23 Facts About Daniel Boulud

Daniel Boulud is best known for his eponymous restaurant Daniel, in New York City, which currently holds two Michelin stars.

Daniel Boulud built a reputation in New York, initially as a chef and more recently as a restaurateur.

Daniel Boulud's restaurants include Daniel, Le Pavillon, Le Gratin, Cafe Boulud, Maison Boulud, Joji, and Joji Box, db bistro, Bar Boulud, and Boulud Sud.

At fifteen, Daniel Boulud earned his first professional recognition as a finalist in France's competition for Best Culinary Apprentice.

Daniel Boulud worked in France with Roger Verge, Georges Blanc and Michel Guerard and later in Copenhagen before becoming the private chef to the European Commission in Washington, DC.

Daniel Boulud followed these openings by founding a more casual restaurant in Manhattan's theater district in 2001 and a second Cafe Boulud in Palm Beach, Florida, in 2003.

Daniel Boulud Brasserie opened in 2005 inside the Wynn Las Vegas, three years before Bar Boulud, a French bistro opposite New York City's Lincoln Center, was opened in January 2008, the same year he opened Boulud a Pekin in Beijing.

In December 2008, after the departure of founding chef Rob Feenie, Daniel Boulud reopened Vancouver restaurants Lumiere and Feenie's.

In 2009, Daniel Boulud announced that he was looking to start his next venture in London.

Bar Daniel Boulud London opened on May 29,2010, inside the Mandarin Oriental Hotel on Knightsbridge, becoming the first Daniel Boulud's restaurant in Europe.

The third location of Epicerie Daniel Boulud opened in the Oculus World Trade Center in November 2016.

Around 2018, Daniel Boulud collaborated with a group of MIT entrepreneurs to create Spyce Kitchen, a robotic restaurant in Boston.

Daniel Boulud was responsible for the menu while the founders developed the technology.

Daniel Boulud has been rated one of the top ten restaurants in the world by the International Herald Tribune, received Gourmet's Top Table Award, a four-star rating from The New York Times, Wine Spectator's Grand Award, and New York City's top ratings for cuisine, service, and decor in the Zagat Survey.

Daniel Boulud himself has been named Chef of the Year by Bon Appetit, and received the James Beard Award for Best Chef of New York City in 1992 while Executive Chef at Le Cirque.

Daniel Boulud won the International Outstanding Achievement Award at the 2015 The Catey Awards.

Daniel Boulud appeared as the guest judge along with chefs from his restaurants located in Vancouver: Stephane Istel, executive chef at DB Bistro Moderne, and Dale MacKay, executive chef at Lumiere.

Daniel Boulud appeared as a guest judge in Seasons 1 and 3 of Top Chef Canada.

Daniel Boulud appeared as himself in the television drama series Billions, episode "Flaw in the Death Star," season 3.

Daniel Boulud has been the board Co-President of Citymeals-on-Wheels since 2003 and hosts an annual gala for the charity each spring.

On 13 April 2008, Daniel Boulud hosted an intimate Sunday supper to mark the 10th anniversary of Savoring Citymeals, an annual gourmet event he has hosted since 1998.

In 2008, Paul Bocuse asked Daniel Boulud to establish a structure for the selection of the Bocuse d'Or Team USA, who, along with Thomas Keller and Jerome Bocuse form the Board of Directors of the Bocuse d'Or USA Foundation.

Daniel Boulud settled with the workers, seven current and former employees of Latin American and Bangladeshi descent, for $80,000 and agreed to set up standards and procedures for promotions to be overseen by the EEOC and the state attorney general's office.