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Adam Platt

  1. Restaurant Review
    Platt: The Elm Is Liebrandt’s Fairy-Tale ForestCorton’s former auteur heads to Williamsburg.
  2. Restaurant Review
    Platt: Three Stars for Brooklyn Artisanal Fare at Luksus; Two Stars for BetonyLuksus serves Brooklyn artisanal fare with minimal pretension.
  3. Omakase
    New York’s Dynamic New Wave of Omakase-Style RestaurantsEntrusting your meal to the whims and talents of the chef.
  4. Restaurant Review
    Platt: Estela and the Musket Room Are Modest Bar-Restaurants That Excel at BeingThese are small, sneakily sophisticated downtown establishments.
  5. Taste Test
    Adam Platt on Shake Shack’s New, ‘Fresh’ FriesOur resident restaurant critic heads over to Danny Meyer’s burger chain to see if his newfangled fries are better than the crinkle-cut originals.
  6. Restaurant Review
    Platt: Two Stars for the Home-Cooked Thai at Uncle Boons; No Stars for CostataMatt Danzer and Ann Redding’s new restaurant is the next best thing to hopping a plane to Bangkok, while Michael White’s new steakhouse proves formulaic.
  7. Great Noise Boom
    Platt: Why Restaurants Are Louder Than EverA look at the most disruptive restaurant trend over the past decade.
  8. Restaurant Review
    Platt: The Taco Gets the Vongerichten Treatment at ABC CocinaUnlike ABC Kitchen, ABC Cocina seems to have been designed more for grazing than for a sit-down dinner.
  9. Restaurant Review
    Platt: Alder and Pearl & Ash Deliver More Than They PromiseWylie Dufresne tries simplified cuisine, while Richard Kuo brings a “progressive wine bar” to the Bowery.
  10. Summer Guide 2013
    Umami Burger Comes to New York, Armed With One Addictive IngredientBut how will it fare in New York’s competitive burger climate?
  11. Restaurant Review
    Platt: Lafayette Brings a Big Menu, Big Space, and Big Ideas to the BrasserieAndrew Carmellini’s latest venture is almost perfectly timed to catch the wave of French-food nostalgia that has been building, these last several months, all over city.
  12. Restaurant Review
    Platt: Fusion-Inspired Montmartre Redeems Itself After a Few Menu TweaksGabriel Stulman has built an impressive dining empire in a short time by doing things the traditional way.
  13. Restaurant Review
    Platt: Herculean Portions and a Fervid Fan Base Define Carbone“This place is like Il Mulino for hipsters.”
  14. Restaurant Review
    Adam Platt on the Reimagined Traditional Spanish Cuisine at Cata and ManzanillaLarry Baldwin’s tapas joint infuses classic recipes with a combination of old-fashioned elegance and modern heft, while a big-box brasserie seems depressingly familiar.
  15. In Conversation
    In Conversation: Michael Pollan and Adam PlattThe original promoter of the ethically minded, locally grown approach to feeding ourselves holds forth on his favorite junk food, his microbial menagerie, and the evils lurking in a tube of Go-Gurt.
  16. Restaurant Review
    Platt: Harlow and Bill’s Food and Drink Evoke a Bygone Era in DiningGlitzy restaurants used to pop up all over town during the go-go years, but in this grimly post-crash era, they’ve been few and far between.
  17. Restaurant Review
    Platt: Graydon Carter Turns the Beatrice Inn Into His Latest Neo-SpeakeasyOver the years, he’s had much better luck replicating this carefully calibrated formula than finding decent chefs.
  18. Restaurant Review
    Platt: Two Stars Apiece for Hanjan and MaysvilleAt Hanjan, Hooni Kim updates the traditional Korean tavern, and Maysville is a stealthily good restaurant built around the pleasures of a stiff drink.
  19. Restaurant Review
    Platt on the Return of Lobster Thermidor at Le Philosophe and the TourondelLe Philosophe, like several next-generation bistros in town, is reimagining French classics, while the former BLT restaurants chef is back in the big-money steakhouse racket.
  20. Restaurant Review
    Platt: At the Marrow, Harold Dieterle Mines His Two Ancestral CuisinesThis German-and-Italian fusion restaurant is slightly schizophrenic.
  21. Restaurant Review
    Platt: Aska Is a More Sophisticated, Worldly Operation Than It SeemsThe cooks at this little Williamsburg restaurant do an admirable job with what they have of making you feel connected to the edifying culinary variety that’s available in the great outdoors.
  22. Restaurant Review
    Platt: The Celebrated Daniel Humm Reinvents Eleven Madison Park—AgainAs you may have heard, Eleven Madison has recently ditched its à la carte concept altogether in favor of an elaborate prix fixe tasting extravaganza.
