By Jennifer Glickel
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
MANHATTAN — The Michelin food guide gave its highest rating of three stars to famed New York-based French chef Daniel Boulud's eponymous restaurant in its 2010 guide to New York City restaurants released Monday.
Daniel, located on the Upper East Side, is the fifth restaurant in New York to receive the guide's highest rating. It joins other three-star-ranked restaurants Per Se, Jean-Georges, Le Bernadin and Masa. Paris has 10 three-star restaurants.
"For me it's like a grand slam, the apogee of my career," Boulud told the New York Times. "I'm proud for my staff, for my parents and for my customers."
The restaurant serves dishes such as a foie gras terrine with yellow peaches and turbot baked on salt imported from the Himalayas, but the award-worthy food comes at a recession-unfriendly price. Daniel's cheapest dinner option of a three-course prix fixe costs $105, with an additional $60 for wine.
"Daniel has been very consistent throughout the year," Michelin Guides director Jean-Luc Naret told Bloomberg News. Inspectors went to the restaurant eight times in the past year before reaching their decision, he said.
Michelin also awarded two stars to Michael White's Midtown Italian restaurant, Alto, and Drew Nieporent's new Tribeca French eatery, Corton. Boulud's more casual restaurant, Café Boulud, held onto its single-star ranking.
