Wine Dinner at Acqua; A Benefit With Anthony Bourdain:
FIDI —Acqua at Peck Slip is hosting the first in a series of four wine dinners this coming Thursday, February 27. Executive chef Ivan Beacco will craft a five course menu with wine pairings from Regal Wines. [Acqua]
UPPER WEST SIDE —Bar Boulud is hosting a winemaker dinner tomorrow night featuring "two idiosyncratic winemakers." Andrea Calek from the Ardeche and Jean-Claude Chanudet from...
Daniel Boulud's trademark "quality shines through" in a "less formal setting" at this "handy" French bistro–wine bar mash-up opposite Lincoln Center, where a "memorable" menu starring "celebrated" charcuterie "delights" at a relatively "accessible price point"; the "tunnel-like" digs can be "tight", but "bonus" sidewalk seating is a "welcome detour" "pre- or post-performance."
Bar Boulud Restaurant Review:
If each restaurant in Daniel Boulud’s restaurant empire were royals, Daniel would be Queen Elizabeth, the elegant grande dame. Café Boulud in turn would be her more modern, but only slightly less stiff, offspring, Prince Charles. Db would be the young-but-privileged Prince William, while the youngest progeny, Bar Boulud, would be the more affable, approachable Prince Harry. Bar Boulud is the...
Bar Boulud Alum in Maine; Cochon 555 Returns to NYC:
PORTLAND, ME ? Chef Damian Sansonetti, executive chef at Bar Boulud until this past September, is opening a café and catering company in Maine. It could open as early as February. [~EMAINE~]
COCHON 555 ? Eater National has the preliminary details on the fifth anniversary tour of the traveling pork competition Cochon 555, happening next year. The celebration of all things pig kicks off in New...