Word: bernardins
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...Nobody ever complains about it," says Eric Ripert, chef of Le Bernardin, Zagat?s No. 3 top rated restaurant in New York City, where the average price of a dinner is $129, up 7% from last year. "The clients tell us we can raise our prices even more," he says. At the BLT Steak restaurants in New York City and Washington, chef Laurent Tourondel is serving a $92 rib-eye steak, and he's pretty sure he's holding back. "I could raise it a little bit more" without losing any diners, he says. "I don't think...
...original version of this article stated that the restaurant Le Bernardin is "Zagat?s No. 1 rated restaurant in New York City." Le Bernardin did hold the top spot in the New York City Zagat guide in 2007, but in the recently released 2008 guide Daniel has claimed the top spot...
...relevant. In France, Michelin has traditionally lionized places in villages and towns in the countryside, inspiring foodies in Paris and Lyon to hop in Le Car (and wear out the tires). Yet it's hard to imagine New Yorkers really needing to be informed, via another guide, that Le Bernardin serves three-star-caliber seafood or that the best porterhouse in town is at Peter Luger (recipient of a star). And tourists can pick up those tips from any decent hotel concierge. So where's the sense of discovery? Michelin's inspectors did venture beyond Manhattan to the city...
Curran is willing to bend somewhat; he has offered not to teach sexual-ethics classes if the Vatican will settle for issuing a statement detailing his errors, but allow him to continue as a theology teacher. Mindful of the potential donnybrook if Curran is dismissed, Joseph Cardinal Bernardin of Chicago, head of Catholic University's board of trustees, has lobbied with the Pope and Ratzinger to accept such a compromise, so far to no avail...
Bendet's implication, one often heard, is that the woman in the Chanel suit or other ensemble appropriate for lunching at Le Bernardin is probably married to a wealthy Republican who does not want his wife clothed by a card-carrying member of the A.C.L.U. And while this is a gross--and deeply cynical--generalization, it's more charitable than another frequently suggested possibility, which is that designers are too myopic to concern themselves with anything outside their showroom...