• Despite Closing WD~50, Wylie Dufresne Is Keeping Busy These Days

    Wylie Dufresne shocked the restaurant world when he revealed earlier this year that he would be closing his groundbreaking wd~50. After over 11 years spent cooking inventive modernist dishes on New York City’s Lower East Side, Dufresne announced – due to a new real estate development – that the restaurant’s last night of service would…
  • NYC: Menu Design And WD~50

    The restaurant-rattling news that chef Wylie Dufresne was changing the entire menu at his downtown New York City restaurant, WD~50, may have caused heart palpitations to some of his devotees, who have worshipped his brilliantly constructed (and deconstructed) dishes that have pushed to the outer reaches of the molecular gastronomic frontier. But it was also…
  • The Importance Of Menu Design

    With our ever-expanding obsession with food culture, we’ve gorged on essential ingredients, budding brew masters, exotic eateries, and — ok, enough with the alliteration already! — knife wielding techniques. And while the dining experience has been sliced and diced in never-ending ways, there’s one neglected element that’s been right in front of us all this…