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Daily Mail
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- Daily Mail
Famous NYC restaurant that charges $365 for dinner dumps vegan menu because it wasn't making enough money
An iconic New York City restaurant which charges diners $365 for high-end tasting dishes has ditched its all-vegan menu because they weren't making enough money. Eleven Madison Park is a high-end restaurant sitting on the corner of Madison Avenue and 24th St - right next to the famous Madison Square Park. For the past four years, the restaurant has exclusively served a seven to nine-course tasting menu featuring all vegan dishes. However, the chef - Daniel Humm - has now decided to re-introduce animal products to the menu, citing financial stresses as part of the reason. Humm also claimed that he is bringing meat back for the sake of hospitality, telling the New York Times that he doesn't want to 'exclude' people. 'I very much believed in the all-in approach, but I didn't realize that we would exclude people,' he said. 'I have some anxiety that people are going to say, "Oh, he's a hypocrite," but I know that the best way to continue to champion plant-based cooking is to let everyone participate around the table.' As for the financial struggles, Humm reported that the restaurant found it increasingly hard over the last year to maintain the level of creativity and labor required to keep business going strong. Humm also said that the vegan menu wasn't attracting large events - like corporate dinners. 'It's hard to get 30 people for a corporate dinner to come to a plant-based restaurant,' he said. Another hit the restaurant took was in wine sales. 'For wine aficionados, grand cru goes with meat,' Humm said. The new meat-inclusive menu will begin on October 14. It will still offer seven to nine courses for $365, and it will still be largely plant-based, but some of the dishes will incorporate meat. A statement posted by Eleven Madison Park and Humm on Instagram said: 'Change is fundamental to who we are and how we grow... Starting October 14th, we will integrate our new culinary language into a menu that embraces choice. 'We will offer a plant-based menu, of course, but also select animal products for certain dishes...' Restaurant-goers will have the opportunity to opt in to include certain meat or seafood options in certain dishes. This will include the possibility of oysters, lobster and dry-aged duck covered with lavender honey - which has been singled out by critics as a favorite. Humm is also contemplating adding a chicken dish to the tasting menu. Diners who still want a fully vegan experience are able to do so. The fully-vegan menu was introduced by Humm in 2021, when he re-opened the restaurant after it had been closed for 15 months due to Covid. Humm spent the pandemic fighting bankruptcy and working with Rethink Food - a nonprofit that he co-founded which serves millions of free meals to medical workers and less-fortunate members of the NYC community. During this time, Humm came to view luxury food less as expensive animal products - like foie gras and caviar, and more as carefully-sourced food prepared with skill and creativity. 'We couldn't go back to doing what we did before,' Humm told the New York Times when he announced the vegan menu in 2021. There were critics who viewed the plant-based pivot as just another pretentious stunt by a creative chef - who, on one occasion, created a menu that required waiters to perform card tricks. Meanwhile others doubted that people would pay hundreds of dollars for vegan food. Some considered the decision an important move towards sustainability, as people become more aware of how the food they consume affects the environment. The restaurant gained mixed reviews during its vegan days, but overall it is rated very highly. Back in 2021, New York Times critic Pete Wells had little time for a certain dehydrated beetroot dish served in a clay pot that is broken open at the table, saying that it 'tastes like Lemon Pledge and smells like a burning joint.' Eleven Madison Park has 4.4 stars on Google reviews, 4.3 on Yelp and an impressive 4.7 on Resy - where it has been rated almost 7,000 times. With only a handful of bad reviews, most of them complained about the vegan food. 'I visited Eleven Madison Park prior to the pandemic and had an incredible experience. Unfortunately after it decided to go vegan, I had not heard the best things about this place,' one wrote. They continued: 'Unfortunately, the food was a complete miss in my opinion. As you can see in my other reviews, I am just not a fan of vegan food.' Another review said: 'I was vegan for a while and had amazing vegan food when I lived in California so that is what I was comparing this too and I have to say I was extremely disappointed.'
