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|  | |  |   | | A friend and I were overdue for a “catch-up” dinner, and I suggested Etats-Unis. I had good memories of the restaurant when I dined there about a year ago, and the neighborhood was convenient.Everything that made Etats-Unis worthwhile then is true now, but we had a peculiar experience. My friend ask... Read More | | |  |   | | Etats-Unis is an informal 30-seat restaurant on the Upper East Side—and the unexpected recipient of a Michelin star. It is one of the most accessible, and least pretentious, restaurants to have been accorded that honor.The restaurant opened in 1991. After a less-than-ecstatic Diner’s Journal writ... Read More | | |  |   | | Perhaps it was an off Monday night, but I felt Etats-Unis was a little overrated. Service was attentive, but food was a little salty. Read More | | |  |   | | Jonathan Rapp, who for a decade helped run Michelin-starred Etats-Unis with his dad, had screwed up pretty blindly. He had wanted to strike out on his own, make a name for himself, start an exciting restaurant in a place that really needed it: rural Connecticut. Rapp was a self-proclaimed bit-of-a-... Read More | | |  |   | | Residents of Marfa, Texas (and its throngs of visitors) have a lot to look forward to in 2008, when its Ballroom Drive-In is slated to open. Josh Siegel, a film and media curator from New York City's Museum of Modern Art, has organized the initial film series for the open-air theater; in the works i... Read More | | |  |   | | View From Outside Jewel Bako [Flickr/kev/null] · Short Menus, Like At Etats-Unis Can Be Problematic [BruniBlog] · Batali v. Bittman Pasta Saucing Smackdown [SE] · Irving Mill Opening Party Was Sans Food [Thorn] · Applebee’s Serving CakeMan Raven’s Red Velvet Cake in BK [NY... Read More | | |  |
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