Eleven Madison Park

By Big Apple Dining Guide   Jan 24, 2008

Eleven Madison Park Winter Restaurant Week '08 The last "nice" lunch I had was at Jean Georges, a place that I believe is arguably the best, most consistent restaurant in New York City. I stand by that statement although it is certainly loose footing when you have restaurants like Eleven Madison Park. I've been to EMP and JG about the same amount of times - perhaps a few more times at JG and only a handful of times while Andrew Humm has been in the kitchen at EMP. But every time, the food is outstanding. For the second consecutive time, we didn't get our corner seat - though we did get (again) the table next to it. So at least they are... FULL REVIEW

Eleven Madison Park - Aramis Review

By Dudes on Foods   Dec 21, 2007

Eleven Madison Park is a place I've been curious to check out for a while. So, I figured why not take the fiancee there for her birthday. Was it worth the wait? I definitely think so. This was by far the best birthday dinner I've taken her to - others were at One If By Land, Babbo, and Sapa. Overall, I give the restaurant a 88/100. My Menu We ordered the gourmand tasting menu which has smaller portions than the 3 and 4 course menus. Since I was so excited that we were eating at Eleven Madison... FULL REVIEW

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Eleven Madison Park

By Hungry Hedonist   Oct 02, 2007

Coming soon.... Some really pristinely cut fish with ratatouille I've been meaning to update, but school/career stuff has been more time-consuming than I had budgeted. I am heading to Chicago in around 48 hours for some molecularly gastronomic meals, including Schwa, Moto, and hopefully a seat at Alinea if I can get off the wait list. I am hoping to squeeze in a post before then, but if not, I FULL REVIEW

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Eleven Madison Park

By CountryEpicure   Jul 28, 2007

For the third dining celebration of my 67th birthday we went to Eleven Madison Park with Ron and June, our first time at this highly-rated restaurant set in what had been the cavernous art deco executive briefing center of The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. The extensive wine list came right away; we ordered a bottle of [...] FULL REVIEW

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A Bittersweet Ending to Restaurant Week: Eleven Madison Park

By The Wandering Eater   Jul 26, 2007

Lunch at Eleven Madison Park was my last and final restaurant for Restaurant Week on Monday. (For those of you who are still curious when is it over, it’s officially this Friday, July 27, 2007; while some restaurants are extending ’til Labor Day.) EMP’s interior once you enter… I had high hopes for EMP, since I [...] FULL REVIEW

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Eleven Madison Park, Summer RW, July 16, 2007

By Big Apple Dining Guide   Jul 16, 2007

Restaurant Week at Eleven Madison Park is a tradition in my family. Every RW, my father, wife and I sit, more often than not at the same table on the first day of restaurant week to ensure that we receive the $25 gift certificate they give to customers. FULL REVIEW

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Spring colors in bloom: Eleven Madison Park

By Ritz Bites   Jun 04, 2007

May in New York is an awesome time of year. The trees and flowers are exploding in color and texture. People are in a good mood. Lunch at Eleven Madison Park, perhaps the most staid of the Danny Meyer Empire,... FULL REVIEW

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11 Madison

By Gotham Gal   Apr 30, 2007

In our quest to try out top restaurants in city, with the kids, we went to 11 Madison Park last night. David Humm, the Executive Chef has been getting high accolades and recently a 3 star review in the New... FULL REVIEW

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Eleven Madison Park Revisited (An Anniversary Dinner)

By The Amateur Gourmet   Apr 12, 2007

Craig and I had our one year anniversary on Sunday. We thought about renting a zip car and going somewhere out of state; we thought of returning to the location of our first date--Lucien, in the East Village, where I... FULL REVIEW

Eleven Madison Park

By Big Apple Dining Guide   Mar 29, 2007

Eleven Madison Park Had lunch today at EMP with dad. Reminder everyone...you only have two days left to use the coupon you received during Restaurant Week. FULL REVIEW

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Eleven Madison Park Restaurant: The Gourmand Menu

By The Wandering Eater   Mar 15, 2007

For the sake of being curious, I wanted to try Eleven Madison Park’s tasting menu for lunch. Why? Well, I still have their Restaurant Week certificate (which worth $24.07). It would be interesting to let Chef Daniel Humm strut his stuff for lunch, instead of me picking out what I think tastes good. The only thing [...] FULL REVIEW

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Restaurant Week: Eleven Madison Park

By The Wandering Eater   Jan 30, 2007

Eleven Madison Park Restaurant has made several changes over the past few years: the décor has turned into a somewhat more casual atmosphere and most importantly, the newly appointed chef Daniel Humm. The latter change is the biggest change because first, he is a young chef and he gives the food such an inspiring tastes and textures that I haven't eaten in Eleven Madison Park for years. However with the head pastry chef, Nicole Kaplan gone, the pastry department has taken a downturn. The savory courses outdoes the dessert courses here. FULL REVIEW

