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| | Veritas | | | “Yes, the wine cellar is unparalleled, but thanks to talented chef Scott Bryan, the kitchen more than holds its own.” —nymag | | Cuisine: French |
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| | | | | | Ten years ago, Park. B. Smith figured out that if he opened one bottle a day from his massive wine collection, it would take 119 years to drink it all. It was that scary thought that led him to open Veritas, the lovely 65-seat wine-themed restaurant in the Flatiron District.Acclaim came quickly, w... Read More | | | | | | Following a tip, a correspondent has some troubling news from the suddenly closed Veritas: "It's quite apparent that Veritas is closed until further notice. They say in their notice that they are closed for just one night for emergency repairs, but there was NO movement inside the restaurant ... Read More | | | | | | Breathing Room New York City Entry #102 Veritas Whenever I fly, I think about New York restaurants. The same economic malaise that has turned jets into cattle cars has transformed many restaurants, even those with soaring aspirations, into sardine cans. Perhaps one can understand this desire wit... Read More | | | | | | Eater reports that Veritas chef Ed Cotton has been fired. Gregory Pugin, currently sous chef at L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon, will be replacing him.There’s no doubt that Cotton is gone: his name is now completely banished from the Veritas website. The second half of the story is mere rumor, but b... Read More | | | | | | Every Manhattan restaurant that falls out of fashion becomes unfashionable in its own way. I'm sure that if Tolstoy been a restaurant critic, he would have said that. In the case of Veritas, a Flatiron District stalwart for nearly 10 years, the immediate cause was the loss of highly regarded chef Sc... Read More | | | | | | Good news coming from Gramercy: Management at Veritas has contacted us to let us know that they have completed their emergency repairs and will be open normal hours from here on out. They needed to complete a hood repair in the kitchen and finished up the work yesterday. · Renovation/Shutter... Read More | | | | | | [Pigging by Wilfrid: July 14, 2008]Scott Bryan manned the barricades at Veritas from its 1999 opening (when my entire dinner was comped, after the first-week service had misdirected their first attempt at it to a neighboring table) until he departed last year, fetching up only this month at Lever Ho... Read More | | | | | | My college friend Kristen of the food blog Give Me Some Food came to town recently with her mother and the two of them were kind enough to take me and our friend Ricky out to dine at a wine lover's dream restaurant: Veritas. Here's Kristen's write-up of the meal, including an account of the rest ... Read More | | | | | | [Pigging by Wilfrid: June 9, 2008]I finally gave way to curiosity about how the kitchen at Veritas was faring without founding chef Scott Bryan - and I gave way at just the wrong moment. No sooner had I hitched myself to the bar one quiet evening and worked through a nice dinner, than Bryan's ... Read More | | | | | | [Pigging by Wilfrid: November 17, 2008]Veteran readers will remember my rave about the tête de veau at L'Atelier de Robuchon, which I nominated as my best Manhattan dish of 2007. It's back, courtesy of the very same chef who prepared this heavenly puck of headmeat and jelly at Robuchon's pl... Read More | | | |
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