[Photos: Kathy Chan] In the summer of 2008, we brought your our Guide to the Best Doughnuts in NYC. For that, we trekked up and down the city, eating doughnuts in every bakery and doughnut shop we could find—an...
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Watching Per Se from the French Laundry's kitchen in California. Photograph from pellis on Flickr Per Se may be feeling a 10 percent drop in reservations, as the New York Times reports, but you wouldn't know it by the...
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Although burger prices may be going up, prices at Per Se are going down—kind of. Frank Bruni shares the details of Per Se's new recession-friendlier dining option at Diner's Journal. Starting on Wednesday the restaurant will offer a "salon menu"...
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We have two tickets to a Thomas Keller event at the Astor Center this Saturday at 6:30 p.m., celebrating his new book Under Pressure. Keller will join his friend and co-author Michael Ruhlman, along with Per Se chef de...
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Mark at the blog Black Napkin goes behind the scenes at Per Se and comes back with a series of beautiful photos. He says: It was eerily silent. Everything and everyone was moving in perfect unison, as if they...
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Like most serious eaters, I've been searching for deliciousness my whole life, but sometimes, even I acknowledge there's often more to eating out than great food. Obviously for me the food is paramount, but there are other factors that go into judging great restaurants.
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Lately I've been doing a lot of thinking about doughnuts, both in NYC and elsewhere. And my conclusion is not pretty, especially when it comes to doughnuts in Gotham. Basically, I've concluded that New York is a lousy doughnut town....
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Our Per Se waiter offered us a tour of the kitchen. We walked into the eerily silent, pristine kitchen, and who was there to greet us? Jonathan Benne, the chef there, who laughed when we started discussing the merits of...
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If anybody in the blogosphere ever doubted the power of our chosen medium, the story I'm about to tell will make a believer of any naysayer in the old media world. Arthur Sultzberger, Jr. at the New York Times and...
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Can one meal be so good that it's worth $210 before wine, tax and tip? Well I'm going to find out today when I have lunch at Per Se, which I sometimes refer to as the Church of Thomas...
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