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March 22, 2012
Under the Toque: Bocuse d'Or Winners, Marcus Samuelsson's Harlem
Gordon Ramsay is suing a Montreal restaurant, Laurier BBQ, for $2.7 million over his role in the restaurant's makeover. [CBC via Huff Po] The winners of the European Bocuse d'Or this year were all Scandinavian chefs. See who took home the gold.
Blogs
February 22, 2012
Make Spice Market's Ginger Margarita for National Margarita Day
The refreshing-looking ginger margaritaToday is National Margarita Day, a great holiday of dubious origin that allows us to drink a lot on a Wednesday without feeling guilty. In honor of the holiday, Spice Market is having a half-off special on pitchers of its signature ginger margarita, making t ... More >>
Blogs
December 22, 2011
Marcus Samuelsson Talks Urban Farming
Marcus Samuelsson has recently penned an op-ed for the Huffington Post, in which he implores readers to think deeply about food policy during the upcoming elections.
Blogs
December 22, 2011
Filippo Gozzoli 'In' at Sirio
Sirio Maccioni says that he's going to open a branch of his eponymous restaurant at the Pierre hotel. Maccioni has told reporters that he's bringing in Filippo Gozzoli, formerly of Milan, to run the eatery. [Grub Street]
Blogs
September 30, 2011
New York City's 17 Greatest Chefs
The re-Africanized fried chicken at Marcus Samuelsson's Red Rooster This highly idiosyncratic list is based entirely on my own dining predilections, and only includes chefs whose work I'm reasonably familiar with. Certain figures have been excluded from consideration -- Thomas Keller, for example ... More >>
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September 29, 2011
Ian Chalermkittichai 'In' at Spot Dessert Bar; Michael Sullivan 'In' at Veselka Bowery
Ian Chalermkittichai, formerly of Kittichai and currently at Ember Room, is taking over at Spot Dessert Bar from Pichet Ong. Chalermkittichai also recently opened a dessert bar in Bangkok. [Zagat Buzz] Dominique Ansel, the ex-pastry chef at Daniel, is opening Dominique Ansel Bakery this October, wh ... More >>
Blogs
August 15, 2011
What's Happening This Week: Crayfish Celebration, Tomato Fest
Our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the hottest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! Krawfish Kräftor Party Red Rooster Harlem Monday, August 15 at 7 p.m. Join d.j. Kim Hastreiter, co-founder of Paper magazine, and chef Marcus Samuelsson in this celebration of cr ... More >>
Blogs
August 8, 2011
The DOH Puts Red Rooster Back on the 'A' List
In late June, the DOH visited Red Rooster and didn't like what it found. Inspectors slapped Marcus Samuelsson's Harlem restaurant with 31 violation points, or the equivalent of a 'C' grade. But as of last week, the chef is now back in the department's good graces.
Blogs
July 21, 2011
Zak Pelaccio 'In' at Food Republic; Joey Boroski 'In' at Ember Room
Zak Pelaccio is the latest chef turned online columnist. Like Sara Jenkins of Porchetta and Porsena, who pens essays for Atlantic Life, the Fatty Crab and 'Cue founder will be writing The Alimentary Canal for the Marcus Samuelsson-backed Food Republic. His co-contributor is colleague Jori Jay ... More >>
Blogs
July 14, 2011
Marcus Samuelsson Gets More Love from the Times, Not So Much from Hamptons Mags
Times and Marcus, sitting in a tree.Geez, New York Times and Marcus Samuelsson: get a room! The Grey Lady has already given up plenty of inches of copy to the Red Rooster chef-owner -- never mind documenting his wardrobe in intimate detail -- but has still managed to find more to print. This ... More >>
Blogs
July 11, 2011
Isn't There Anything We Can Believe in Anymore?
Oy. It's only Monday, and already our innocence is lost.
