When we first came to New York City about 25 years ago our taste buds were opened to a new world. Certainly we always enjoyed good food and I had even cooked way back then sometimes roasting chicken in a...
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upstairs at bouley at 130 west broadway in tribeca is the youngest of the three restaurants owned by chef david bouley. opened just over a year ago, it was part of his grand plan to expand into a bakery and meat market, with a casual restaurant upstairs and a test kitchen where he holds cooking classes. it seemed like an exciting idea, sort of a bouley-one-stop-shopping center, where one could have a great lunch upstairs, take a cooking class with the maestro , then buy the meat ,fish, bread and pastry downstairs, take everything home and create your own gourmet french dinner at home. the outcome , however, is probably not what the chef envisioned. first of all, tribeca is not exactly a bustling residential neighborhood. in fact, if you walk around there, there are not many people to be seen on the streets. so who is going to the bouley market to buy aged meat, free range chicken and fish ? especially if you can just walk up the carpeted stairs and have a great meal at upstairs at bouley ? hmm, let me see ….. eat delicious food at modest prices made by a bouley trained chef with complicated sauces that take hours to reduce, or buy some pricy raw meat in the basement at the meat counter situated just outside the restrooms and cook it myself in my low BTU apartment stove ……. come to think of it, buying raw meat and fish that are sold three steps outside the men’s room seems a sketchy idea at best, not to mention a feng shui nightmare.
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Every so often I will give a list of restaurant recommendations based on notable and recent dining experiences I've had. These aren't reviews. No one I know speaks in terms of stars ("Babbo is so three star - you should go!"), so I won't either.
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If there’s one New York City chef I’m not familiar with, it would be David Bouley. Four years ago, the boy surprised me by making reservations at Bouley Bakery (now back to its original Bouley name). But it was a hundred-degree summer day and because I didn’t know he made plans, I met him wearing flip flops. We had to cancel then and we just never revisited.
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