Per Se

Thomas Keller: It's Tough Out There For a Celebrity Chef

Thomas Keller, Eric Ripert, Jean Georges Vongerichten and Alain Ducasse.
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Thomas Keller, Eric Ripert, Jean Georges Vongerichten and Alain Ducasse.


Last night, Thomas Keller, the chef and owner of impossible-to-penetrate gastronomical temples like Napa’s French Laundry and New York’s Per Se, said he finds the recent celebrity-chef trend rather capricious.  read more »

A Per Se Waiter’s Memoir: No Blood on the Plate

Thomas Keller’s Per Se in the Time Warner Center.
Thomas Keller’s Per Se in the Time Warner Center.

Phoebe Damrosch (or her publisher) tries to serve her cake and eat it too by positioning Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter as a devil-wears-a-toque memoir about working in the dining room at Thomas Keller’s Per Se. Only the highly sensitive could be offended by this tame tell-all.  read more »