Blogs
June 9, 2011
Christopher Rendell 'In' at Highlands; Andrea Bergquist 'Out' at Red Rooster
Alex Sorenson, the opening chef at Colonie in Brooklyn Heights, has left the restaurant to open his own place. He'll be replaced by Brad McDonald, who has worked at Alain Ducasse at the Essex House, Per Se, and Noma. [Eater] Christopher Rendell has taken over the kitchens at both Mary Queen ... More >>
Blogs
June 6, 2011
Treme Focuses on Food; German E. Coli Outbreak Source Revealed
Regular guys test out some of the recipes on Marcus Samuelsson's FoodRepublic.com, a food blog targeted at men. [NY Daily News] Treme has shifted its focus this season from music to food, with real celebrity chefs making cameos and scenes set in professional kitchens. [NY Times] The source ... More >>
Blogs
June 3, 2011
The Week in Food Blogs: Dead Dining Trends; Celebrity Foodies; Hot Hamptons Restos
This week in food blogs... Eater enlightened us about 10 NYC food and dining trends that are officially dead. Grub Street discovered that Hugh Jackman has always been something of a foodie. Midtown Lunch tucked into a steaming pot of Pro Hot's Korean tofu stew even though it was a bajillion degre ... More >>
Blogs
March 31, 2011
Red Rooster's Marcus Samuelsson Dishes Up the Comfort Food: Interview Part 2
Photo courtesy Marcus SamuelssonThe way to this man's heart? Make him a tartare.Yesterday we spoke with Red Rooster's Marcus Samuelsson about his new food and lifestyle website geared towards men. Today he tells us about cooking for the ultimate diner--President Obama--and what it means to ... More >>
Blogs
March 30, 2011
Red Rooster's Marcus Samuelsson on Launching an Online Men's Mag
Photo courtesy Marcus SamuelssonMarcus Samuelsson has a narrativeMarcus Samuelsson is a busy man. Not only is he helming the kitchen at the popular new Red Rooster, he's also just launched Food Republic, an online cooking and lifestyle publication geared towards the male sex. So we called u ... More >>
Blogs
March 10, 2011
Eddie Huang Defends Marcus Samuelsson Against All the Haters
Marcus Samuelsson has found his very own Merri Lee Kingsly in the form of Eddie Huang.
Dining
February 16, 2011
Red Rooster—the Swede Smell of Success
Superchef Marcus Samuelsson moves into his new uptown digs
Blogs
February 10, 2011
German Lucarelli 'In' at Da Silvano; Mehdi Chellaoui 'In' at Brown Café
German Lucarelli is the new chef at Da Silvano. His first order of business: introducing brunch. [Grub Street] Chef and owner of Red Rooster Harlem Marcus Samuelsson was included in a list of most stylish New Yorkers. [TONY] Brown Café has a new consulting chef. Mehdi Chellaoui is a choco ... More >>
Blogs
February 10, 2011
Marcus Samuelsson Scores Yet Another Product Endorsement
Over the past year or so, Marcus Samuelsson has lent his fine name to many things: stainless steel cookware, a fragrance, Kraft Foods, American Airlines, kitchen linens, MasterCard, gas ranges, Buick, a cruise line, television, and, oh right, the Red Rooster. And to this list, we can now add ... More >>
Blogs
December 13, 2010
The Red Rooster Will Open on Friday
Following months of speculation, the cock will crow on Friday when the Red Rooster finally opens its doors. Florence Fabricant reports that Marcus Samuelsson's Harlem restaurant will initially serve dinner and then expand to serve both breakfast and a $16 three-course prix fixe lunch menu. (Q ... More >>
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December 2, 2010
Nick Morgenstern Debuts Goat Town; Villa Pacri Kitchen Still 'In Flux'
Nick Morgenstern is no longer at the General Greene in Fort Greene. The chef has moved on to the East Village to open Goat Town. [Grub Street] The chef situation at Villa Pacri is still "in flux." Fabio Trabocchi is consulting until January, with Giuliano Matarese of La Gazzetta downstairs ... More >>
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November 12, 2010
The Week in Food Blogs: Best Coffee, Pumpkin Pie
This week in food blogs... Eater asked, "Are New York's dive bars really in danger?" Most signs point to yes. Meanwhile, Grub Street got a glimpse of a Coney Island gone corporate: Is that Ruby's replaced by Ruby Tuesday? Feast listed its best coffee programs: Eleven Madison Park, Frankies 457, a ... More >>
Blogs
October 21, 2010
