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Thursday, November 17, 2011

2011 Food Issue: Inside the restaurant industry

Posted by Besha Rodell on Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 11:06 AM

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Our annual Food Issue hits the streets and the internets today. This year, rather than focus on our city's restaurants through the experience of dining, we decided to focus on the experience of the people in the industry themselves. We spoke to some of our most promising young sous chefs, had a roundtable discussion with a group of bartenders (check out Dustin Chambers' video that leads the article), and profile five veteran servers. I also spent a day with the folks at Empire State South, documenting what it's like to keep a breakfast, lunch and dinner operation going. I particularly love Dustin Chambers' stop motion video of Empire State's dining room, made up of still images, shot one every minute for 24 hours, and there's a fantastic slideshow by Dustin Chambers and James Camp to accompany the day-in-the-life article.

So here's to the cooks, the bartenders and the servers. I hope the rest of you like it as well.

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Wonderful work by Messrs Chambers and Camp. ESS rocks. Last time i was there, three huge parties stayed at their tables for an hour after their plates were cleared. How can a host(ess) predict that? Other folks with reservations left in a huff, and we were tempted to, but then had a moment of clarity and chilled. For waiting we were comped so many appetizer we didn't have to order anything. But of course we did and tipped like crazy

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