July 18, 2008 |
Short Order
All in the family at Persimmon: a gaggle of restaurant critics. Photo: Steven Richter
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Chef Youngsun Lee. Photo: Steven Richter
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It was wall to wall food pros night before last dipping into Momofuku alum Youngsun Lee's $37 five-course prix fixe play on Korean classics at newly hatched Persimmon. And the long wooden communal table only seats 20. Needless to say everyone was trying to be anonymous but I spotted GQ's Alan Richman a backless stool away, with Food Arts' Julie Mautner and civilian Ken Frydman, as I arrived with the Road Food Warrior and restaurant consultant Eddie Schoenfeld and his food writer wife, Elisa, who promptly started chatting with Time Out reviewer Jay Chesches and his companion, the Baroness Sheri de Borchgrave, on the adjacent backless stools. (We traded cards.) For all I know, everyone else at the table was a food blogger too and Eater might have been lurking in the kitchen. Hours later, tall, dashingly handsome Lee personally bowed us out the door, so maybe he knew something fishy was cooking beside his grilled scallops with strawberry kimchee.
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