Marcus Samuelsson Delays Red Rooster Yet Again; Hung Hyunh Now with the EMM Group
Marcus Samuelsson has delayed the opening of his much anticipated Red Rooster yet again and is now preparing for a November debut. [Eater] Franco Bario, the former chef de cuisine at Boqueria, is opening Caliu, a new Spanish tapas place slated to launch next Thursday on Hudson Street. [Craig ... More >>
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October 18, 2010
Marcus Samuelsson's Harlem; Eleven Madison Park's New Menu Format
Being so close to the New York metropolitan area is great for nearby farmers because of the locavoric trend, but difficult because of the high cost of land. [NY Times] Action Against Hunger set up 10,000 plates in front of the Eiffel tower for an installation called "Banquet Against Hunger" ... More >>
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September 8, 2010
De Gustibus Celebrates Its 30th Anniversary Next Week
On the eighth floor, chefly nirvana.De Gustibus has been holding cooking classes on the eighth floor of Macy's since 1980, providing us hapless plebes with the opportunity to learn firsthand from the likes of Mario Batali, Jacques Pépin, Madhur Jaffrey, Sara Jenkins, Edna Lewis, and Al ... More >>
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September 2, 2010
The Red Rooster Will Be All About Harlem
Marcus Samuelsson has been a busy, busy man lately, what with winning Top Chef Masters, designing cookware for the Manhattan Target, and getting the Red Rooster up and running in Harlem. Samuelsson shared some details about the restaurant with Paper magazine, and from the sounds of it, he has ... More >>
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August 19, 2010
New Head Chef at Fives Leaves; Former JoJo Meat Cook Cries Sexual Harassment
Riingo, the Japanese fusion restaurant once run by Marcus Samuelsson, no longer serves Asian food since Samuelsson left last year. Executive chef Jimmy Lappalainen has completed reworked the menu. [Crain's] Colby Spikes, formerly the sous chef, is the new head chef at Five Leaves near McCarr ... More >>
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July 12, 2010
New York's Cheap Eats Issue
Out today is New York's Cheap Eats issue, wherein Robin Raisfeld and Rob Patronite round up the year's myriad developments in (mostly) affordable eating. They've got your burgers, your new-wave Asian (Fatty 'Cue, Baohaus, Umi Nom, et al.), your vegetarian, your noodles, fried chicken, and so on. B ... More >>
Blogs
June 10, 2010
Rachael Ray Pissed at Good Housekeeping; Marcus Samuelsson Takes Top Chef Masters
Michael Psilakis is looking for locations for his next venture in four different Manhattan neighborhoods: Midtown East, Upper West Side, the East Village, and the West Village. Plus, his Williamsburg project is still a "work in progress." Busy man. [Grub Street] Rachael Ray called out Good ... More >>
Blogs
June 7, 2010
Marcus Samuelsson Has a Website on the Horizon
Marcus Samuelsson, Webmaster.A short while ago, word made its way through the grapevine that Marcus Samuelsson -- a chef who is no stranger to multitasking -- had yet another project on the horizon. Specifically, a website dedicated to -- unsurprisingly -- the topics of food and dining.
Blogs
May 6, 2010
Ripert, Chang, Colicchio & Dufresne on Treme; Marcus Samuelsson Demoted to Shareholder at Aquavit
Josh Moulton, who was the executive chef at West in Los Angeles, will take over the kitchen at Monkey Bar, which recently lost consulting chef Larry Forgione to P.J. Clarke's. [NY Times] Aquavit is no longer referring to Marcus Samuelsson as its chef-owner. The Top Chef Masters contender is ... More >>
Blogs
March 30, 2010
Marcus Samuelsson Crows a Bit About the Red Rooster
Marcus SamuelssonWay back in February, it was revealed that 1) Marcus Samuelsson would be a judge on this season's Top Chef Masters and 2) his new Harlem restaurant would be called the Red Rooster. Today the chef talks with the Wall Street Journal about TCM, which premieres next week, and the ... More >>
Blogs
February 10, 2010
Top Chef Masters Line-Up Has Been Unleashed
Entertainment Weekly got its hands on the line-up for Season 2 of Top Chef Masters, which will premiere on April 7. Of the 22 competitors, six were featured on Season 1.
