| TED KRUCKEL 05.26.09 9:00 AM |
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Talking to Ted: Daniel Boulud Is Excited About Sausages and Beer
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This is the fifth in a series of five conversations with event pros about what's working now.
Chef Superb Daniel Boulud had an excuse to be worried last fall, re-opening his flagship Daniel after a multi-million dollar facelift just as the market tanked. But a re-garnering of four stars in the The New York Times has led to new rush of gourmands. His other restaurants are, of course, Café Boulud, DB Bistro Moderne, and his newest will be a Lower East Side beer and sausage bistro, DBGB, which is scheduled to open officially June 8. And don’t forget Feasts & Fêtes, his catering arm.
So business at Daniel is good. How do you do it?
There are challenges. Corporate business has been soft. But we’re trying to show our customers that we’re willing to offer more for the dollar. For example, we now offer a prix fixe five-course tasting menu with wine pairings for $98 at early hours. The same meal without wine is normally $105. Our regular customers are responding to that.
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| EVENT REPORT 01.23.09 12:50 PM |
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Citymeals-on-Wheels Teams Up With Top Chefs at Tasting Event to Combat Vanishing Donors
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Chefs Daniel Boulud and Marco Moreira turned Wednesday's book launch for Dining in New York City into a fund-raiser for Citymeals-on-Wheels. Held at the new condominium 15 Union Square West, the event showcased 13 of the 40 restaurants featured in the guide—as well as the venue itself—and more than 300 guests raised an estimated $30,000 while sampling dishes from such restaurants as Per Se, Nobu, Boulud’s Daniel, and Moreira’s Tocqueville and 15 East.
“This is an event that benefits everyone,” said Jan Bartelsman, the photographer and publisher of the guide. “We’re raising a lot of money for Citymeals and displaying the space, which is good for the developer. The chefs get to showcase their food, and I get to showcase my book.” Bartelsman was encouraged by Moreira and Boulud to introduce the guide with an event to benefit a charity that has been serving some of the city’s neediest residents for 28 years.
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| EVENT REPORT 01.20.09 10:51 AM |
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Alice Waters's Minimalist Inaugural Dinners Bring Together Country's Culinary Stars
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FROM WASHINGTON
A frigid wind was not the only driving force on Embassy Row last night as sustainable agriculture guru Alice Waters brought together the superstars of the culinary world to produce an “Inaugural Supper” for 175 guests at the Phillips Collection and for groups of 22 to 40 guests in 11 private homes across the city.
In six short weeks, with the capital in planning overdrive, Waters and the staff of her restaurant, Chez Panisse, in Berkeley, California, recruited dozens of Washington-area volunteers, rented a venue (when most were spoken for), secured food and drink donations from sponsors, hired a noted caterer, and staged an eco-organic event-called “Art. Food. Hope.” that honored the new president and benefited local food banks.
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| VENUE NEWS 02.20.08 10:35 AM |
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Boulud Opens New Spot and Preps for a Busy Year
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 | Chef Daniel Boulud at Bar Boulud
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Busy barely describes Daniel Boulud’s schedule. The chef and restaurateur owns six restaurants (four in New York, one in Palm Beach, and another in Las Vegas), runs the catering operation Feast & Fêtes, writes books, and tapes television shows. And this year his agenda includes promoting Bar Boulud, a 100-seat wine bar and bistro on the Upper West Side that opened in January, as well as finalizing plans for Maison Boulud in China, a French fine-dining restaurant in the former United States embassy compound near Beijing’s Tiananmen Square (that’ll be restaurant number seven), and an eatery on the Bowery (number eight).
For now the focus is on Bar Boulud, which faces Lincoln Center’s Josie Robertson Plaza and the Metropolitan Opera House, just five blocks north of Columbus Circle. “The Lincoln Center area has a wonderful cross section of residential, business, and performing arts communities,” Boulud says about his choice of location. “It is a real crossroads. While it was not traditionally known as a great restaurant neighborhood, that has changed a lot over the last few years and just keeps getting better.”
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