Eleven Madison Park

February 14, 2010 at 6:51 PM Leave a comment

This year marked a milestone birthday for me, and I commemorated the day with dinner at Eleven Madison Park. We began with cocktails at the bar, sat down at our table at 8:45, wavered between the “Three-Course Prix Fixe” and the eleven-course “Gourmand,” and lumbered out the doors, eleven courses later, around 1:00 AM. The Gourmand is a blind tasting, meaning chef’s selection, no written menu. Kudos Daniel Humm—our meal was superb. The restaurant sent me home with two boxes of petit fours and this personalized print of the menu: