posted on April 23, 2011 20:07
Daniel Boulud's desire to meld unexpected ingredients and create dishes you won't see on any other menu make for one of Manhattan's most exquisite eating-out experiences. Daniel also owns Feast & France Catering Company. However today he is considered one of America's leading culinary authorities.
Daniel was raised on his family's farm in the village of St Pierre de Chandieu and he is inspired by rhythm of the seasons and menus driven by fine ingredients. Since arriving in US in 1982, nothing is beyond the Frenchman's imagination. Today his restaurant empire is blossoming, with opening across the world, but for a true taste of the Lyonnaise lion, to Manhattan you must go. Daniel's New York City Restaurant Daniel is a three Michelin star Relais & Chateax member.
While raised on a farm outside of Lyon and trained by renowned French chefs, Boulud made his reputation in New York, first as a chef and most recently a restaurateur. His management company, The Dinex Group, currently includes six restaurants and Feast & Fêtes Catering. His restaurants include Daniel, Café Boulud, DB Bistro Moderne, Bar Boulud, and DBGB Kitchen & Bar in New York City. He has also created Café Boulud in Palm Beach and the Michelin-star Daniel Boulud Brasserie in Las Vegas (since closed)
Boulud set out on his own and opened his restaurant Daniel, in 1993, in Manhattan's Upper Eastside. Daniel relocated the restaurant to a new home in 1998: a Venetian renaissance-inspired setting at Park Avenue and 65th Street—premises, in fact, that had once housed Le Cirque. The original Daniel was re-launched as the Café Boulud.
He opened a more casual restaurant in the theater district of Manhattan in 2001: db Bistro Moderne, and in 2003 a second Café Boulud in Palm Beach, Florida. Daniel Boulud Brasserie opened in 2005 inside the Wynn Las Vegas. In January 2008, the Chef opened Bar Boulud, a French bistro located across from Lincoln Center in New York City.
He opened Maison Boulud à Pékin in Beijing China in July 2008. In December 2008, he reopened Lumière and opened db Bistro Moderne (sister restaurant to db Bistro Moderne in Manhattan) in Vancouver, Canada as Chef, Consulting Chef and Partner, and will open DBGB Kitchen & Bar, a Pan-European brasserie, in New York City later in 2009.