Wylie Dufresne

Wylie Dufresne at the Rubin Museum and a Whole New World of Beef

Monday, April 15 French Roast Downtown's 20th Anniversary Celebrate French Roast Downtown's twentieth anniversary with a three-course menu priced at $19.93, the year it opened. Peter Hudson will serve a classic French menu from April 15 to 18 that includes escargots, roasted bone marrow, and moules- ... More >>

wd-50 Holds a Reunion for Friends and Family

At 8 p.m., the only clue that something big was happening at wd-50 was the methuselah of champagne that was touring the quietly buzzing room, a six-liter megabottle that was poured at every table. It set the tone for the once-in-a-lifetime reunion of family members--and lucky hangers-on--that was ac ... More >>

Wylie Dufresne Opens Alder in East Village; Desnuda Opens in South Williamsburg

Wylie Dufresne has caused quite a stir with the opening of Alder, his new restaurant on Second Avenue. The hotspot opened last Thursday and was the newest East Village restaurant to warrant waiting lines around the block. Dufresne told Flo Fab, "It's not meant to be a destination, like wd-50." Inste ... More >>

Look for Brown Butter Potato Chips at the Union Square Greenmarket

Fighting through the spring crowds at the Union Square Greenmarket (those are MY ramps!) can induce serious hunger. On your next visit, look out for the bags of salty potato chips at the Mountain Sweet Berry Farm stand, one of the market's best snacks. The delicate chips, made from German butterbal ... More >>

NYC Restaurants and Chefs Nominated for James Beard Foundation Awards

Some of New York's top restaurants and chefs were honored this morning with James Beard Foundation Award nominations, including April Bloomfield, Danny Bowien, and Michael White for Best Chef. Blue Hill was nominated for Outstanding Restaurant, and David Chang earned an Outstanding Chef nod. All win ... More >>

Catch Up With Our Food Critics: Rao Enjoys "New York Nordic" and Sietsema Finds "Perfect Jerk"

This week, our restaurant critics ventured beyond the Manhattan dining scene, with Robert Sietsema on the hunt for authentic Jamaican jerk all over Flatbush, and Tejal Rao sampling new Nordic dishes at Williamsburg's Aska. How did their Brooklyn choices stack up? Read on to find out.

James Beard Foundation Announces 2013 Chef and Restaurant Award Semifinalists

Hollywood has the Oscars. The food world has the James Beard Awards. The annual ceremony that recognizes both outstanding and upcoming talent in the restaurant industry has just announced its 2013 crop of semifinalists. The current (incredibly long) list will be narrowed down to finalists on Monday ... More >>

Wylie Dufresne Is Opening a Second Restaurant

Ten years after opening his world-renowned restaurant, wd-50, which our critic recently reviewed, chef Wylie Dufresne will be opening a second restaurant in New York's East Village in the spring of 2013. According to Grub Street, Alder will be a 50-seat pub just blocks away from Momofuku Ssam Bar ... More >>

Wylie Dufresne Launches a Big New Tasting Menu at WD-50

Welcome to the funhouse

Under the Toque: Asian Food Craze, New Menu at WD-50

Wylie Dufresne at WD-50 is creating a completely different menu with brand-new dishes. [NYTimes] Iron Man competitor Joe Bastianich talks about his new book and the dark secrets of restaurants. "The skills of a maître d' are the same skills a hooker has--to please the clients. . . . Make them fee ... More >>

Last Chance to Taste Wylie Dufresne's 'Stairway to Heaven'

Every chef has a "Stairway to Heaven," that annoyingly crowd-pleasing dish they can't take off the menu. For Wylie Dufresne of the Lower East Side gem WD-50, it's his modern rendition of eggs Benedict, which once blew our collective minds with fried cubes of Hollandaise. Well, it's the end of an era ... More >>

Gwynnett Street's Justin Hilbert on How He Found The Gig on Craigslist, Takes Inspiration From Wylie Dufresne

​New kid on the block, Gwynnett Street (on Graham Avenue in Greenpoint) is getting a ton of recent buzz. The reason? This is the coming-out party of Justin Hilbert (formerly of WD-50), plus his partnership with Esca's former wine director Carl McCoy, as well as a rotating menu, creative eats, etc. ... More >>

Marge Becomes a Food Blogger on this Sunday's Simpsons [Yawn]

