I often joke with my friends that NYC Restaurant week is “when the head chef takes a vacation, the sous chef plays head chef, the waiter plays sous chef, the busboy plays waiter.” . . . → Read More: Why I dislike NYC restaurant week, or shall I say month.
When you dine at Jean Georges at Columbus Circle, do you expect Jean-Georges Vongerichten to be expediting the dishes? When’s the last time somebody saw Nobu Matsuhisa behind the sushi bar at Tribeca? How do you know when you dine at Craft, Tom Colicchio is not in Brooklyn filming Top Chef? . . . → Read More: Celebrity Chefs – Does it still matter who is the best cook? Or rather who is the better manager.