The Q&A Cafe Archives: Chef and Restaurant Mogul Daniel Boulud

Daniel Boulud started his culinary path on the family farm outside Lyon, France, cooking with his grandmother and other family members, and then as a teenager working his way into the kitchen of a legendary chef. Today he owns restaurants all over the globe, including DBGB DC in downtown Washington. The singular mothership, though, is Restaurant Daniel on Upper East Side of NYC, a transcendent dining experience from "soup to nuts," as they said an earlier century. He masterfully combines that kind of old world heritage with a uniquely modern vibe in the room and on the plate. We talked in April of 2015. Our long friendship threads through the interview, which we taped at the George Town Club.