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Pat Saperstein Deputy EditorHorses is the latest incarnation of the historic Sunset Boulevard space where Ye Coach & Horses was stabled for 73 years before becoming the Pikey. It’s been totally transformed since Quentin Tarantino and Tim Roth legendarily scribbled scenes for “Pulp Fiction” on cocktail napkins in the weathered Coach & Horses bar.

Michelin awarded 76 restaurants their stars in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and Westchester.However, this year there are only 68. Since the pandemic hit the city, restaurants that have shuttered number at least 1,000.

The French Laundry, Per Se, a sequel to the best-selling French Laundry Cookbook which, even 21 years after publication, holds as canon for any young chef of ambition. His latest recipes are, he advises, “even more complex than in The French Laundry Cookbook”, a reflection of the advances across not only Keller’s own restaurants since he launched the French Laundry 26 years ago, but across fine dining in general.His French onion soup, for example, an intricate preparation of warm jellied consommé, beef cheek, truffle and Comté mousse, requires an immersion circulator, a chamber vacuum sealer and iSi Siphon, tools rarely seen in a professional kitchen, let alone a domestic one, in 1994.

Did you ever hear the story of how Jimmy Fallon proposed to his wife Nancy Juvonen? The couple told the story during Tuesday's at-home edition of The Tonight Show. After the late-night host purchased a Neil Lane ring, he called up Nancy's father to ask for permission to propose.