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A First Look at Corton, Menu and All
See what Montrachet looks like now that it has reopened with Paul Liebrandt in the kitchen.
Posted 10/06/08 in Grub Street : Openings
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At Corton, Gael Greene Considers Forgiving Paul Liebrandt’s Foamy Sins
The Insatiable Critic comes back with first word on Drew Nieporent's reinvention of Montrachet.
Posted 10/06/08 in Grub Street : Openings
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Corton Will Open October 1, As Promised
The Drew Nieporent–Paul Liebrandt collaboration will open tomorrow.
Posted 09/30/08 in Grub Street : Openings
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Corton to Open This Weekend?
Or will Nieporent wait until after Rosh Hashanah?
Posted 09/22/08 in Grub Street : Openings
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Fall Preview: Cool Winds Bring Good Eats
New restaurants from Ken Friedman and April Bloomfield, Zak Pelaccio, and Drew Nieporent in this year's fall preview.
Posted 08/25/08 in Grub Street : In the Magazine
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A Magnolia Bakery for Midtown; Is Tap Water Safe?
Where to eat tacos in the Hamptons, a new casual restaurant at the U.S. Open, and more, in our morning news roundup.
Posted 08/20/08 in Grub Street : Mediavore
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Have You Ever Been (New York Culinary) Experienced?
A veritable who's who of the New York food world.
Posted 07/10/08 in Grub Street : Foodievents
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Chang Bans Food Photography at Ko; Chefs, Bloggers Prove Resistant
David Chang's quixotic quest to ban cameras at Ko is earning its own wave of bloggy controversy.
Posted 06/20/08 in Grub Street : NewsFeed
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Boulud Makes the A-list; Blue Hill’s New Slaughterhouse
Plus Lisa's peanut-butter mashed potatoes from 'Top Chef' end up on a menu, there are some good wine books to buy for Dad, and more, in our morning digest of news and gossip.
Posted 06/06/08 in Grub Street : Mediavore
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Liebrandt, Nieporent to Open Corton
The secret, such as it is, is out.
Posted 06/04/08 in Grub Street : NewsFeed
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‘Top Chef’ Spike Leaves Mai House
Spike of 'Top Chef' is out at Mai House, and the rumor mill quickly replaces him with another cheftestant.
Posted 05/20/08 in Grub Street : NewsFeed
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Gristede’s Owner Thinks More People Are Eating In
The grocer and mayoral candidate thinks $500 dinners are a thing of the past.
Posted 04/04/08 in Grub Street : NewsFeed
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Gordon Ramsay's Flaws Are Not His Own; Cockroach Drops In at Waverly
A cockroach shows up at the Waverly Inn, New York is running out of plutocrats, and KFC plans to sell grilled chicken. What is the world coming to?
Posted 03/24/08 in Grub Street : Mediavore
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Meyer, McNally, Nieporent Respond to New NYC Food Festival
The Times reported last week that New York will get its own Lee Schrager food festival this fall (as we predicted last year), but does the city’s food community really want one? We rang up a few people who we’d expect to be involved with such an event and got a mixed reaction.
Posted 02/28/08 in Grub Street : Back of the House
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DOA Makes You Wait Longer to Eat Frankenbeef; Find Dinner on FoodTube
Though the FDA approved the sale of meat and dairy from cloned animals, the Department of Agriculture is asking farmers to postpone introducing cloned animals into the food supply until they can calm retailers and overseas trading partners. [NYT] Related: FDA to Beef Industry: Send in the Clones The list of restaurateurs interested in snatching up Tavern on the Green when its lease expires at the end of the year has expanded to include heavyweights such as Danny Meyer, Drew Nieporent, and the Ciprianis. [NYP] The Great Restaurant Critic Notebook Caper of 2008 continues! With confirmation that it belongs to neither Frank Bruni nor Danyelle "Restaurant Girl" Freeman, the search for its owner goes on. [Eater] Related: So the Critic Left Her (?) Notes. So What?
