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Daniel

60 E. 65th St., New York, NY, 10021
nr. Madison Ave.
212-288-0033

8.7 "Highly Recommended"
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84% Would you go back?
78% Would you take a date?
6% Would you take kids?
75% Would you go on business?
81% Would you go on a special occasion?
Food: 8.8
Service: 8.7
Décor: 8.9
Value: 7.6
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Great Night!

GourmetGrad from 10011 | Posted on 8/28/09

Overall Rating: 10 (Highly Recommended)
Would you go back? Yes
Would you take a date? Yes
Would you take kids? No
Would you go on business? Yes
Would you go on a special occasion? Yes
Food: 10
Service: 10
Décor: 9
Value: 10

I had the best dinner ever here. Not only was the food fantastic, the service was out of this world. We also got a tour of the kitchen! Really great time here, worth going and I dream of returning!

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3 out of 6 people found this review helpful.

If nobodies perfect Daniel's comes close

Elliot from 3183 | Posted on 1/6/09

Overall Rating: 10 (Highly Recommended)
Would you go back? Yes
Would you take a date? Yes
Would you take kids? No
Would you go on business? Yes
Would you go on a special occasion? Yes
Food: 9
Service: 10
Décor: 10
Value: 8

I enjoyed a near perfect gastronomic experience last night at Daniel's. It is little use saying the venue the service the variety tastes and textures of the food were all excellent (they were) but three things were not. The 40 minute wait to be seated after we arrived perhaps 2 minutes before our reservation time and the heavy bordelaise style sauce which dominated one fish dish and also the aged dominated the Angus beef. for a full review see 1001dinners.com

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9 out of 15 people found this review helpful.

Xavier Herit's delicious drinks

DivaDiner from 10001 | Posted on 12/15/08

Overall Rating: 10 (Highly Recommended)
Would you go back? Yes
Would you take a date? (NA)
Would you take kids? (NA)
Would you go on business? (NA)
Would you go on a special occasion? (NA)
Food: (NA)
Service: (NA)
Décor: (NA)
Value: (NA)

Their mixologist/bar manager is a complete genius. BehindtheBurner.com did a fabulous segment that shows how he creates his exotic strawberry "pearls". Linky here! http://video.behindtheburner.com/video/Cocktails-with-Mixologist-Xavie It's so freaking cool, great insight into the restaurant!

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10 out of 19 people found this review helpful.

a culinary experience

MarylinReiner from 10021 | Posted on 7/18/08

Overall Rating: 10 (Highly Recommended)
Would you go back? Yes
Would you take a date? Yes
Would you take kids? No
Would you go on business? Yes
Would you go on a special occasion? Yes
Food: 10
Service: 10
Décor: 10
Value: 10

After I got my hair done at Rodolfo Valentin, the best hairdresser in New York, I asked my husband to invite me for dinner at a restaurant matching the quality of my look. He said: “Daniel”, where else? . Wonderful meal, chic service and there are not enough words to describe such a great culinary experience.

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14 out of 34 people found this review helpful.

Perfection!

chicintelligente from 06033 | Posted on 6/23/08

Overall Rating: 10 (Highly Recommended)
Would you go back? Yes
Would you take a date? Yes
Would you take kids? Yes
Would you go on business? No
Would you go on a special occasion? Yes
Food: 10
Service: 10
Décor: 10
Value: 10

The food was fresh and delicious. It is creative and pleasing to the palate, and puts a twist on french cuisine that is rarely seen. The service was excellent, attentive, and had a great sense of humor. Our table was lovely. The decor, though extensive, was classy and tasteful.

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22 out of 34 people found this review helpful.

Toney Awards Dinner

wausaudude from 19348 | Posted on 6/18/08

Overall Rating: 8 (Recommended)
Would you go back? No
Would you take a date? No
Would you take kids? No
Would you go on business? Yes
Would you go on a special occasion? No
Food: 8
Service: 10
Décor: 9
Value: 6

We had dinner at Daniel prior to attending the Toney Awards Sunday night. The Service is what one would expect from a world class escoffier brigade. Service was oustanding, the decor a bit pretentious, but then again, eating at Daniel and going to the Toney's is pretentious....Anyway, the food was very good, but both my wife and guests really expected something a bit more, I really expected the food to blow my socks off, and it really didn't...