20th Century Fox via Grub StreetI recognize most of the characters, but who's the bald guy?​ The end-times for Foodism are near, my friends. This Sunday, Marge Simpson turns into a food blogger, as reported in an extensive Grub Street interview with Simpsons executive producer Matt Selman. To ... More >>

Sandwich Spinoffs: Restaurants Spread Their Sammies

Lauren BloombergTribeca gets a mouthful at Pane Panelle.​ First, there was speculation that the owners of Torrisi Italian Specialties would take over the vacant space next door. Then it was announced last spring that they would indeed turn the adjacent spot into a second location: A spin-off o ... More >>

Portland's Andy Ricker Coming to NYC; Jonnatan Leiva 'Out' at 10 Downing

​Gualtiero Marchesi, the first chef in Italy to win three Michelin stars, teamed up with McDonald's to create two burgers and a dessert. [Daily Meal] Eddie Huang announced on his blog that Andy Ricker, of Pok Pok in Portland, is going to open a "wing shack" in the old BaoHaus space. [Zagat Bu ... More >>

VICE Munchies Is Back, and Peckish

​ VICE Munchies, the two-year-old Web series that has trained its lens on the likes of David Chang, Andrew Carmellini, Brooks Headley, and Hugue Dufour and Sarah Obraitis, has just kicked off a new season with an episode featuring Wylie Dufresne. As per the series's usual format, the chef ha ... More >>

Dewey Dufresne to Open BYGGYZ, an Unusually Monikered Sandwich Project

A sandwich, though not a Dufresne sandwich.​Sandwich shops just keep on rising from the ashes of the 2008 financial meltdown, and the latest indication of their still surging popularity comes from none other than Wylie Dufresne's dad.

James Murphy, Wylie Dufresne, And Others To Headline Le Grand Fooding's Campfire Session Next Month

​On September 17 Le Grand Fooding will host what it's calling the Campfire Session at the Elizabeth Street Garden downtown; there'll be dishes designed by LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy and WD-50's Wylie Dufresne, DJ sets by Nancy Whang and DJ Mehdi, and performances by Sondre Lerche and Hanni ... More >>

Lucky Peach Is Now Available for Consumption

​Following the months of buildup that greet any endeavor remotely related to Momofuku, Lucky Peach, the quarterly magazine from David Chang, Peter Meehan, and McSweeney's, is now available at bookstores and newsstands.

April Bloomfield Will Help Russ & Daughters Celebrate the New Catch Holland Herring Season

Russ & Daughters​June is to clupeophiles - or herring freaks as they're more commonly known - what March is to college basketball fans. Why? Because it marks the beginning of the all too brief New Catch Holland Herring season.

Empellon--Alex Stupak's Big Experiment

Can a renowned pastry chef make a decent taco?

Savoy Will Start Serving a Ton of Cassoulet Next Week

​On the heels of last weekend's Cassoulet Cook-Off comes the welcome news that more is on the way, courtesy of Savoy.

Alan Richman Will Appear on Treme

​Four years after he wrote a post-Katrina appraisal of New Orleans restaurants that angered the city's inhabitants almost as much as than the entire Bush administration, Alan Richman is returning to the scene of his crime, sort of. In an interview with Grub Street, the GQ critic mentioned tha ... More >>

Being Fat Costs America $168 Billion; Peanut Brittle All the Rage

​A new study reveals that nearly 17 percent of U.S. medical costs can be blamed on obesity - some $168 billion. [USA Today] Conceiving your child in early spring can increase its chances of developing food allergies, according to Finnish researchers. [BusinessWire] Meanwhile, men who eat a l ... More >>

Fish 'n' Chips Ice Cream Expands the Weirdo Ice Cream Universe

Fredericks DairiesIf it looks like fish 'n' chips and tastes like fish 'n' chips...​Although we haven't experienced the pleasure (terror?) of sampling it, we're willing to bet that the fish 'n' chips ice cream being produced by an English dairy company qualifies for the Strange Snacks of the W ... More >>

Wylie Dufresne and John Zorn Will Help Russ & Daughters Celebrate the Arrival of New Catch Holland Herring Season

Humble fish, mighty flavor.​Clupeophiles, rejoice! New Catch Holland herring season is nearly upon us, with less than three weeks left until the first shipment arrives at Russ & Daughters on June 8. Last year, the appetizing mecca celebrated with a herring and aquavit pairing at the Roger Smit ... More >>

Colicchio, Ripert, Dufresne, and Chang Have Their Treme Moment

As anticipated, Tom Colicchio, Wylie Dufresne, David Chang, and Eric Ripert popped up on Treme last night. In the clip above, they show up at Patois, a NOLA restaurant run by chef Janette Desautel. They're introduced by a waitress, who tells Desautel that "four guys with a lot of attitude walked i ... More >>

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 >>

Countdown to New Holland Herring at Russ and Daughters

Last year's catch​The time for New Holland herring--equal to the finest sushi--is almost upon us.

