Daniel Boulud

Daniel Boulud (born 25 March 1955 in Saint-Pierre-de-Chandieu) is a French chef and restaurateur with restaurants in New York City, Boston, Washington, D.C., Palm Beach, Miami, Toronto, Montréal, London, and Singapore. He is best known for the eponymously named restaurant Daniel, in New York City, which has two Michelin stars.

Daniel Boulud
Born (1955-03-25) 25 March 1955
Saint-Pierre-de-Chandieu, France
Culinary career
Cooking styleFrench cuisine
Websitewww.danielboulud.com

While raised on a farm outside of Lyon and trained by a variety of French chefs, Boulud made his reputation in New York, first as a chef and most recently a restaurateur. His management company, The Dinex Group, currently includes fifteen restaurants, three locations of a gourmet grocery (Epicerie Boulud) and Feast & Fêtes Catering. His restaurants include Daniel, Café Boulud, db bistro moderne, Bar Boulud, DBGB Kitchen & Bar, and Boulud Sud.

Culinary background

At fifteen, Boulud earned his first professional recognition as a finalist in France's competition for Best Culinary Apprentice. Boulud worked in France with Roger Vergé, Georges Blanc and Michel Guérard and later in Copenhagen before becoming the private chef to the European Commission in Washington, D.C.

After moving to New York City, Boulud opened the Polo Lounge at The Westbury Hotel, followed by Le Régence at the Hotel Plaza Athenée. From 1986 to 1992, he was a critically acclaimed executive chef at Le Cirque.

Restaurants

Boulud opened Daniel in Manhattan's Upper East Side in 1993, before relocating the restaurant to a Venetian renaissance-inspired setting at Park Avenue and 65th Street in 1998. The original Daniel was re-launched as the Café Boulud. He followed these openings by founding a more casual restaurant in Manhattan's theater district in 2001, and a second-second Café Boulud in Palm Beach, Florida, in 2003. Daniel Boulud Brasserie opened in 2005 inside the Wynn Las Vegas, three years before Bar Boulud, a French bistro opposite New York City's Lincoln Center, was opened in January 2008, the same year he opened Boulud à Pékin in Beijing.

In December 2008, after the departure of founding chef Rob Feenie, Boulud reopened Vancouver restaurants Lumière and Feenie's (renaming the latter "db Bistro Moderne", making it the sister restaurant to db Bistro Moderne in Manhattan). Boulud became the chef, consulting chef and co-partner.[1] The two restaurants were closed on 13 March 2011,[1] two years after opening DBGB Kitchen & Bar, a Pan-European brasserie, in New York City.[2][3][4] In 2009, Boulud also announced that he was looking to start his next venture in London. Bar Boulud London opened on May 29, 2010 inside the Mandarin Oriental Hotel on Knightsbridge, becoming the first Boulud's restaurant in Europe.[5]

Daniel Boulud Brasserie closed on 4 July 2010, when Wynn chose not to renew the contract between Boulud & The Resort (see Wynn Las Vegas for more). In 2013, it was confirmed that the restaurant would re-open at The Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas in Spring of 2014.[6]

2011 saw many new Bolud openings, including a db Bistro Moderne at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore,[7] a Maison Boulud in Ritz-Carlton Montreal,[8] as well as Boulud Sud next to Bar Boulud,[9] and Épicerie Boulud, a market/deli. In the following year, d|bar opened in the Four Seasons Hotel Toronto,[10] while Bar Boulud Boston opened on 16 September 2014 inside the Mandarin Oriental Hotel Boston. A third location of Epicerie Boulud then opened in the Oculus World Trade Center in November 2016.[11]

Around 2018, Bouloud collaborated with a group of MIT entrepreneurs to create Spyce Kitchen, a robotic restaurant in Boston. He was responsible for the menu while the founders came up with the technology. The restaurant serves bowl-based meals using healthy ingredients like grains, beans, and kale.

