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...Mimi Soltner, 78, in Guebwiller...
...Soltner's little boy Andre is still cooking, and how! Now 53, he has spent almost half of his life in the kitchen of Lutece, the luxury town-house restaurant on Manhattan's East Side that this year is celebrating its 25th birthday. The chef since Lutece opened on Feb.16, 1961, and the sole proprietor since 1972, Soltner has cooked his way to culinary glory. Despite a $100-a-person average check for dinner, and a $50 counterpart at lunch, reservations for one of the 29 tables must be made one month in advance...
Despite such accolades, and the attendant financial success, Soltner remains modest and has a tendency to run scared. "I worry most about the high prices we have to charge because our costs keep going up. Even rich people have a breaking point. I tell my staff to be very, very careful with customers. Today we are on top, but tomorrow who knows...
...course, mes chers, you will stay away from such spots and follow Gault-Millau to the very special places of New York and, indeed, l'Amérique. Say your prayers and hope that André Soltner may accommodate you at Lutèce, by any measure one of the world's finest French restaurants. The authors rate equally high The Four Seasons, where vraiment the courtesy, the ambience, the efficiency as well as the food are "an amazement." Be adventurous like your French ancestors there: cross the bridge and dine in le vrai Brooklyn, at the Continental...
...Lieb's published remark about Lutèce's frozen turbot, that accusation stirred temblors in Manhattan stockpots. Lutece's Chef Andre Soltner indignantly produced fish market receipts to show one and all that his turbot was fresh. Lieb apologized, and the usually meticulous New Yorker, accused of publishing a canard, explained that to preserve Otto's anonymity, it had taken the exceptional step of allowing the author of the piece to do most of the checking...