Eleven Madison Park isn’t an ordinary fine dining restaurant like any other restaurant, it’s an experience. The restaurant was ranked number 10 in the S. Pellegrino World’s 50 best restaurants in 2012. The head chef is Daniel Humm, from Switzerland. He was awarded with the James Beard award for Outstanding Chef.
This extraordinary experience is all in the menu. Eleven Madison Park doesn’t have a regular a la carte menu like any other restaurant but a printed card which shows 16 ingredients. From these 16 ingredients the staff designs a meal. Ofcourse you can say which ingredients you dislike so you don’t have to eat anything you don’t want to eat. A few of the dishes at Eleven Madison Park include molecular gastronomy. Molecular gastronomy is a subdiscipline of food science that seeks to investigate, explain and make practical use of the physical and chemical transformations of ingredients that occur while cooking.
The menu format at Eleven Madison Park is intend to offer an experience in which the guests can enjoy the inherent of surprise of a tasting menu, while still maintaining some control. Like told before, the dishes are listed solely by their principal ingredients and guests are invited to make their selections from these ingredients and allow the chef to create their meal while handing over their wishes and preferences.
Besides the amazing dishes you can eat at Eleven Madison Park the place is also a beautiful location to enjoy. There are two magnificent balcony level private dining rooms that overlook the main dining room and offer spectacular views of Madison Square Park through 20-foot windows. The perfect place to organize an event, have lunch with your business partners or enjoy an evening out with your loved ones.
Eleven Madison Park is open Monday through Sunday for lunch and dinner.
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