AMERICA’S TOP-RATED

RESTAURANTS & CHEFS 2008
These restaurants were selected by John Mariani as America’s Top 20 Restaurants 2008
(not in order of preference). The content of this overview was written by the editorial
staff of the Chefs In America Awards Foundation.

ELEVEN MADISON

PARK

RESTAURANT

Open since 1998 in the Flatiron District, Eleven Madison Park embodies urbane sophistication, serving Chef Daniel Humm’s modern, sophisticated French cuisine that emphasizes purity, simplicity and seasonal flavors and ingredients. The restaurant’s dramatically high ceilings and magnificent art deco dining room offer guests lush views of historic Madison Square Park and the Flatiron building.

CHEF DANIEL HUMM
A native of Switzerland, Daniel began his formal culinary training at the age of 14. In his late teens, as Executive Chef of Gasthaus zum Gupf in the Swiss Alps, Daniel earned a Michelin Star. In 2003, Daniel became the Executive Chef at San Francisco’s Campton Place. While there, he received Four Stars from the San Francisco Chronicle, the James Beard Foundation “Rising Star Chef of the Year” nomination in both 2004 and 2005, and was honored as one of Food & Wine’s Best New Chefs 2005.

In 2006, Daniel was selected as the Executive Chef of Eleven Madison Park. Under Daniel’s leadership, Eleven Madison Park received its first Three Star review from The New York Times in January 2007. In 2008, the restaurant won a James Beard Award for “Outstanding Wine Service”, and Eleven Madison Park was designated Grand Chef Relais & Châteaux, joining the ranks of one of the world’s most prestigious associations of hotels and gourmet restaurants.