Amazing to see Drew Nieporent looking almost svelte. How did he lose 80 pounds? “I don’t eat anything white,” he says. You think getting a table at Nobu is a bitch? When Drew discovered he would be seated in upstairs Siberia at Taillevent on his Paris getaway, he got Daniel Boulud to email Taillevent patron Jean-Claude Vrinat a plea explaining Nieporent’s credentials for a V.I.P. spot in the dining room.

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