Word: restaurateurs
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...FULL HOUSE Marc Landgraf is the sort of unflappable restaurateur Swiss hotel schools churn out, and it's just as well. As I meet him, a party of 60 begins to arrive, the restaurant is fully booked and the 40-odd souls on the waiting list keep vainly pleading for a table. "Bookings," says Landgraf dryly, "are advisable...
Chefs across the U.S. embarked last year on a burger binge, creating increasingly luxuriant foie gras--and truffle-filled versions of the American classic. Attention this year has turned to another summer classic: the humble hot dog. Restaurateur Danny Meyer has set up an outdoor wiener cart near his posh New York City restaurant Eleven Madison Park. Among his fancy franks is a Chicago dog, left, served with 10 toppings on a poppy-seed bun. The Old Homestead Steak House, also in New York, has introduced a $19 Kobe-beef frankfurter, served in a custom-baked brioche bun with truffle...
...brainchild of cheese-centric chef-restaurateur Terrance Brennan, the Artisanal Cheese Center is the first major establishment of its kind in the U.S.: 10,000 sq. ft. devoted to the art of affinage or aging of fine cheeses...
...best and freshest fruits and vegetables on their tables--and to capitalize on the organic-food craze--more restaurants are growing their own greens. Renowned chefs like Alice Waters of Chez Panisse in Berkeley, Calif., and Eberhard Mueller in New York City were the forerunners of the restaurateur-farmer trend, inspiring others to follow suit...
...Cantonese or poor rural folk. But these days, even Shanghai residents are hungry for a taste of the wild. With the city's fortunes on the rise, eating endangered animals such as the Yangtze crocodile or Chinese sturgeon has become yet another way to flaunt one's wealth. Restaurateur Ng says his biggest spenders forked over an average of $120 per diner, in a city where the average monthly income is $130. "They order a lot of expensive things, like steamed cobra," he says, "but then they don't actually eat very much...