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Tagged: Clover Club

Restaurant Review Recap

Benoit, Hundred Acres, Alloro

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  • New York's Adam Platt spanks Alain Ducasse's new brasserie Benoit with a zero-star review. Some of his least favorite dishes? The lobster ravioli (a "viscous mess"), cassoulet (tastes like it was "preheated in a microwave"), and the steak tartare ("dressed with enough horseradish to choke a cow.") [NYM]
  • The Times' Frank Bruni wasn't quite as unhappy, handing over a single star. Bruni found the baguettes "adorable" and the halibut "delicious," but couldn't excuse the place for bungling the "must-ace dish" of roasted chicken. [NYT]
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Resto Review Recap

Bar Milano, Brasserie 44, Rusty Knot

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  • It's thanks to dishes like the "superb" rabbit terrine that the Times' Frank Bruni awards two stars to Bar Milano, even though the Murray Hill northern Italian restaurant "bungles its pasta dishes,"  has "awful acoustics," and is "slickness incarnate." [NYT]
  • The Post's Steve Cuozzo gives thumbs-ups to the "luscious" food at John McDonald's Brasserie 44 at the Royalton, but warns patrons to beware "the psychic toll of traversing the losers' lounge that was previously Manhattan's sexiest hotel space." [NYP]
  • The New Yorker's Lauren Collins is the latest to make mincemeat out of Robert De Niro's Ago, "the most cynical California import since Euro Disney." [New Yorker]
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