Daniel Boulud is chef-owner of several award-winning restaurants and the Feast & Fêtes catering company. He hails from Lyon, France, and is today considered one of America’s leading culinary authorities. Daniel Boulud’s New York City restaurants include DANIEL, a three Michelin star Relais & Châteaux member; the elegant one Michelin star Café Boulud with its adjacent Bar Pleiades; the more casual db Bistro Moderne; Bar Boulud and DBGB Kitchen and Bar. His Manhattan destinations on the Upper West Side opened in May 2011, Boulud Sud, a Mediterranean themed restaurant, and Épicerie Boulud, an eat-in and take-out market and café offering house-made charcuterie, salads, soups, sandwiches, artisanal cheeses, bread and pastries, ice cream and more. Beyond Manhattan, the chef has created Café Boulud in Palm Beach, db Bistro Moderne in downtown Miami, Maison Boulud in Beijing, db Bistro Moderne at Singapore, Bar Boulud in London, Café Boulud in Toronto’s Four Seasons Hotel and a Maison Boulud in Montréal’s Ritz-Carlton. Boulud’s culinary accolades include James Beard Foundation awards for “Outstanding Restaurant,” “Outstanding Restaurateur,” “Best Chef, New York City” and “Outstanding Chef of the Year.” In addition, he has been named “Chef of the Year” by the Culinary Institute of America and Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur by the French government. Restaurant DANIEL has been cited as “one of the ten best restaurants in the world” by the International Herald Tribune, has earned three Michelin stars and Wine Spectator’s “Grand Award”, and is ranked eighth among Restaurant Magazine’s “World’s 50 Best Restaurants.”