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13 out of 24 people found this review helpful.

Worth The Price

jalenwhite33 from 18704 | Posted on 2/24/08

Overall Rating: 8 (Recommended)
Would you go back? Yes
Would you take a date? Yes
Would you take kids? No
Would you go on business? Yes
Would you go on a special occasion? Yes
Food: 9
Service: 7
Décor: 8
Value: 8

Daniel was A Great Dining Experience. The Decor Was Very Elegant And Clean. The Food was Perfect And Delicious. Enjoyed Everything About The Experience. Everything was Excellent Until The End Of Our Meal when we Had to Wait 30 Minutes For Our Waiter To Take Our Dessert Order. Although The Salted Caramel Ice Cream was the Best We Have ever Tasted.

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59 out of 121 people found this review helpful.

Iconic Daniel

martin_chamois from West 50's | Posted on 1/16/08

Overall Rating: 10 (Highly Recommended)
Would you go back? Yes
Would you take a date? Yes
Would you take kids? No
Would you go on business? Yes
Would you go on a special occasion? Yes
Food: 10
Service: 10
Décor: 10
Value: 8

While Daniel Boulud is undoubtedly spread very thin with multiple restaurants, books, television, etc., he maintains a close watch on his main restaurant - Daniel. Every aspect of Daniel is refined, organized and near perfection. And while one expects, perhaps fears, that snobbery and haughty attitude come with such high class restaurant, nothing could be further from the reality of Daniel. From your encounter with the first person to the last, you the customer are king at Daniel. The main dinning room is an operatic stage of flowers and lighting for the dinning tables. Managers, waiters and bus boys glide through the room. Daniel makes an appearance and dinners do their earnest to catch his eye and be honored by his appearance table side. The classic to contemporary French cuisine displays the finest of ingredients, excellent sauces, and a knowledge of American/New York dinning preference. Everything is excellent - period. Yes the price for perfection and elegance and a bit of celebrity is high, which makes dinning at Daniel more frequently than annual birthdays, anniversary and receipt of Wall Street bonuses unlikely. But those annual visits are well worth the wait.

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87 out of 198 people found this review helpful.

what a disapointment

ahranj from 07024 | Posted on 11/9/07

Overall Rating: 5 (Mixed Reviews)
Would you go back? No
Would you take a date? No
Would you take kids? No
Would you go on business? No
Would you go on a special occasion? No
Food: 5
Service: 3
Décor: 4
Value: 2

one word to describe the experience....blah. Just everything about it was so awful. I felt like i was at a banquet hall for restaurant week. Our table got the four course tasting menu and left hungry. None of the dishes were memorable.The canapes tasted like they were made hours before they were served. The server didnt even know who ordered what. The wine pairing was a joke, they served everyone at the table the same horrible red wine when we ordered different meats. The desserts were ok but lacked presentation, just a sliced piece of cake with a quenelle of ice cream, how boring. The best part of the meal were the petit fours and the madelines they served at the end. Truly sad. I'd rather spend my $$$$ somewhere else.

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155 out of 285 people found this review helpful.

Overall, a good experience

Elizabeth27LV from 89109 | Posted on 5/16/07

Overall Rating: 7 (Recommended)
Would you go back? Yes
Would you take a date? Yes
Would you take kids? No
Would you go on business? Yes
Would you go on a special occasion? Yes
Food: 8
Service: 3
Décor: 10
Value: 7

I loved the decor at Daniel - and the experience was good overall. I went with a friend while visiting NYC - I have dined at Daniel Boulud's restaurant in Las Vegas, but this was my first time at one of his NY Restaurants. I give the food an 8 - it was wonderful, but not excellent (and VERY expensive). The server had an attitude. He was a snob, to put it nicely. I understand that restaurants of this caliber need to maintain a certain "image" - but I have been to several upscale French restaurants and they seem to be able to be friendly to their guests while simutaneously being "high class". The majority of Chef Daniel's staff takes this attitude overboard - fake French accents, snide remarks (making us feel uneducated) about the food/wine and just a little too uptight overall. I WOULD go back. I just didn't think the place was as perfect as people say it is.

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238 out of 563 people found this review helpful.

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