kepong
I had hoped, in the spirit of other far more prolific gastronomes , to do a roundup of all my dining highlights of 2009 in the form of a categorised list, instead of choosing just one “Restaurant of the Year”. It was partly because I didn’t want to bore people with yet another gushing exaltation to Rules, but I was also curious as to whether even I could reliably recall meals and dishes from the first few months of 2009 – even El Bulli seems like a lifetime ago, never mind my first trip to the wonderful Harwood Arms in February
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Cheese and Biscuits Restaurant of the Year 2009 – Rules
Hiring a personal chef is not restricted to the cream of the crop, the elite, the moneyed, and celebrities. As many personal chefs can validate, even us common folk down in the trenches can avail of such services because of the convenience, the necessitiy, and the prestige with having a professional chef cook for you for a change. And Valentine’s is fast approaching
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Ask me this before Valentine’s
Not long ago, we dispatched travel blogger Heather Cowper on an anonymous review trip to the enchanting Hotel Heritage Av Liberdade in Portugal’s capital. Not only did she produce a terrific hotel review , but she also gave us a whistle-stop tasting tour of the city’s eats… There are so many things I could tell you about our trip to Lisbon . Maybe fado music, the mournful mixture of folk and blues that is sometimes lively, sometimes sad, with lyrics of longing and lost love and being far from home
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Platefuls of Portugal: Lisbon’s tasty treats
Chilli Belacan My visit to Cumi Bali has re-ignited my interest in Indonesian cuisine again! Ironically, when I visited Bali last year, the food did not leave that much of an impression on me. Even the world famous Ibu Oka in Ubud did not live up to my expectations. So Indonesian food has been off the radar for awhile
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Cumi Bali Indonesian: You don’t get this in Bali
The Tyler Florence West Coast Kitchen Essentials line offers chefs the ability to cook with fresh ingredients and add layers of flavor with a single pantry product. “These products are based on some of my favorite recipes and are now even more accessible to the home cook, said Tyler Florence
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Tulocay and Tyler Florence Launch New Culinary Line at Fancy Food Show
I belong to this website called Tastespotting.com that features absolutely gorgeous, mouth-watering pictures that people have taken of their recipes or things that they’re about to eat. Now of course, it’s wonderful fun to look at these pictures, & I once even submitted a picture of my own. It was an unceremonious snapshot of a new soup creation, captured while still boiling madly on a gas-lit stove, in all its bubbling, frothy glory, with its steam rising like a volcano about ready to blow.
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Stepping Into the Ring, Round 1: Substance vs. Food Fashion
Browsed through the winter “combined brochure” for West Seattle’s community centers ? (You can get it online as a PDF , or pick up the paper version at any of those centers.) If not – you might have missed this – lots of new classes for kids @ High Point Community Center , particularly for those 18 months (with parent) to 5 years, and a few for 5-11
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New classes for kids at High Point Community Center
One of the first impression I got from Philly’s dining scene (not the cheesesteak, I didn’t have any) is that establishments from Iron Chef Jose Garces dominates the city. Philly’s downtown isn’t that big but it got touches from Iron chefs all over (Iron Chef Morimoto also has one restaurant down the block). Chifa serves tapas that’s a fusion of Cantonese and Peruvian (Chifa is supposed to be “eating” in Chinese, but shouldn’t it be Chifan or Sigfan if it’s Cantonese?)
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Chifa (Philadelphia)
To go along with my year in review piece today, I thought I'd share the Food Channel's look back at the last decade in food. TOP TEN TRENDS OVERALL Sushi Bacon Cupcakes Sliders Gourmet Burgers made with Kobe or Angus Beef Superfruits such as Acai, Pomegranate and Blueberry Oils, such as olive oils and truffle oils Whole grains, such as Kashi, polenta, risotto Artisan foods, particularly in breads, cheeses and dark chocolates Coffees, teas DECADE’S TOP FLAVORS Pomegranate Wasabi Cranberry Ginger Blueberry Hibiscus Bacon Green tea Dark Chocolate Mint TOP TEN FOOD INFLUENCERS OF THE DECADE Organic foods, along with Locavore and Community Supported Agriculture International Cuisines Food TV and Internet Food Safety The Economy and subsequent shift to home cooking Fast casual restaurant concepts Fair trade and Artisan concepts in bread, chocolates, cheeses Mobility/Social Media/Twitter notifications/Underground dining Mixology Culinary education TOP FOOD PEOPLE OF THE DECADE Food bloggers The local farmer Celebrity Chefs in general: Rick Bayless, Rachael Ray, Paula Deen, Bobby Flay, Guy Fieri, Emeril Lagasse, Gordon Ramsey, Giada De Laurentiis, Mario Batali, Alton Brown, Tyler Florence, Jaime Oliver, Ina Garten Julia Child/Julie Powell The home cook Grant Achatz Alice Waters Thomas Keller Martha Stewart The local restaurant chef TOP TEN GENERAL NEWS TOPICS OF THE DECADE IMPACTING FOOD Food Safety (tomatoes, green onions, H1N1) Food Prices Slow Food Sustainability Consumer generated advertising (Dorito’s Super Bowl ad) The demise of traditional publishing (Gourmet Magazine) OrganicCarl’s, Jr.’s edgy advertising McDonald’s innovation DECADE’S TOP RECIPES Macaroni and Cheese Bread Pudding Risotto Biscotti Ceviche Deep Fried Turkey Crème Brulee Bruschetta Tilapia Guacamole TOP RESTAURANT TRENDS OF THE DECADE Fast casual concept Tapas and shareables Gastropub Molecular Gastronomy Taco Trucks Underground dining Fusion DIY Catering Upscaling of Bar food
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Food decade in review
To the untrained eye, truffles may resemble nothing so closely as potatoes and lumps of volcanic rock. But this doesn’t deter some of the world’s most refined palates from shaving them into risottos and whipping them up with scrambled eggs. The white Piedmont truffle, with its mild, earthy flavour and wonderful aroma, is the pinnacle of the fungal form
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We ask the questions: Q&A with La Villa, and a man who knows his truffles
Michael Cimarusti, far left. [Photo: Leanna Creel] NAPA — Animal boys Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo were not the only LA cheffers to participate in this year’s 12 Days of Christmas at Meadowood , an annual gathering of top chefs wherein each gets his/her own night to create a menu of choice.
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EaterWire: Michael Cimarusti Hits Napa, Melgard Public House Claims Louise’s Trattoria, Eviction Notice Posted On Schmidt’s