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The Biggest Restaurant Makeover in New York City

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How the owners behind HAGS turned a famous — and famously dark and cramped — Momofuku space into a colorful restaurant that’s decidedly queer My first time walking into HAGS, a queer fine dining destination in the East Village, I thought I would be flooded with memories. The transformation was sort of an amazing feat.

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A Highly Specific Guide to Barcelona’s Best Tasting Menus

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How to go all-out on at least one meal in the tasting-menu capital of the world Fine dining has had a tough go in recent years. In most cities around the world, stepping off the street and into a cushy dining room means missing out on important local culinary traditions in favor of a tablecloth and some generic amuse bouche.

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SinglePlatform Customers on Food & Wine’s 40 Most Important Restaurants List

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These restaurants have played a part in defining dining in America over the decades. dining scene. Since, he has built up the Wolfgang Puck Fine Dining Group with a host of restaurants, bars, and lounges nationally and internationally. Spago’s concept is modern fine-dining and a 2012 renovation gave way to a sleek design.

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SinglePlatform Customers on Food & Wine’s 40 Most Important Restaurants List

Single Platform

These restaurants have played a part in defining dining in America over the decades. dining scene. Since, he has built up the Wolfgang Puck Fine Dining Group with a host of restaurants, bars, and lounges nationally and internationally. Spago’s concept is modern fine-dining and a 2012 renovation gave way to a sleek design.

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MRM Research Roundup: Catering, Kiosks, Tipping and Dry January

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Drinking outlets, particularly Sports Bars, thrived on NFL’s Big Game, while Fine Dining outlets emerged as the biggest winners on Valentine’s Day, experiencing the strongest trends vs average, with velocity up +144 percent vs the average Wednesday of 2024. They were ranked based on their standard menu pricing per person.

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Stone Barns Claims It’s Fixing Agriculture. Former Employees Say the Farm Was Plagued by Dysfunction.

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Because of the pervasive influence of the Rockefeller family and Stone Barns in the relatively small world of sustainable agriculture, a number of people who spoke for this story did not wish to be identified. “At In the course of reporting this story, I’ve spoken with more than 20 sources. Cole Wilson/Bloomberg via Getty Images.

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Blue Hill at Stone Barns Tells a Beautiful Story. Former Employees Say It’s Too Good to Be True.

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Blue Hill at Stone Barns’ alluring story — that a fine dining restaurant could be a model for changing the world — seduced diners, would-be employees, and thought leaders alike. Numerous sources asked to be anonymous, fearful of the enormous reach and influence of Dan Barber.

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