Fine Dining & French
New York, NY
Eleven West
Rooftop restaurants with views often coast on scenery while the kitchen coasts on mediocrity. Eleven West is the exception. Chef Park's tasting menu is rigorously seasonal — my winter visit featured a parsnip soup of startling purity, a venison loin with juniper that tasted like a cold forest, and a...
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Le Comptoir is the kind of restaurant that reminds you why French cuisine became the foundation of fine dining worldwide. Chef Dubois doesn't chase trends — he perfects traditions. The duck press, performed tableside with a gleaming silver press, produces a sauce of such depth and complexity that it...
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Chef Washington is doing something truly important at Harlem Standard — he's telling the story of the African diaspora through food, and doing it at an extraordinarily high level. The jollof rice risotto is genius: the technique is Italian, the flavor profile is West African, and the result is cream...
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