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Eleven Madison Park - Winter RW '07

By Big Apple Dining Guide   Jan 27, 2007

All in all, my 10th visit to Eleven Madison Park (under three different chefs) was terrific. Not sure how they do it, but nearly every time I eat there (especially at lunch) we get the same table...which is terrific, because we *love* the table that we nearly always get. FULL REVIEW

Tidbits: Les Halles, Eleven Madison Park, Tabla Bread Bar, Sripraphai, Prune

By Big Apple Dining Guide   Nov 28, 2006

Had lunch yesterday with dad. Service was, I hate to say it, confused. Actually - the hostess was confused. Polite though. Also, I ordered the halibut, but was served the salmon. I was hungry and time was of the essence, so I just kept it. The food was delicious. Dad and I got the same dishes and being that I was in a rush, we stuck to the a la carte menu. FULL REVIEW

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Humm Still Not Top Tier

By ChuckEats   Nov 27, 2006

I went to 11 Madison twice during my recent trip - a Tuesday and Saturday. Neither meal was overly impressive but it’s the potential that is even more frustrating. These meals weren’t an improvement over Daniel Humm’s San Francisco tenure at Campton Place but the flashes of brilliance were still there. It sounds like he may have been realizing this potential during the summer when many reviewers on varied online forums could do nothing but rave. However, these meals, while pleasant, were solidly in the second tier of US dining. FULL REVIEW

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when foodies date ….. eleven madison park

By eat 2 love   Nov 24, 2006

new york probably has more restaurants per capita than any place on earth, or at least it seems that way. we certainly have the greatest variety with a melting pot of immigrants from every place on the planet bringing their foods and opening up restaurants. on one block in my neighborhood there is a pizzeria next to a tibetan restaurant across from a sushi restaurant and thai , italian and greek restaurants. manhattan is a foodie playground. FULL REVIEW

My Dinner At Eleven Madison

By The Strong Buzz   Oct 09, 2006

Restaurants can sometimes make me feel a certain way. Some places make me feel cool, or like I might at least be cool for one night. Places like Freeman’s, Five Ninth, and The Spotted Pig. Others make me feel like I’m at home. I’d put Five Points, Tia Pol, and Little Owl in this category. The other night when I had dinner at Eleven Madison Park, I felt something I don’t often feel. I felt like a grown up. How rare. But that’s what happens whenever I dine there, or spend a night at the bar sipping on one of their sophisticated cocktails often garnished with Greenmarket fruit. I feel like a real honest-to-goodness adult. The next day I return to my usual mental state, somewhere in my teens, in my standard daily outfit of cargo pants, a t-shirt and a hoodie. Add braces and a skateboard and I could be a thirteen year-old. But when I pushed through the sturdy old revolving door of Eleven Madison last week, I was transformed into a civilized, put-together, and moderately educated and productive adult. Poof! It was a nice change. FULL REVIEW

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NYC Dining: Eleven Madison Park

By Off The Broiler   Oct 02, 2006

Last week, I turned 37 years old. Not quite mid-life crisis time, but its been a very busy and sometimes difficult year, with my launching of Off The Broiler and my parting of the ways with eGullet. I always go out to dinner on my birthday, but this year I wanted to do something special: Top notch service at a fine restaurant in Manhattan, and a quintessential NYC dining experience in a majestic space. FULL REVIEW

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My Mini Meyer-athon

By VittlesVamp   Sep 23, 2006

What better way for The Vamp to ring in year 5767 than to partake in vittles? And why stop at just one stop for said New Year's vittles, when New York City has so many culinary treasures to offer? Well, I figured for my figure's sake I ought to narrow the field down a bit. So last night, in celebration of Rosh Hashanah, I joined a good friend for a wee tour of Danny Meyer's wee Madison Park empire. FULL REVIEW

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Eleven Madison Park - Humm on the Range

By Opinionated About Dining   Aug 31, 2006

When you spend a ridiculous amount of time, energy and money eating at restaurants, you get to know a few of the people who work in the restaurant industry. One such person I have become acquainted with over the years is Chris Russell, currently the General Manager of the Union Square Cafe. I must have met Chris close to 10 years ago when he was a Captain at Gramercy Tavern, and he handled a number of wine dinners that my friends and I had organized at the restauarnt. It was way back in the day when Tom Collicchio was doing the cooking himself, and I recall Tom bounding out of the kitchen on more than one occasion to get himself a pour of some unusual wine that we were drinking. Nowadays Chris has moved up the food chain and is a big shot, and instead of organizing the food for my table, he graciously takes my phone calls when I need a table at USC on short notice. He is the living evidence that on occassion, nice people who are dedicated to their job actually get rewarded in life. FULL REVIEW

