The chef at one of the world’s most elevated restaurants even reconsidered the place of high-end ingredients in our diets. “All the caviar that you find now, it’s farm-raised, they sell it at the airport. Is that truly luxury?” Humm says. “Kobe beef flown in from Japan? That’s not luxury. It’s gluttony.”
The shift away from meat is part of a broader transformation in diets, at a time when people are increasingly considering meat’s impact on the environment and their own health.
Humm has used vegetables as a meat replacement at Eleven Madison Park before. In 2012, his menu featured a carrot tartare as a steak alternative, made tableside by grinding carrots from the Union Square farmers market with little bowls of condiments.
The high-end restaurant Eleven Madison Park is going vegan.
Throughout the pandemic, Eleven Madison Park has been preparing food boxes for needy families. The new plant-based iteration of the restaurant will help sustain efforts like those, said its chef, Daniel Humm.Credit.Lucas Jackson/Reuters
May 4, 2021
Eleven Madison Park, the Manhattan restaurant that has been called the best in the world, will serve an all-plant-based menu when it reopens after more than a year of being closed because of the pandemic.
Daniel Humm, Eleven Madison Park’s chef, said the decision is the result of a yearslong re-evaluation about where his career was headed, which reached its breaking point during the pandemic.
New York Is Reopening Sooner Rather Than Later
It’s Tuesday.
Weather: Showers early, then gradually clearing, but the rain returns in the evening, with scattered thunderstorms. High in the upper 60s.
Alternate-side parking: In effect until May 13 (Solemnity of the Ascension).
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Restaurants and stores may soon look like more like their old (crowded) selves. New York, once the worst hot spot for the coronavirus in the nation, is set to reopen this month, sooner than expected.
Last week, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that he wanted New York City to fully reopen by July 1. On Monday, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, who has the authority to set reopening rules, announced a faster timetable: Stores, theaters, museums and restaurants will be allowed to run at almost full capacity on May 19 for the first time since March 2020, he said.
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