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Established
  
1997

Food type
  
New French

Rating
  
Michelin Guide

Head chef
  
Mark LaPico

Dress code
  
Jackets are mandatory

Jean Georges

Street address
  
1 Central Park West (between West 60th Street and West 61st Street), on the lobby level of the Trump International Hotel and Tower, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan

Jean Georges is a three-Michelin-stars restaurant at 1 Central Park West (between West 60th Street and West 61st Street), on the lobby level of the Trump International Hotel and Tower, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City, named after its owner Jean-Georges Vongerichten.

According to the Michelin Guide, it is one of the top five best French restaurants in the Americas. It also remains one of the few restaurants in the city awarded four stars by The New York Times. The current executive chef is Mark LaPico and executive pastry chef is Sean Considine.

Awards

Besides four stars from The New York Times, Jean Georges has received the James Beard award for Best Chef and Best New Restaurant, and Esquire Magazine voted Chef Vongerichten the Chef of the Year in 1997. Jean Georges restaurant also holds three Michelin stars, one of seven NYC restaurants currently holding the accolade.

In 2008 it received an 18/20 "Excellent" rating. In 2009 it won the James Beard Foundation Award for outstanding restaurant.

In 2007, Jean Georges executive sous chef Lia Bardeen was featured as a contestant on season three of Top Chef, the cooking reality competition on the Bravo network.

In 2010, Jean Georges won the James Beard Award for "Outstanding Wine Service".

In 2013, Zagat's gave it a food rating of 28, the second-highest in the West 60s, and rated it the sixth-best restaurant in New York City.

In December 2015 Jean Georges was ranked number 3 in the United States and 51st in the world by La Liste; in the inaugural edition of the list of the 1,000 best restaurants in the world. sanctioned by France’s Foreign Ministry.

References

Jean Georges Wikipedia