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NYC: Le Bernardin (Oct. 2012)
Author: Victor
Restaurant: Le Bernardin
Exec Chef: Eric Ripert
Date: October 11, 2012
Dinner (Chef’s Tasting Menu)
Notes:
1. Le Bernardin is Chef Eric Ripert’s flagship restaurant, and it’s known as the best seafood restaurant in North America (a temple of seafood, yadayadayada).
2. They gave us a free 2012 Zagat Guide to go with the menu at the end, so that was nice. Too bad the 2013 one’s already out :(.
Menu changes:
1. They replaced the arctic char dish with a black bass dish.
NYC Sushi: Gari Columbus (Aug. 2012): Omakase (Only Sushi)
Authors: Victor and Monty
Restaurant: Gari Columbus
Chef: Masatoshi Gari
Date: August 15, 2012
Ollie’s (Oct. 2012): A Morningside Heights Tour of China’s Best
Authors: Victor, Monte, Steven, and Tad
Restaurant: Ollie’s
Chef: I have absolutely no idea.
Date: October 4, 2012
Steven: So Tad has this weird thing where he calls non-French, American, and Japanese food “ethnic food.” He doesn’t eat it if he can help it, because he thinks it’s cheap or bad or something like that. We’ve been trying to tell him that the very concept of “ethnic food” is kind of silly, especially in places like New York where cuisine is such an interesting mix of so many different cultures.
Tad: It is true that I rarely eat “ethnic” food. When money is not an issue, why would you deliberately seek out food that brands itself as cheap. Naturally, when these guys invited me along to get Chinese food, I was reticent. But after much cajoling and the suggestion that I was missing out on a large class of good food, I agreed to go, under the condition that the restaurant be 100% authentic, and the food was of the very highest quality of its type.
Monte: Of course, we took Tad to the only place in town that was authentic and classy—this was definitely not Imperial Garden.
Monte
Victor
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