Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about food and drink in NYC—and beyond. “When I first started at Per Se, I didn’t imagine I would be here for more than a ...

Melissa McCart is the lead editor of the Northeast region with more than 20 years of experience as a reporter, critic, editor, and cookbook author. Thomas Keller’s three-Michelin-starred Per Se, the ...

NEW YORK Per Se, one of the city's most exclusive fine-dining restaurants, reportedly will try to beat back the effects of the financial crisis by offering an à la carte menu for the first time.

When I first spoke with Thomas Keller about the restaurant he was planning to open in Manhattan, he said it was not going to be a clone of his French Laundry in Yountville. He almost sounded like a ...