Their project, MENU, deconstructs the many ingredients and elements of fine dining with immaculately composed meals are literally shattered into a million pieces. .
Their project, MENU, deconstructs the many ingredients and elements of fine dining with immaculately composed meals are literally shattered into a million pieces.
"Eating slowly emphasizes the act of dining -- as opposed to eating for sustenance -- which includes all of the social elements of a shared meal," Adam Jed told me.
The Tuaregs' agenda is separatism, not ideologically anti-western zealotry, and moderate elements of Ansar Dine have no interest in allowing Islamist fundamentalism to spread.
His namesake restaurant, Jonas, has all the elements of a fine dining experience: a subdued white and gray dining room, a strict dress code (gentlemen, jackets are required) and fixed price menus; but that's as far as the formality goes.
And that, as far as influential taste-makers such as June Platt in Vogue or Agnes Jekyll in her Kitchen Essays were concerned, meant keeping the franglais element of fine dining, but grafting on to it a new American pep, as typified by Wallis Simpson and her whip-thin compatriots.
Combined with elements of contemporary fine dining, imperial dishes ranging from the 15th to the 19th century are served.
Briarfields has good, unfussy rooms, a private path to the beach, and a surprise element of rather special dining.
Taking the practical benefits of the all-inclusive (let's face it, it IS great for families who have the freedom and relief – of knowing that those extra drinks and ice-creams have already been paid for) and marrying its offering with all the elements of a luxury holiday (fine dining being a real focus), the group is making huge strides in sewing up the top-end of this market.
The neo-Classical and Renaissance-style elements of the entrance, bar and dining room remain untouched, but vibrant colors have given way, in Adam Tihany's hands, to neutral ecru, beige and brown.
If the two restaurants' décor, customers and locales are vastly disparate, their core menus and basic concepts are the same, as is another crucial element: the buzz and edge of New York City dining.
