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...Colicchio, a judge on Bravo's Top Chef and the owner of the Craft restaurants in New York City and Los Angeles, says food costs still make up 28% to 32% of an entrée's price--only now that means some of his entrées are $50. "The high-end restaurants are looking for stuff made by the small farmer, and this stuff just costs more money," he says. "If you have a small farmer that makes 40 chickens a week, it's going to cost more than a factory farm that's making 4,000 chickens a week...
...your warm heirloom apple fritter and Shack-a-ccino (total: $5.31) on a folding plastic chair under the shade of a tree. In nearby Bryant Park stand four 'wichcraft kiosks, offering such gourmet handheld meals as stone-ground grits ($4) and marinated white anchovy sandwiches ($8). Owner Tom Colicchio (Craft and Gramercy Tavern) also has an outpost on a Tribeca street corner and even caters to Hampton Jitney passengers. But don't be fooled by these eateries' casual façades and low prices. Fine ingredients and culinary methods can transfer from ritzy kitchens to patches of grass...
...chef." He adds, "To have a star means it's really incredible cuisine." Yet some chefs privately say they're miffed that the Pig now sits in the same league as highly inventive (and acclaimed) restaurants like WD-50 and Craft, whose chefs (Wylie Dufresne and Tom Colicchio) are considered virtuosos of progressive, inventive fare...
...plans to open in spring 2005. The idea is to offer each of its 500 invitation-only members a Core consultant to orchestrate the experience--from booking spa treatments to arranging a meeting with the club's art consultant. Butlers will help members in the gym, chef Tom Colicchio will run the restaurant, and the Core consultants will set up screenings and business meetings--all for an initial fee of $100,000 for elite founding members (supposedly 100 people have already signed up) and $25,000 for other members. "This is for people who are at a place in life...
Movies have had way too much fun with Italian-American stereotyping, but Lee plays it dead serious, unendurably shrill--and for an endless 2 hrs. 20 min. Still, we can't pin all the blame for ethnic defamation on Lee; his screenwriters are Victor Colicchio and Michael Imperioli. To them, we cry, like a stern Italian grandma, "Vergogna!" That's how you say "Shame on you" in Italian...