Roberta's is also more than a restaurant: the grass-fed set has turned it into something of a clubhouse.
Wong stocks the kitchen of his much-lauded restaurant with grass-fed, dry-aged beef (7) from the North Shore Cattle Company.
More and more folks are asking local butchers and restaurants for grass-fed beef; according to a recent study, demand for grass-fed beef is growing by 20percentt each year.
I SPENT the night in Furnace Creek, at the modest Ranch at Furnace Creek, which has three restaurants, a spring-fed pool, a mining museum and access to the lowest golf course on the planet.
This scenario reflects restaurant food.
Paschal's Restaurant, the linoleum-floored diner that fed and sheltered the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other titans of civil rights battles, is about to close.
Chef Thomasina Miers wants to talk about food - not the food served up in her Mexican restaurant chain Wahaca, but the food fed to Britain's pigs.
The restaurant moved this year to a former spring-fed bathhouse known as the Spa Building, said to have been damned by Indian spirits enraged at the white man's attempt to profit from the healing waters.
Opened in 1971 by Albert Glassman, personal manager to Bob Dylan and Janis Joplin, it has now been updated into a sleek restaurant selling local fare such as grass-fed filet mignon and beer battered onion rings.
The question that many have about Mr. Rapoport is whether he will be able to combine his passions for grass-fed meat, restaurant-kitchen tricks, and global cocktail fashions with the needs of the working mothers, hard-core entertainers, and novice cooks who are seen as Bon Appétit's core audience.