Blogs
February 10, 2010
Marcus Samuelsson's New Restaurant Is Indeed Called the Red Rooster
Marcus Samuelsson Earlier today, we noticed that the Top Chef Masters Season 2 line-up listed competitor Marcus Samuelsson's restaurant as the Red Rooster, rather than Aquavit, and wondered if this was the name of the new project he's reportedly been working on in Harlem.
Blogs
January 7, 2010
Marcus Samuelsson May Be Opening a New Restaurant in Harlem
Last year, Marcus Samuelsson pulled out of his now-closed Ethiopian restaurant, Merkato 55, published a well-received cookbook, New American Table, and cheffed President Obama's state dinner for the prime minister of India. Yesterday, Paper Magazine reported that Samuelsson is opening a new r ... More >>
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June 11, 2009
Cookbook Tester--Marcus Samuelsson's New American Table
Samuelsson's vegetable soup Last week, we brought you a recipe from Marcus Samuelsson's first book, The Soul of a New Cuisine. Samuelsson, of Aquavit, has a new cookbook coming out this October called New American Table. The new book is quite different from the first, which focused on the flavors ... More >>
Blogs
June 3, 2009
Cookbook Tester--Marcus Samuelsson's The Soul of a New Cuisine
Malata Aquavit's Marcus Samuelsson has a new cookbook coming out this October, called the The New American Table. After a flip-through, it looks like the recipes are more home-cook-friendly than those in his last book, The Soul of a New Cuisine. That's the book we're cooking from today--a fat, beau ... More >>
Blogs
October 7, 2008
New This Week: Naya
Malata Aquavit's Marcus Samuelsson has a new cookbook coming out this October, called the The New American Table. After a flip-through, it looks like the recipes are more home-cook-friendly than those in his last book, The Soul of a New Cuisine. That's the book we're cooking from today--a fat, beau ... More >>
Blogs
April 28, 2008
Merkato 55 Deathwatched
Malata Aquavit's Marcus Samuelsson has a new cookbook coming out this October, called the The New American Table. After a flip-through, it looks like the recipes are more home-cook-friendly than those in his last book, The Soul of a New Cuisine. That's the book we're cooking from today--a fat, beau ... More >>
Blogs
March 26, 2008
Our Man Sietsema at Merkato 55
Malata Aquavit's Marcus Samuelsson has a new cookbook coming out this October, called the The New American Table. After a flip-through, it looks like the recipes are more home-cook-friendly than those in his last book, The Soul of a New Cuisine. That's the book we're cooking from today--a fat, beau ... More >>
Dining
March 25, 2008
Is African Food the Next Big Thing? Maybe With Merkato's Spectacular Catalog.
Famed Aquavit chef offers a kaleidoscope of African fare in the meatpacking district
Blogs
February 7, 2008
Now Hiring: Merkato 55, West Village Grom, Smith Street Wine Bar
Famed Aquavit chef offers a kaleidoscope of African fare in the meatpacking district
Blogs
December 7, 2007
Now Hiring: Marcus Samuelsson, Fabio Trabocchi, Iacopo Falai
Famed Aquavit chef offers a kaleidoscope of African fare in the meatpacking district
Blogs
September 13, 2007
Now Hiring: the Good Fork, Kyotofu
Famed Aquavit chef offers a kaleidoscope of African fare in the meatpacking district
Blogs
August 28, 2007
Marcus Samuelsson and Starbucks Sitting in a Tree
Famed Aquavit chef offers a kaleidoscope of African fare in the meatpacking district
Blogs
July 12, 2007
Now Hiring: Marcus Samuelsson, Top Chef, Hill Country
Famed Aquavit chef offers a kaleidoscope of African fare in the meatpacking district
Blogs
May 24, 2007
Now Hiring: Junior's, L'Impero
Famed Aquavit chef offers a kaleidoscope of African fare in the meatpacking district
Books
November 21, 2006
Knife's Edge
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