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All Posts Tagged: ‘karine bakhoum’

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7/15/08

5:30 PM

Chodorow to Expand Kobe Club to Acapulco, L.A.

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Jeffrey Chodorow had the last laugh.Photo: Getty Images

Jeffrey Chodorow seems to have had the last laugh with Kobe Club. Though Chodorow received zero-star reviews from Frank Bruni and Adam Platt, and then placed a now-legendary full-page ad in the Times protesting those reviews, Kobe Club is still in business. The Kobe Beach Club, in the Hamptons, is doing boffo receipts, as well, and now we're told by Chodorow's PR reps that he plans to open a Kobe Club in Acapulco later this year and one in Los Angeles in the future. The chef, who is said to be eager to compete with Wolfgang Puck's successful Cut, hasn't found a space in California yet. “L.A. loves things that are upscale, and you can’t get any more upscale than the Kobe Club,” says rep Karine Bakhoum. We don't know if that's true, but at least the critics there can't be any harsher than their East Coast counterparts.

Related: We Ask Jeffrey Chodorow If He’s Been Feeling Well Lately

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1/ 3/08

11:42 AM

Center Cut to Serve Just That; Maxim Just What Meatpacking Deserves

Ono: too subdued and subtle for the neighborhood.Photo: Eric Laignel

So why is Jeffrey Chodorow’s new Lincoln Center meatery to be called Center Cut? Because it will be devoted to the center cuts of meat! There will be center-cut steaks, center-cut pork chops, center-cut venison, and so forth, says the chef's rep Karine Bakhoum. We are flabbergasted. Such a proposition sounds insanely expensive and is also silly, since the first two ribs off the shoulder (ribs 1 and 2 in the trade) are by far the best ones, with the biggest portion of the spinalis dorsi muscle, also known as the “lip” or “deckle.”

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2/16/07

11:00 AM

Earth to Chicago: You Lost ‘Iron Chef’ Fair and Square

Still, we're betting Bowles can take Flay in backyard wrestling.Photo courtesy of the Food Network

Monday’s Iron Chef, in which Chicago chef Graham Elliot Bowles lost to Bobby Flay, has occasioned a gale of protest from the Windy City. For proud Chicagoans, it’s just not possible that Bowles could have lost; as A.J. Liebling put it, the prevailing local belief is, simply stated, that “everybody in the world is trying to put one over on Chicago.”

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