Memorial Day: Some good things to read and listen over the long weekend
Noah Tepperberg X Stanza, Interview Magazine Gets a Food Editor, Hamptons Dining and 20 Questions with Keith McNally.
The Stanza sits with Tao’s Noah Tepperberg and if you want to learn a few things about the hospitality business it’s a great 30 minute chat.
Why I’m Breaking Up With Hillstone
Interview Magazine has a new Food Editor who also does some great stuff over at Feed Me, it’s J Lee and the first topic is America’s favorite Hillstone aka Houston’s aka East Hampton Grill, Palm Beach Grill and so on…
The Prophet Pizza recently proposed that there are two types of New Yorkers. Hillstone New Yorkers and Le Veau d’Or New Yorkers. And that if you think you are both, unfortunately, hate to break it to ya, you’re a Hillstone New Yorker. I’m here to say that I’m not a Hillstone New Yorker and as much as I adore Le Veau, I think I’m a different kind of New Yorker. I’m a Yi Ji Shi Mo New Yorker. I’m a Noodle Pudding New Yorker. I’m a Delancy McDonald’s New Yorker. I want the world to be a better place, I want to be a better man. To be better you must be open to change. Hillstone will never change.
All the New Restaurants Opening in the Hamptons This Summer
Where to go to dine and drink Out East by Beth Landman
Thomas Keller asked me to leave the French Laundry. It turned into my most extraordinary night as a critic (sorry paywall on this one but if you can get past it, enjoy)
Keith McNally on the West Village discourse via Feed Me (20 Questions)
“Keith — how would you define sex appeal in hospitality? In a dining room, in a crowd, in a menu?” - Jac
Only deeply unsexual people are able to define sex appeal in hospitality. The truly sexual people do it instead of defining it.