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      Eleven Madison Park: New Owners, Same Style
      By Forbes Travel Guide Editor Hayley Bosch

      December 6, 2011

      In a decision that surprised the hospitality world, veteran restaurateur Danny Meyer of Union Square Hospitality Group has decided to sell the crown jewel of his empire: Eleven Madison Park.

      The announcement came just months after the Five-Star restaurant received the coveted 2011 James Beard Award for Outstanding Restaurant. However, Meyer’s not selling his famed eatery to just anyone. He’s handing it off to Eleven Madison Park’s chef Daniel Humm and general manager Will Guidara. Diners won’t likely see much of a change at the restaurant, considering Humm and Guidara have been running Eleven Madison Park since their arrival in 2006. And this isn’t the first entrepreneurial move the duo have made recently. Under the banner of their recently formed restaurant group Made Nice, the chef and GM are heading up the entire food program at the upcoming NoMad Hotel.

      Coinciding with the transfer of the restaurant is Humm and Guidara’s widely anticipated Eleven Madison Park: The Cookbook, which came out on (of course) 11/11/11. Just a day after the official sale of the restaurant, foodies were reading Danny Meyer’s forward in the book, where he explained that he couldn’t accept that the three could be “colleagues at Eleven Madison Park and rivals elsewhere at the same time.” And so, the only logical solution “was to take a page from so many great European restaurants — where the original patron hands the restaurant over to his protégé.” Chances are, frequent diners won’t notice that anything has changed at Eleven Madison Park, considering the restaurant’s 130 employees are sticking with dream team Humm and Guidara.

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      by Forbes Travel Guide Editor Hayley Bosch 

      About Forbes Travel Guide Editor Hayley Bosch

      Majoring in French and Italian in college yielded some of the best food (in my own humble opinion) and vacations (everyone wants to travel with someone who’s fluent) that I could imagine. And as a Content Editor at Forbes Travel Guide, I’m able to focus on my passion for traveling and eating — with a refined palate, of course. I love to write about my adventures; it’s a way of telling my story. I seek out everything from marathons in cities I’ve never explored to restaurants off the beaten path. When I’m not eating my way through my world travels, I’m chatting with our Tastemakers to help tell their stories of travel, food and business.

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