Latelier de Joel Robuchon - 4 Star Restaurant - View this location on map The great French chef Joel Robuchon makes his New York debut in a back corner of the Four Seasons hotel, where the 20 counter seats (supplemented by about 26 seats at tables) replicate an arrangement and sensibility already deployed at L'Atelier branches in Paris, Tokyo and Las Vegas. It's a bit awkward here, and the hotel intrudes on the restaurant, but L'Atelier handily transcends distractions with refined and often exhilarating food, spanning a layered cake of caramelized eel and smoked foie gras and a precocious pair of Kobe-and-foie-gras sliders that get my vote for haute burger of the new millennium. Frank Bruni - New York Times food critic. 57 East 57th Street, New York, New York Restaurant Latelier de Joel Robuchon - 4 Star Restaurant - View this location on map The great French chef Joel Robuchon makes his New York debut in a back corner of the Four Seasons hotel, where the 20 counter seats (supplemented by about 26 seats at tables) replicate an arrangement and sensibility already deployed at L'Atelier branches in Paris, Tokyo and Las Vegas. It's a bit awkward here, and the hotel intrudes on the restaurant, but L'Atelier handily transcends distractions with refined and often exhilarating food, spanning a layered cake of caramelized eel and smoked foie gras and a precocious pair of Kobe-and-foie-gras sliders that get my vote for haute burger of the new millennium. Frank Bruni - New York Times food critic. Four Seasons Hotel, 57 East 57th Street, New York, New York Restaurant

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