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| | | BLT Market | | | “Laurent Tourondel's homage to the cult of the artisanal, the farm-raised, and the locally grown in a has all the totems of the new orthodoxy on display like...” —nymag | | Cuisine: American (New), American |
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| | | | | | 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 st... Read More | | | | | | Laurent Tournondel's long awaited BLT Market opens Thursday in the Ritz-Carlton on Central Park South. Note it is dinner only with a 10% discount (indicating preview versus full opening) until September 10. Full press release after the jump.Laurent Tourondel opens BLT Market at The Ritz-Carlton Ne... Read More | | | | | | BLT Market postcard, based on art work displayed in the restaurant You would have every reason to be a little cynical about the opening of yet another “Bistro Laurent Tourondel” restaurant. In a matter of three years, Tourondel has launched almost a dozen of them, the majority being clones of the ... Read More | | | | | | KalinaWe last visited BLT Market on opening week, finding it promising but not yet polished. Since then, the reviews are in, with most of the critics generally favorable (Platt, Cuozzo, Lane, Tables for Two).Frank Bruni issued a peculiar dissent, relegating the restaurant to Dining Briefs (i.e., no... Read More | | | | | | The term “branding” has become the haute restaurateur’s euphemism for “franchising.” The latter is Applebee’s and Bennigan’s; the former Nobu, Craft, and BLT. Both sets have multiple locations, in multiple cities, but those who brand also have celebrity chefs, cookbooks for sale by the hostess stand... Read More | | | | | | Laurent Tourondel has successfully done steak (BLT Steak), seafood (BLT Fish) and like everyone else, a burger joint (BLT Burger). Now, he's jumping on the market bandwagon with BLT Market. A seasonal affair, BLT Market will embrace locally-sourced seasonal produce with a menu that rotates month... Read More | | | | | | Roasted suckling pig was carved for guests at a party held at BLT Market last night photo: Carla Spartos Laurent Tourondel photo: Carla Spartos BLT Market, the latest addition to chef Laurent Tourondel's BLT empire, threw a belate... Read More | | | | | | Laurent Tourondel’s empire was built of single theme restaurants: BLT Steak, BLT Fish, BLT Burger, etc. But BLT Market has been a critical success because of its loose format. One need look no further than one of the highlights of its fall menu, duck breast with a five-spice glaze. “They’re very for... Read More | | | | | | The Department of Consumer Affairs says that (legal) sidewalk cafés are at an all-time high—there are about 1,000 of them in the city. Eating at sidewalk cafés often requires a nice stiff drink to distract yourself from the fact that you're sitting right next to a dumpster or an idling ... Read More | | | | | | MIDTOWN— We have it on semi-good authority (two solid but off the record sources) that David Malbequi, the chef de cuisine—and the man really running the show—at BLT Market will soon leave his post to join team Country. We hear Malbequi has signed on to work in some capacity at the deathwatched rest... Read More | | | |
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