P-Wells puts Passard against the wall and warns that ”anyone who serves langoustine carpaccio should be shot.” She goes on to say that L’Arpège is no better than a hospital cafeteria or a “vegetarian cult restaurant of the 1970s.” Her fighting words put us in the mood to revisit Scandal’s The Warrior (it totally holds up), and now we can’t stop imagining that Patricia Wells and Patty “Smyth” might actually be the same person. As Barbra said, “has anyone ever seen them in a room together?” [Patricia Wells]
Bruno Verjus sends a report from Stockholm, where he was on hand to see L’Arpège chef and vegetable fetishist Alain Passard named Best Chef by The White Guide for his “considerable influence on young chefs around the world.” Congrats, Al! [Food Intelligence]
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