Posted 01/16/08 in Grub Street : Mediavore
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Jacques Pépin Eats Everything Except Raw Fetuses
It was a foodie fantasy last night at the Waldorf-Astoria, where the likes of Daniel Boulud, David Bouley, Sirio Maccioni, Drew Nieporent, and Jacques Pépin had gathered for the lavish annual Food Allergy Ball. We caught up with Jacques Pépin in the grand ballroom before he was to be honored for his valiant fight against cross-contamination. Asked if he had any food allergies himself, the master chef admitted, “No, I don’t,” adding that “I’m a real glutton. I eat anything you put in front of me.” We found that hard to believe from a man known for culinary perfection. “Ask my wife!” he said, so we did. “He’ll eat anything I put in front of him!” Mme. Pépin testified. Still, we wondered if old Jacques can be a diva at home — had he ever pronounced Lady Pépin’s grub “unacceptable”? “Are you kidding? She’d put it on my head, I say that!”
Posted 12/11/07 in Grub Street : Foodievents
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Meyer and Batali Face Off; Gordo's Advice on the Closer
Meyer, Batali, Nieporent, and others compete to see who’ll serve VIPs at the new Jets/Giants stadium. Interesting! And how does this affect Meyer’s rumored plans to take Shea Stadium by ShackStorm? [NYP] Gordo’s first-date fail-safe: Take your girl to Ducasse’s place in Monaco, then tell her what you really want is roast beef and Yorkshire pudding. Wow — the guy's like something straight out of The Pick-Up Artist! [Forbes] Naked Chef Jamie Oliver, in town to promote his book, says his feelings are hurt from being slagged by Bourdain: “You rate someone [like Mr. Bourdain] and then they think you're a bit of a pussy. It's not very inspiring.” [Globe and Mail]
Posted 11/16/07 in Grub Street : Mediavore
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Swiss Restaurant Mogul Looks to Become Uppity Burger Baron
Among the high rollers we met at last night’s autism benefit was a good-natured Swiss restaurateur with the formidable name of Dr. Wolf Wagschal. Wagschal was being shown around by our old pal Drew Nieporent, and we found ourselves chatting up the good doctor about his plans. It appears that Wagschal has it in mind to create a gourmet, high-end, white-tablecloth restaurant devoted entirely to hamburgers. “It won’t be like you have here, with your bacon cheeseburgers and so on,” he tells us. “We will have a cordon bleu burger, a vitello tonnato burger, a mushroom-and-Brie burger, and so on. And it won’t be like the DB burger either; it will be totally dedicated.” Wagschal wants the restaurant, which he plans to open first in Switzerland and then in New York, to have the atmosphere of Tribeca Grill. And who can blame him? But unless he serves one of our bacon cheeseburgers, we won’t be going there. Vitello tonnato!
Posted 10/25/07 in Grub Street : NewsFeed
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Batali, Bastianich Dip From the Same Cookie Jar for Different Candidates
After Nino Selimaj was ordered to take down his photo of Chelsea Clinton at Osso Buco (it’s still hanging), we got to wondering where other restaurateurs fall on the political spectrum. All we had to do was run some names through the Huffington Post’s FundRace 2008 search engine to find out, for starters, that Mario Batali gave $1,000 to John Edwards while his business partner Joe Bastianich gave $2,300 to Rudy Giuliani (this could get ugly). So who are other restaurant honchos like Drew Nieporent, Danny Meyer, Siro Maccioni, et al backing?
Posted 10/18/07 in Grub Street : Back of the House
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Drew Nieporent Hardly Ever Eats Like a Restaurant Mogul
Let’s say you were the city’s most famous restaurateur, the man who more or less invented Tribeca, and still owned three or four of the city’s most popular restaurants in Tribeca Grill and the three Nobu restaurants, not to mention Mai House and Centrico. Let’s say you were also seriously overweight. What would having complete command of four restaurants within one block of your office — not to mention the red carpet at every other restaurant in town and an essentially bottomless food budget — do to you? Drew Nieporent used his resources to go on the ultimate New York diet and lost 70 pounds in the process.
Posted 08/24/07 in Grub Street : The New York Diet
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