Food Network New York City Wine & Food Festival – 2010 NYC Wine & Food Festival Auction
Auction Ends: Oct 15, 2010 05:00 PM EDT

Dining

Per Se Salon Tasting and Signed Ad Hoc Cookbook

Item Number
202
Sold
400 USD to toothdoc
Number of Bids
3  -  Bid History

Item Description

Dine in one of America's most celebrated restaurants inside the Salon at Per Se. Your dining experience for two will live beyond the table as you will also take home a signed copy of Ad Hoc at Home by world renowned chef Thomas Keller. 

Per Se, the much-anticipated restaurant from renowned chef Thomas Keller, debuted in February 2004 in the Time Warner Center complex at Columbus Circle. With striking views of Columbus Circle and Central Park, the dining room is a rare blend of open space and easy intimacy, discreet drama and understated luxury. Offering a 64-seat dining room, a 10-seat private dining room, a lounge, a bar and wine cellar, all presented in a palette of warm neutrals and natural elements, Per Se will refine and redefine the dining experience.

You don't often see the name Thomas Keller mixed with words like "accessible" or "home cook," but with Ad Hoc at Home, the award-winning chef presents a collection of recipes destined for the center of the table at casual family gatherings. Don't throw away your whole notion of "quick and easy," though, as this is still a casual cookbook filtered through the genius mind of the man behind The French Laundry Cookbook, but the sense of whimsy and the pure joy of Keller doing his version of comfort food proves irresistible. The inspiration for his restaurant Ad Hoc was the simple family meals created and served by the staff at his restaurants. As he says in the introduction, "here is food meant to be served from big bowls and platters passed hand to hand at the table." And with dishes like Buttermilk Fried Chicken and Pineapple Upside-Down Cake, who's going to argue with that?

Item Special Note

Additional shipping fee of $25 applies to this item. $250 gift certificate is redeemable in the salon only.

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