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| | | | | | Ten years ago, Park. B. Smith figured out that if he opened one bottle a day from his massive wine collection, it would take 119 years to drink it all. It was that scary thought that led him to open Veritas, the lovely 65-seat wine-themed restaurant in the Flatiron District.Acclaim came quickly, w... Read More | | | | | | Eater reports that Veritas chef Ed Cotton has been fired. Gregory Pugin, currently sous chef at L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon, will be replacing him.There’s no doubt that Cotton is gone: his name is now completely banished from the Veritas website. The second half of the story is mere rumor, but b... Read More | | | | | | Breathing Room New York City Entry #102 Veritas Whenever I fly, I think about New York restaurants. The same economic malaise that has turned jets into cattle cars has transformed many restaurants, even those with soaring aspirations, into sardine cans. Perhaps one can understand this desire wit... Read More | | | | | | Every Manhattan restaurant that falls out of fashion becomes unfashionable in its own way. I'm sure that if Tolstoy been a restaurant critic, he would have said that. In the case of Veritas, a Flatiron District stalwart for nearly 10 years, the immediate cause was the loss of highly regarded chef Sc... Read More | | | | | | [Pigging by Wilfrid: July 14, 2008]Scott Bryan manned the barricades at Veritas from its 1999 opening (when my entire dinner was comped, after the first-week service had misdirected their first attempt at it to a neighboring table) until he departed last year, fetching up only this month at Lever Ho... Read More | | | | | | extremely disappointing food extensive wine list but lacking in reasonably priced wines | | | | | | My college friend Kristen of the food blog Give Me Some Food came to town recently with her mother and the two of them were kind enough to take me and our friend Ricky out to dine at a wine lover's dream restaurant: Veritas. Here's Kristen's write-up of the meal, including an account of the rest ... Read More | | | | | | [Pigging by Wilfrid: June 9, 2008]I finally gave way to curiosity about how the kitchen at Veritas was faring without founding chef Scott Bryan - and I gave way at just the wrong moment. No sooner had I hitched myself to the bar one quiet evening and worked through a nice dinner, than Bryan's ... Read More | | | | | | FLATIRON— What a day in revolving door news! This just in from the tipline: "Ed Cotton the chef at Veritas was fired last monday the 19th." A call to the restaurant confirms that Cotton left his post as executive chef "sometime last week", but the powers that be are leaving a num... Read More | | | | | | For those of us not schooled in wines, choosing between even just two bottles can prove to be a daunting task—so could you imagine choosing from a list of 100,000? Before you have a nervous breakdown, know about Veritas, a Flatiron wine bar that, yes, lets you choose your poison from a large and imp... Read More | | | |
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