Our Ten Worst Food Show Hairstyles

On this fine Friday, we turn our thoughts from food to follicles. Among the many, many reasons to watch televised cooking shows are the coiffures sported by their hosts and contestants. Top Chef wouldn't be Top Chef without its dependable supply of fauxhawks and Sapphic mullets, or, for that matter, ... More >>

What Animal Does Your Favorite Chef Look Like? Phase Two

​Guy Fieri looks like an ostrich A couple of days ago in a sort of stoned fugue, we got the paranoid idea that chefs were really animals posing as people. Not a very good idea, certainly, but one that proved so much fun to investigate, that we did it again.

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.

Couples to Splurge on Eating Out this Valentine's Day; Are Fancy Restaurants Getting Louder?

​China is doing a 10-day emergency inspection of dairy products following reports that some of the tainted products that the government ordered destroyed during the food safety scandal of 2008 had been repackaged for sale. [NY Times] Couples are expected to spend less on Valentine's Day gift ... More >>

In Praise of Food-Based Fundraisers

Townend Photography/flickr​One of the great things about food-based fundraisers is that they provide valuable opportunities to indulge in base gluttony in service of a noble cause. And September happens to be full of such opportunities. Tonight, Let Us Eat Local, a fundraiser for Just Food, wi ... More >>

The Blogroll Gazette--R.I.P Albin & Who the Hell Is Kelly Choi?

This week in food blogs... The week started with reports pouring in about last weekend's not-so-great Great American Food & Music Fest, and a (somewhat defensive) apology from mastermind and Serious Eats founder Ed Levine, who claimed logistical problems for the poor organization of the event. The ... More >>

The Blogroll Gazette--Eat Me Daily Hypes Obama Food Book; The 'Bag Drools Over Men's Health' Pig Porn

This week in food blogs... Eat Me Daily discovered a new book entitled The Obama Menu: Dining with Barack Obama, which compiles menus, photos, quotes, and recipes for dishes that Obama may have eaten. EMD was hardly thrilled by the spoiler alert, though: "Multiple appearances by food guru Alice Wat ... More >>

The Secret's Out--Sherry Society Coming to a Back Room Near You

You're induction into the secret society will go something like this: You'll receive an invitation telling you where and when to convene. You'll arrive, be greeted with a cocktail, and led down a flight of stairs or perhaps a darkened hallway to a secret room where others share your enthusiasm. We ... More >>

Under the Toque--Chefs and Food Sellers Band Together to Create Supply Chain

Bravo announced the chef'testants slated to compete in the upcoming Top Chef spinoff, Top Chef Masters, which include New Yorkers Wylie Dufresne, Anita Lo, Nils Noren, Christopher Lee and Jonathan Waxman. [Eater] Christian Delouvrier of La Goulue in Bal Harbour, Miami and previously of Alain Ducas ... More >>

What a Long, Strange Season It's Been

Movin' on out: Leah (photo: Bravo)How to cap-off the chefs' time in New York--a time that began with them peeling apples in the Big Apple, then had them pretending to care about the Foo Fighters and cooking Thanksgiving dinner in toaster ovens in the middle of the summer, and featured Padma dressed ... More >>

Wylie Dufresne Plays with Tofu

Sietsema on Crif Dogs' Secret

Opening Night

First round of Tailor diners praise servers, renounce narcissism, eat pork belly

Chowhounds on Sietsema Diss in Time Out

Seize the Egg

Adventures in eating at new Lamb joint on East 5th Street

Tongue in Cheek

Eating la lingua loca

Culinary Smack Down

Iron Chef New York: Batali vs. Dufresne

Letter From Chicago

Strange and scientific culinary doings invade the Windy City

Night of the $12 Cocktail

Wherein the Unrepentant Sissy Drinker and pal enjoy fall drinks at WD-50; plus, Pegu Club's weird colonial homage

Yuzu Juice for the Rest of Us

Shopping like a chef

Paunch it Up

Pork belly goes elite