Best meal I ever ate:
That would have to be our recent dinner at Per Se in the private room, with family, to celebrate birthdays and which I spent in labor with contractions every 10 minutes. Was worth it.
My current drink of choice:
Nor'easter at Char No 4, Wine, Hendricks G&T with cucumber
I really wish I could:
convince someone to open a Korean restaurant on Smith St....oh and a Vietnamese place (as opposed to only Bahn Mi)...oh and a kick ass Indian
My "Go-to" dinner party dish:
Offal, lots of offal (pig cheeks, pig heart, veal sweetbreads, oxtails, duck liver)....also Cassoulet, Carbonara, and braises now that winter is coming
My favorite comfort food:
Indian curries, spaghetti carbonara, chili, pad thai, rilletes, braised anything
My top 5 favorite restaurants:
The Fat Duck (UK), The Yew Tree Inn (UK), Hapa Izakaya (Vancouver), Sue Perette (Brooklyn), Per Se (Manhattan)
My most tattered cookbooks:
Bourdain's Les Halles cookbook, Balthazar cookbook
