Never a dull moment. While this week's media coverage was heavily dominated by Keith McNally and Nate Appleman's soon to be opened Pulino Pizzeria, there were actually other things also going on in the restaurant world. Florence Fabricant reported for the New York Times yesterday that another well known chef, Laurent Tourondel, (the LT in the BLT chain of restaurants), finds himself out at the very restaurants that bare his name.
Just days shy of their sixth anniversary, Tourondel and his partner Jimmy Haber have divided their restaurants in what they both call an amicable split.
Tourondel will continue to be executive chef at BLT Market in New York and other BLT restaurants that are located in hotels, including among others BLT Burger in Las Vegas and BLT Steak in Miami. The chef says the split was his idea so that he could set out on his own. Seems a little strange, no? Um, the restaurants are named after you!
I thought this was going to be something about bacon :)
ReplyDeleteSo thanks for enlightening me on restaurant world happenings!
ReplyDeleteI don't care who cooks the food - just don't change the lamb burger. Not ba-a-a-a-a-a-d at all! Get it? Ba-a-a-a, like a lamb (or sheep)? No? Whatever.
ReplyDeletePLJ - out.