Jean Georges Vongerichten

• Jean-Georges Vongerichten prepared halibut for Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, George HW Bush, and Jimmy Carter at the United Nations last night. Security was so tight that only the chef and one assistant were allowed in the kitchen. ...

  USA Did you work at a Jean Georges Vongerichten restaurant between September 2, 2001 and February 11, 2008? If so, you may be entitled to a share of a class-action settlement. Back in 2007, several former employees alleged that staff at several ...

  USA Sweetbreads have popped up on the menu (served with a romesco purée), and the hamachi crudo is spiced with little shavings of jalapeño, the way Jean Georges likes to prepare it uptown. There's also a very nice Thai beef salad on Apiary's new appetizer ...

  USA Jean-Georges Vongerichten plans to open ten new restaurants worldwide this year now that he and partner Phil Suarez have teamed up with Starwood Hotels, but he still devotes plenty of time to New York. A version of his Paris restaurant, Market, ...

  USA “Restaurants are giving away food for free,” says Lois Freedman, who runs the four-star Jean Georges, along with Jean-Georges Vongerichten's other city restaurants. “The volume is up, but there is a great reduction in revenue. ...

  USA - Adam Platt Isidori and his staff won a Michelin star catering to assorted fat cats and big-money whales at DJT, in the Trump Las Vegas hotel (along with Jean-Georges, Isidori also catered The Donald's latest wedding), which means, presumably, ...

  USA Work for small restaurants make yourself present, do not stay under the shadow of a David Burke, Daniel Boulud or a Jean-Georges. Be yourself, work with the spanish people, people that are going to respect you because you work as hard as they do. ...

  USA There are properly crumbly, cinnamon-flavored beef empanadas, too, croquettes stuffed with veal terrine, and mini Jean Georges–style tuna tacos filled with sashimi-grade tuna belly and a hint of pickled jalapeño. More of these tapas dishes are ...

  USA Times Topics/NYT] • Jean-Georges Vongerichten wants to use his company, Culinary Concepts, to create an haute cuisine chain with the market presence of mcdonald's. [Fortune] • Katie Lee Joel is rumored to be opening Logan County, a restaurant ...

  USA “The pies will only need to rotate once to be perfectly cooked,” says oven builder Nobile Attie, who’s also done work for Jean-Georges Vongerichten and Peasant’s Frank DeCarlo. In addition to twenty kinds of pizza, from Margherita to ...

  USA Jean-Georges Vongerichten loves his weekend home in Waccabuc, where he drives a pickup truck, takes "big naps," and is considering getting some chickens to raise from Martha Stewart. [WSJ] • A new iPhone app called Locavore helps users find the nearest ...

Chef Hung Nguyen, meanwhile, was trained under David Bouley and Jean Georges Vongerichten, and his menu is all about delicate but notably westernized dishes: Vietnamese bouillabaisse with king prawns, grilled marinated pork loin with ...

JoJo This is where Über-chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten first captured the American imagination. It’s less formal and less expensive than Jean Georges and Perry Street, but although the chef is rarely there, his signature tropes are in ...