Famed Chef Thomas Keller talks when being a chef became a thing: 'It wasn't important for us really until Jackie Kennedy brought Rene Verdon into the White House.' Watch the full documentary with Newsweek here:
Famed chef Thomas Keller had been thinking about his latest endeavor, TAK Room at Hudson Yards, since 1996. But it was in 2008 when developer Stephen Ross, who installed Keller’s Per Se at the Time Warner Center in Columbus Circle, mentioned he was exploring opportunities in the Hudson Yards area. At the time, the neighborhood was an undeveloped wasteland above the Long Island Railroad rail yards.
“These restaurants are where people have the opportunity to really come in and relax, spend time with their friends, with their families, with their business associates, and kind of revive themselves,” Keller says. “Restaurants shouldn't be about politics. It really should be about a place of refuge, where we can actually find that solace and comfort, and nourish ourselves.
TAK Room doesn’t tout exotic ingredients or lengthy formal courses, says Keller. Rather, the focus is on the quality of the food and the exceptional service. “These days, you come to a restaurant, you take a picture, you post it. There are all these opinions—of anybody and everybody,” he says wistfully. “I have too many important things to do than follow what the bloggers and social media are saying… Once you start getting into that world, it's not good. It either reinforces what you're doing or criticizes what you're doing.”
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