Eleven Madison Park is one of the top restaurants in the world, and when it reopens post-COVID, it will be ~vegan. elevenmadisonpark.com
This is just inconceivably daring to me—expectations for this echelon are already impossibly high, competition already intensely fierce.
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I'm not vegan, but I've been amazed how much progress has been made in the past decade towards making that choice feel tractable, or like not a huge sacrifice. I think this is how we'll get there eventually, if we do—rather than through old-school guilting. Wizard vs prophet.
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Hopefully it gets healthier though. I’m 6 years vegan now and none of the meat replacement stuff is of interest as they are usually not healthy (at all).
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Interesting. I guess one bummer of a context like this is that it doesn't really aspire to be healthy. After all, EMP's former tasting menus were certainly not! Innovation along that axis may have to come from elsewhere…
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Yep - for sure -- room for both no question. I will say that all longer term vegans I know are mostly exasperated that menus all over are just punting on great/creative house made bean/quinoa/other burgers and just subbing in Beyond/Impossible...it's ruining places for us
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