Awards

Both Daniel Boulud and his restaurants have received a number of awards. Daniel has been rated one of the top ten restaurants in the world by the International Herald Tribune, received Gourmet's Top Table Award, a four-star rating from The New York Times, Wine Spectator's Grand Award, and New York City's top ratings for cuisine, service and decor in the Zagat Survey. The flagship New York City restaurant was awarded three Michelin stars in the 2010 Michelin, the book's highest rating.[12] As of August 28, 2012, he had 4 Michelin Stars in total[13] and in January 2013, Daniel NYC was inducted into Culinary Hall of Fame.[14] The restaurant, however, lost its third Michelin star in 2015 for "a lack of consistency".[15]

Boulud himself has been named Chef of the Year by Bon Appétit, and received the James Beard Award for Best Chef of New York City in 1992 while Executive Chef at Le Cirque. The James Beard Foundation also recognized him as "Outstanding Chef of the Year" in 1994 and "Outstanding Restaurateur" in 2006 for restaurant Daniel. In April 2007 he received the Culinary Humanitarian Award at the United Nations from the Adopt-a-Mine Field Foundation. The President of France made Boulud a Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur in March 2006 in recognition for his contribution to the advancement of French culture. Boulud also won the International Outstanding Achievement Award at the 2015 The Catey Awards.

Television

Boulud previously hosted "After Hours with Daniel" a behind-closed-doors look at the late night dinners, by chefs and for chefs. The series revealed where chefs go to unwind after a night behind the stove and uncovered the foods they crave and cook for each other. The first season was filmed in New York City restaurants and the second, on the West Coast, in Los Angeles restaurants. The third season of the show featured restaurants in the New Orleans and Miami culinary scene.

Boulud has also been a featured chef on Great Chefs television,[16] and appeared in the second-season finale of the Canadian television program Anna & Kristina's Grocery Bag, where his cookbook Chef Daniel Boulud: Cooking in New York City was being tested. Boulud appeared as the guest judge along with chefs from his restaurants located in Vancouver: Stephane Istel, executive chef at DB Bistro Moderne & Dale MacKay, executive chef at Lumière. Boulud's cookbook received the "A & K Stamp of Approval" at the end of the episode.[17]

Boulud appeared as a guest judge in Season 1 and 3 of Top Chef Canada.[18]

Boulud appeared as himself in the television drama series Billions, episode "Flaw in the Death Star", season 3.

Community involvement

Daniel Boulud works to support several charities focusing his efforts on hunger relief and culinary education. He has been the board Co-President of Citymeals-on-Wheels since 2003 and hosts an annual gala for the charity each spring. This non-profit organization that provides home-delivered, nutritious meals to frail, homebound elderly in New York City. On 13 April 2008 Daniel Boulud hosted an intimate Sunday supper to mark the 10th anniversary of Savoring Citymeals, an annual gourmet event he has hosted since 1998.

The Daniel Boulud Scholarship Endowment Fund was established by the chef's business partner, Joel Smilow, in 2005. The fund provides education enabling promising young American cooks to pursue professional culinary studies in France.

In 2008, Paul Bocuse asked Boulud to establish a structure for the selection of the Bocuse d'Or Team USA, who along with Thomas Keller and Jérôme Bocuse form the Board of Directors of the Bocuse d'Or USA Foundation. The first Bocuse d'Or USA competition was held in September 2008.[19][20]

Mr. Boulud settled with the workers, seven current and former employees of Latin American and Bangladeshi descent, for $80,000 and agreed to set up standards and procedures for promotions to be overseen by the EEOC & the state attorney general's office.[21][22]

