When you think of tenacity and Daniel Boulud, maybe you think of the effort it takes to keep up four-star restaurant Daniel, launch Bar Boulud, or generally run a multi-national food empire. But no: the Boulud project that seems to have required the most effort in recent years is opening a restaurant on the Bowery. [...]

Eater has just released photos of the new Daniel Boulud restaurant DBGB Kitchen & Bar, to open on the Bowery in two weeks time. Apparently the place is “meant to evoke the restaurant supply stores that are fast going extinct on the Bowery,” but it looks like an army barracks. Even after construction is finished, [...]

When Knucklehead was going to be too late to join us at a recent dinner at Bar Boulud, High Maintenance suggested he meet us afterwards at the bar. “Oh no,” I said. “There’s not actually a bar there.” Therein lies the conundrum of Bar Boulud – and many other new places about town. Dining at [...]

The proliferation of “chain” restaurants in New York can be unsettling. I don’t mean Ruths Chris or the Olive Garden – disturbing in and of their own right – but the high-end type like the BLT empire. What isn’t a chain these days? Will Daniel Boulud endure criticism at Bar Boulud for starting up yet [...]