Review
Like blockbuster films, many New York restaurants with big-name chefs like to open with red carpet fanfare. Shang was no exception. more →
Like blockbuster films, many New York restaurants with big-name chefs like to open with red carpet fanfare. Shang was no exception. more →
For more than 20 years Susur Lee has been the face of high-end culinary dazzle in his adopted Canadian hometown. more →
Lobster, white snapper and oxtail soups; cucumber salad; onion fritters; octopus with tomatillo; steamed spinach tofu with mushrooms; taro puffs with curried beef; lamb chops; almond panna cotta; sorbets.
Sushi snobs have their Masa, rotund Italians have Mario and Mike White, and the Greenmarket aristocrats have Dan Barber, Thomas Keller, and the ubiquitous Tom Colicchio. So you can forgive certain members of the city’s long-suffering, increasingly cranky band of Chinese-food nuts for treating Susur Lee, who landed in our midst a couple of months ago from Canada by way of Hong Kong, as that most elusive and longed-for New York food demigod: the Chinese superstar chef. more →