Books
  • Cooking with Daniel Boulud (1993)
  • Daniel Boulud’s Café Boulud Cookbook (1999)
  • In 2001, Boulud allowed author Leslie Brenner near unlimited access to Daniel the result was the 2002 book The Fourth Star: Dispatches from Inside Daniel Boulud's Celebrated New York Restaurant which gives some insight into the workings of the chef and how he operates.
  • Daniel Boulud Cooking in New York City (2002)
  • Daniel’s Dish, Entertaining at Home with a Four Star Chef (2003)
  • Letters to a Young Chef (2003)
  • Braise: a Journey Through International Cuisine (2006)
  • Daniel – My French Cuisine by Daniel Boulud (Author), Sylvie Bigar (Author), Thomas Schauer (Photographer), Bill Buford (Contributor) (2013)

References
  1. Mia Stainsby (2011-02-28). "'Alive for your own funeral': Doors closing at high-end restaurants Lumiere, db Bistro Moderne". Vancouver Sun. Archived from the original on 2011-03-05. Retrieved 2011-03-01.
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-01-31. Retrieved 2009-11-17.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Chef Daniel Boulud Lumière Vancouver Dinex Group
  3. Lumière: The Chef and Restaurant Database (ChefDb)
  4. Daniel Boulud: The Chef and Restaurant Database (ChefDb)
  5. Sharkey, Gemma (June 22, 2009). "Michelin-starred chef Daniel Boulud set to open restaurant In London". Caterersearch.com. Archived from the original on June 25, 2009. Retrieved June 26, 2009.
  6. deJesus, Erin (26 December 2013). "Boulud's Vegas Plans Change from DBGB to DB Brasserie". Eater. Retrieved 27 November 2018.
  7. Lethlean, John; Wilden, Necia (February 22, 2011). "Has a Kiwi chef has found a way out of Ramsay's Maze?". The Australian. Retrieved April 25, 2011.
  8. "Maison Bouloud". Homepage Ritz-Carlton Montreal.
  9. "The Feed first look: Boulud Sud". newyork.timeout.com. TimeOut.
  10. "George Christy Talks About The Toronto International Film Festival, Ben Affleck, Robert Redford, The Four Seasons Hotels And More!". Beverly Hills Courier. Archived from the original on 2012-09-18.
  11. Diez, Patty (2016-11-08). "Daniel Boulud Opens Third Location of Epicerie Boulud". Eater NY. Retrieved 2016-11-18.
  12. Fabricant, Florence (October 7, 2009). "Boulud Joins Michelin Pantheon". The New York Times. Retrieved April 30, 2010.
  13. MasterChefUS (2012-08-28), MasterChef US - S03Ep18, retrieved 2017-12-09
  14. Culinary Hall of Fame Induction
  15. Fabricant, Florence (September 30, 2014). "New Michelin Guide Has New York Star-Studded: Michelin Guide Upgrades Aquavit, Blanca and Ichimura to Two Stars, Daniel Loses Third Star". The New York Times. Retrieved October 4, 2014.
  16. Great Chefs Television
  17. Annaandkristina.com article on "Chef Daniel Boulud: Cooking in New York City" episode of Anna & Kristina's Grocery Bag Archived 2011-10-05 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved on July 1, 2011
  18. "Top Chef Canada recap, episode 3: the Boulud touch". Archived from the original on 2013-07-15. Retrieved 2013-07-12.
  19. Lucchesi, Paolo, Eater.com (29 May 2008). Now Is the Time for All Good Chefs to Come to the Aid of Their Country: Daniel Boulud
  20. Reuters.com (September 28, 2008). Bocuse d'Or USA Announces Winner
  21. "Manhattan Restaurant to Settle EEOC National Origin Bias Suit- U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission New York District Office Press Release 31" (PDF). The New York Times. 31 July 2007. Retrieved 27 November 2018.
  22. Ellick, Adam B. (31 July 2007). "Boulud Settling Suit Alleging Bias at a French Restaurant". The New York Times. Retrieved 27 November 2018.

Further reading
  • Feast & Fetes covered in New York Parties - Private Views by Jamee Gregory - Nov 2010
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