Cabbage, Yams Star on $475 Alain Ducasse Menu at Eleven Madison Park
Don’t look for caviar on the $475 menu at the pop-up featuring Ducasse and EMP chef Daniel Humm working side by side.
Chefs Daniel Humm (left) and Alain Ducasse in a collaboration mode in Paris.
Photographer: Maki ManoukianDaniel Humm and Alain Ducasse are chefs who know the meaning of luxury dining. Between them, they run restaurants that hold a total of 24 Michelin stars, including four with three stars—the shiny summit of dining in the guide’s world. Their establishments are outfitted with acres of crystal glasses, uncreased linen tablecloths and towering floral arrangements. A purse stool hidden under a table at Ducasse’s Le Meurice in Paris might itself cost over $10,000.
Still, at the two chefs’ forthcoming four-night pop-up at Humm’s Eleven Madison Park in New York, the featured ingredients stand at the other end of the fine dining spectrum. The stars of the $475, 10-course dinner are sweet potatoes and plantains, green cabbage, and squash.