Per se - New York - 10

10 Columbus Circle (at 60th Street), 4th Floor, New York, NY 10019, USA
++1 212 823 9335
http://www.perseny.com/

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Per Se is a restaurant located at Columbus Circle in New York, New York, on the fourth floor of the Time Warner Center. The owner is Thomas Keller who is also involved in the restaurants French Laundry and Ad Hoc in Napa Valley, Bouchon, in Napa Valley and Las Vegas, and Bouchon Bakery, which is also located in the Time Warner Center in New York, New York. The chef de cuisine is Jonathan Benno. It opened in February 2004 in the Time Warner Center in New York City. The restaurant features Keller's distinctive hands-on approach, including his focus to detail.

Keller chose restaurant/hotel designer Adam Tihany to draw together subtle references of The French Laundry and elements from both his and Keller's pasts. The blue door entrance is modeled after the blue door at The French Laundry.

The restaurant features a salon, bar, and wine cellar. Like Keller's previous project, The French Laundry, Per Se features two daily prix fixe menus, one of which is vegetarian.
In August 2006, it was one of only three restaurants in the United States to be awarded three stars in the Michelin Guide, along with Joël Robuchon at The Mansion and The French Laundry. They received the same honors in the 2007 and 2008 guides.

In their December 2006 issue, Travel + Leisure Magazine named it one of New York's Top 50 restaurants. . The restaurant has received four stars, the highest rating, from the New York Times. Additionally, it was named as the 9th- best restaurant in the world by Restaurant Magazine.
Per se's former head sommelier, James Hayes is currently the associate beverage director for the Thomas Keller Restaurant Group.
Phoebe Damrosch's Service Included, a non-fiction account of her employment as a waiter at Per Se, was published by William Morrow and Company in September 2007.

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Source - Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_se_(restaurant)

Link to the daily Menu -- http://www.tkrg.org/upload/ps_menu.pdf