If I were to write a properly complete post about our sumptuous, over the top, fantasy-fulfilling six-course tasting menu dinner at Daniel it would a) be too damn long, and b) not reveal much about this lauded New York fancy...
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Graduation Feasting, Part One: Daniel You're a Star
The graduation feasting began Saturday night when mom and dad swept me away to Daniel, a place we'd visited once before but which I longed to return to. "I long to return to Daniel," I informed mom and dad when they were making reservations. They even offered to take me to Alain Ducasse--that palace of glitz and glamour--but I had no desire to take a gamble on a restaurant many describe as "stuffy" "cold" and "not worth it." I wanted to go to Daniel where it's "warm" "welcoming" and "festooned with flowers." So Daniel it was. Here's what transpired.
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Three years back my wife and I had a sparkling dinner at Chef Daniel Boulud's eponymous restaurant Daniel. The meal proceeded without a hitch, but without lasting effect. I recall the room - an elegant stage setting for the drama of cuisine - and the lustrous service. Of all of the grand New York restaurants, Daniel's space is the most theatrical. Despite the elegance of the setting, Daniel never feels stuffy, and the servers, refined but not snooty, set the tone. Yet, without the aid of a blog, I cannot recall a morsel.
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This website has served me well regarding the sway I hold over my parents in determining where it is we are going to eat. Pre-website, our conversations went something like this:
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Some people spend their money on cars, houses, tobacco, music, alcohol, shoes, clothes, electronic gadgets, or collectables. After taking care of my rent and savings account, I spend my money on very few things, one of which is food. Specifically, eating for experience. I developed this habit while living in San Francisco -- one of the best cities in the world for food -- and have continued it here in NYC, also, as it happens, one of the best cities in the world for food
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Some people spend their money on cars, houses, tobacco, music, alcohol, shoes, clothes, electronic gadgets, or collectables. After taking care of my rent and savings account, I spend my money on very few things, one of which is food. Specifically, eating for experience. I developed this habit while living in San Francisco -- one of the best cities in the world for food -- and have continued it here in NYC, also, as it happens, one of the best cities in the world for food.
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I don't even know where to begin. All memories of my dinner at Daniel are coalescing into a single swoon of pleasure. With great effort, I will try to pinpoint the individual stimuli, among them: a special appetizer of creamy risotto with freshly shaved white truffle, a healthy mound of pristine tuna tartare topped with a layer of sevruga and surrounded by radish "petals", a warm tarragon flan accompanying a potato-crusted Arctic char ...wine-braised short ribs so tender that a fork cut right through them... and finally, a mocha Christmas bûche, a molten chocolate soufflé with intensely nutty pistachio ice cream, and petits fours which included holly-decorated chocolates made on the premises. But wait; I must not forget the fresh bread that threatened to spoil my appetite: garlic focaccia, sweet Christmas bread with raisins and powdered sugar, crusty black olive rolls and much more. If you haven't yet been to Daniel, it is time for you to experience one of the places that makes New York City great.
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Daniel is one of Daniel Boulud’s New York City restaurants and has been rated by Michelin and The New York Times with four stars more than once. It’s that kind of restaurant with those kind of people, so my boyfriend and I needed a big event to celebrate for us to have an excuse to eat here. We’re not getting married anytime soon so the best we can do is to celebrate finishing my boyfriend’s first year of med school.
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