  23. Restaurant Review
    Platt: At Tribeca Canvas, the Once Over-the-Top Morimoto Scales DownThis is not the kind of restaurant we’re used to seeing from the glamorous Iron Chef and sushi master.
  24. The DirectoryAcme 9 Great Jones St. 212-203-2121
  25. The Ten Best New Restaurants Acme Unlike lots of the monkish locavore joints around town, this downtown bistro manages to be inventive, righteous, and fun at the same time.
  26. The Five Best New ChefsMatthew Lightner Atera When most of his colleagues are hunkered down, playing it safe, it’s refreshing to see a cook shoot for the stars and […]
  27. The Ten Trends We’re Tired OfOverlong Tasting Menus I say cap the course number at ten and the price at $120. And if dinner exceeds four hours, you get half your money back.
  28. The Five Best New DessertsFallen Fruits Acme An inspired, almost poetic combination of seasonal goodness (the fruit) and gourmet ingenuity (the wheatgrass granita).
  29. Adam Platt’s Where to EatThe most delicious food in town, right this minute.
  30. 51. Because Our Museum Cafés Beat Other Cities’ Best Restaurants.There are all sorts of reasons to visit the Prado in Madrid, say, or the Louvre in Paris. But the last time I checked, it wasn’t for the food. I […]
  31. Restaurant Review
    Platt: One Star for Sirio Ristorante and Strip House MidtownThe legendary Le Cirque restaurateur opens a Tuscan-minded hotel outlet, while the Euro-themed steakhouse’s empire expands.
  32. Restaurant Review
    Platt: At L’Apicio, Small-Space Masters Gabe Thompson and Joe Campanale Go BigBy Thompson and Campanale’s tiny, Mini Cooper standards, L’Apicio is a huge Rolls-Royce of a place.
  33. Restaurant Review
    Platt: The Uptown Iteration of Il Mulino Pales Next to the West Village OriginalLike lots of long-running productions, it’s undermined, in the end, by its own formulaic success.
  34. Restaurant Review
    Platt: Gaonnuri Aims to Raise the Bar on Standard Koreatown JointsWith its gently thrumming disco soundtrack and panoramic skyscraper views, the modish dining room feels like something from the set of Lost in Translation.
  35. Restaurant Review
    Platt: Two Stars for the New Madison Avenue Outlet of Salumeria Rosi ParmacottoLike the original West Side outlet, this restaurant features a glimmering display of Parmacotto products.
  36. Any Food in a StormThe power of Pringles and chicken soup.
  37. Restaurant Review
    Platt: Despite Appeareances to the Contrary, Angolo Soho Is No Tourist TrapThis homey neighborhood restaurant from Da Silvano veteran Emilio Bagnoli is not just for out-of-town shopper.
  38. Restaurant Review
    Platt: Ootoya Offers a Down-to-Earth Alternative to Expensive SushiAnd elaborate omakase feasts.
  39. Restaurant Review
    Platt: Three Stars for Blanca, Roberta’s Upscale Tasting RoomThe smaller, more willfully obscure the restaurant, the more people will be clamoring to get in.
  40. Restaurant Review
    Platt: Greek Modern at Amali; Governor Feels Slightly Off-KeyMy mother grew up in a genteel, mostly vanished world where the best restaurants lived long and prosperous lives.
  41. expert opinion
    Tips for Justin Timberlake on Playing a New York Mag Food CriticFrom New York’s food critic, Adam Platt.
  42. Restaurant Review
    Platt on the Retooled South American Joint RaymiIn the old Nuela space, a retooled South American joint.
  43. Restaurant Review
    Platt: Battersby Continues the Culinary Power Shift to the EastOnce again, Brooklyn eats Manhattan’s lunch.
  44. Restaurant Review
    Platt: At Rosemary’s, the Village Trattoria Meets the Rooftop Garden (With“As dinner progresses in the jammed, increasingly riotous space, however, the food at Rosemary’s takes a more prosaic turn.”
  45. Restaurant Review
    Platt on East Village Brasserie CalliopeIt may not be suited to the East Village, but its perfectly executed bistro dishes would be tasty anywhere.
  46. Restaurant Review
    Platt on Pok Pok Ny and Mission Chinese FoodA pair of beloved West Coast restaurants open outposts in New York.
  47. Cheap Eats
    Adam Platt Rates the City’s Cheapest FoodOur chief restaurant critic on the virtues (or lack thereof) of a 75-cent slice, a $4.30 steak, and more.
  48. Restaurant Review
    Platt: The Hip Hotel Restaurant Comes to BrooklynOur restaurant critic on Reynards and Back Forty West.
  49. Picnics
    Platt Judges New York’s First-Ever Ultimate Picnic ChallengeThree chefs duke it out for alfresco supremacy.
  50. Restaurant Review
    Hakkasan Is Ruby Foo’s for Rich PeopleThe New York version of the famous London Chinese restaurant is dark, overwrought, and preposterously expensive.
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