Eleven Madison

By Gotham Gal   Jun 08, 2006

I loved Eleven Madison when it first opened particularly at lunch.  The large glass windows allow light to stream in.  Huge flower arrangements that took over the airspace just sparkled.  Although the room is stark the light created a glow in the room.  Also, the food was really good.  FULL REVIEW

Eleven Madison Park

By New York Journal   May 15, 2006

I took my mom and my girlfriend to Eleven Madison Park last night. They were doing a good business, but the restaurant wasn’t full at any point during our 3½ hours there FULL REVIEW

Fennel Fantasia New York City Entry #91 Eleven Madison Park

By Veal Cheeks   May 08, 2006

When a restaurant manages to scale the heights of its potential - to discover its G spot - critics must be of two minds. Gone is the opportunity to slip in those cutting bon mots that readers treasure. Great great great makes a tinny sound. FULL REVIEW

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Eleven Madison Park - Spring 06 Prix Fixe

By Big Apple Dining Guide   Apr 20, 2006

On Tuesday, my Aunt Eileen called me having just come back from their place on Melrose, an exclusive island off of Hilton Head accessible only by boat, and asked to take my wife and me out for dinner. At first she suggested Union Square Cafe. I'd been once previously, but before I started my blog - so I was happy about that. Unfortunately reservations were impossible to come by. FULL REVIEW

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Eleven Madison Park - RW 2006

By Big Apple Dining Guide   Jan 27, 2006

My annual lunch at EMP with Dad and Danna was, unfortunately, cancelled due to unavoidable circumstances. However, I was able to get there for lunch on Friday by myself. FULL REVIEW

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Hark! It's 11 Madison Park!

By The Amateur Gourmet   Oct 11, 2005

We all have a list, somewhere in our brains, of things we mean to do--of places we want to eat, things we want to cook, people we want to kill. Sometimes we forget what's on those lists so that when mom calls and says, "I'm coming to New York with dad for that cruise we booked" (they're going on a Fall Foliage cruise) "where should we go to lunch?" I really have no idea what to suggest. But then mom says, "Have you heard of 11 Madison Park?" and suddenly the list illuminates in your brain and you say, "Oh yes! That's on my list!" And mom says: "What list?" and she locks you up in an asylum. FULL REVIEW

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Eleven Madison Park

By Mona's Apple   Aug 08, 2005

Decided to eat at 11 Madison during one of the City's restaurant weeks.I guess the cuisine would be considered French-American..but it's going under fine dining.Friendly hostess sat us at one of the tables in the large dining area...the grandeur of the building makes you feel like you're on the set of the movie "Aviator." Knew I liked the place when the waiter was more than happy to allow us to order off the prix fixe menu and a few things "a la carte." FULL REVIEW

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Eleven Madison Park - Brunch

By Big Apple Dining Guide   Mar 05, 2005

After the tasting menu the night before, I needed more of what Eleven Madison Park had to offer. So I hit up brunch the following morning and was able to use that last RW coupon that was burning a hole in my wallet. FULL REVIEW

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Eleven Madison Park - Tasting Menu

By Big Apple Dining Guide   Mar 04, 2005

Having been to Eleven Madison Park several times before, thus having three $20.05 gift certificates (from Restaurant Week), I decided to return once more but this time to put my food choices in the hands of Chef Heffernan. FULL REVIEW

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Eleven Madison Park - RW 2005

By Big Apple Dining Guide   Jan 24, 2005

The Winter Menu on their website lists less than half of what they offered today. I couldn't believe the options this time around...I think even more than last RW. Good start. FULL REVIEW

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Hyacrabs

By VittlesVamp   Oct 15, 2004

My friend Kristen and I felt like treating ourselves well last night. Since we didn't have the bank to head to Masa or Per Se, we settled on a perfect glass of wine in a perfect room - Eleven Madison Park. Bypassing the grandeur of the main room's art deco design, we grabbed two seats at the restaurant's wine bar. Taking in the collection of dapper, well-suited gentlemen lined to our left and the striking gold ceiling above, we knew we'd chosen well. FULL REVIEW

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Restaurant Week Overload

By VittlesVamp   Feb 06, 2004

Finally got to the grand finale of my two-week Restaurant Week marathon. Celebrated with a friend at Eleven Madison Park, one of Danny Meyer's fine establishments. FULL REVIEW

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