Daily Mail
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Jorgie Porter shows off her post-pregnancy physique in a beige bikini as she enjoys her final days of maternity leave in Marbella - before returning to Hollyoaks
She's currently enjoying a rather different moment in the sun after returning to work on Hollyoaks following the birth of her second child. But she had the real thing at her disposal back in July, and plenty of it, while spending the last precious days of her maternity leave on holiday in Marbella. The actress, best known for her role as Theresa McQueen in the long-running Channel 4 soap, showed off her post-pregnancy body as she hit the beach in skimpy beige swimwear. Porter, 37, was seen racing across the sand during her final appearance on the picturesque Mediterranean island, days before returning to work in Liverpool. The British star later cooled off beneath an outdoor shower before pulling a pair of tight black cycling shorts over her bikini bottoms and returning to her hotel. Porter appeared to be without fiancé Ollie Piotrowski as she rounded off her day by taking baby daughter Peony on a brief tour of a local port. The child, who was born in December, remained shaded in a sun hat as she sat in her pram during the outing. Porter recently confirmed her return to Hollyoaks would coincide with the teen soap's 30th anniversary. She told OK! magazine: 'Something really special is happening when I go back, which I can't give away, but it's exciting.' The actress said her character Theresa - who made her first appearance on the show in 2008 - will be 'scheming with an unlikely business partner.' Porter took time away from the soap after she welcoming her second child with Piotrowski. The couple are already parents to son Forest, two. She returned to the show in 2020 and has appeared periodically since then, including a two year spell from 2020 before her latest comeback in 2024. The actress was seen returning to the show's Liverpool set in August, after sharing behind-the-scenes social media content with her Instagram followers. Sharing a short video of herself dressed in character, she said: 'Guess who's on set! There she is! Filming for the latest... shhhh!' The actress, best known for her role as Theresa McQueen in the long-running Channel 4 soap, showed off her post-pregnancy body Porter was understood to be filming scenes for Hollyoaks spin-off show, Hollyoaks Later, during her appearance on Merseyside. The show, which usually airs after 9:00pm on E4, explores themes and storylines that the 6:30pm pre-watershed episode would not feature, including more sex and swearing. In October, to celebrate Hollyoaks' 30th birthday week, there will be another instalment of the post-watershed spin-off. The likes of Jamie Lomas, who plays Warren Fox, will also star alongside Porter in the special episode. Porter later pulled on a pair of black cycling shorts and sunglasses while taking baby daughter Peony on a short tour of a local port The child, who was born in December, remained shaded in a sun hat as she sat in her pram during the outing Speaking about the upcoming venture, Porter said: 'It's really exciting to be a part of Laters, I've been in so many over the years and they're always my favourite - hopefully I get a swear word this time. 'Theresa is scheming with an unlikely business partner and its fun to see her living life on the edge again. 'It's incredible to time my return with the Hollyoaks 30th birthday week too, I couldn't miss it.' Co-star Lomas added: 'It's great to be back for Hollyoaks 30th celebrations and what better way to return than a Laters. 'Warren has been busy since you last saw him, wanting to rebuild his empire and start afresh after the heartbreak with Mercedes. 'We'll be filming a lot on location and they're pulling out all the stops so I'm looking forward to it.' The official press release states: 'Hollyoaks Later has a history of airing some of soap's most spine-chilling twists over its 17-year tenure, and viewers can expect the same level of high-stakes drama for this Autumn special…' But not before seeing out the final days of her maternity leave on holiday in sunny Marbella
The Guardian
2 hours ago
- The Guardian
Jimmy Kimmel obtained Italian citizenship in response to Trump's ‘unbelievable' re-election
Jimmy Kimmel has revealed he acquired Italian citizenship due to Donald Trump's presidency, the latest in a wave of celebrities to make contingency plans after his re-election in 2024. Speaking on The Sarah Silverman Podcast, the US late-night host confirmed the news. Italian news agency Ansa confirmed Kimmel had obtained Italian citizenship earlier this year after proving his ancestral lineage. 'A lot of people I know are thinking about, where are they going to get citizenship?' Silverman said of the wider exodus in response to Trump's re-election. 'I did get Italian citizenship,' Kimmel said. 'What's going on is as bad as you thought it was gonna be. It's so much worse – it's just unbelievable. I feel like it's probably even worse than he would like it to be.' In June, Kimmel spoke of his heritage at an Italian Republic Day event in Los Angeles, telling the audience that his grandfather's parents moved to New York from Ischia, an island off the coast of Naples, after an earthquake in 1883 killed most of their family. 'I have just obtained citizenship, thanks to my beloved grandmother Edith, whose family came from Candida, in the province of Avellino. She used to repeat to me, 'You have the brain of a hamster!'' he reportedly told the audience. Rosie O'Donnell moved to Ireland in January, while Ellen DeGeneres recently confirmed she and her wife, the actor Portia de Rossi, decided to relocate to the UK after Trump's election last year. 'It's clean,' DeGeneres said, of the UK. 'Everything here is just better – the way animals are treated, people are polite. I just love it here.' She also expressed concern for the future of LGBTQ+ rights in the US, hinting that she and De Rossi may get married again in the UK due to the possibility that same-sex marriage could be overturned in the US. Kimmel is among a cohort of late-night hosts, including John Oliver, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, who regularly use their shows as a platform to criticise the Trump administration. In May, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert was controversially axed by CBS, not long after he criticised the network's decision to settle a $16m lawsuit with Trump on-air. CBS has denied it was a politically motivated decision, but Trump did not disguise his pleasure at the news, writing on social media: 'I absolutely love that Colbert got fired. His talent was even less than his ratings. I hear Jimmy Kimmel is next. Has even less talent than Colbert!' A few days later, he wrote: 'The word is, and it's a strong word at that, Jimmy Kimmel is NEXT to go in the untalented Late Night Sweepstakes and, shortly thereafter, [Jimmy] Fallon will be gone.' Speaking on Silverman's show, Kimmel said former Trump supporters who found themselves in opposition to his agenda in office should be supported. 'Now you see these clips of Joe Rogan saying, 'Why is he doing this? Why are you deporting people?' And people go, 'Fuck you! You supported him.' I don't buy into that,' Kimmel said. 'The door has to stay open. If you want to change your mind, that's so hard to do. If you want to admit you were wrong, that is so hard and so rare to do. You are welcome.'
