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Christian Delouvrier is in the kitchen, and the prices are even more insane. So is Alain Ducasse’s restaurant at the Essex House now worth it?

Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s V Steakhouse aims to reinvent the genre, but leaves you hungry for the real thing.

The neighborhood may be getting Disneyfied, but chef Zak Pelaccio’s small, intimate 5 Ninth is an exercise in authentic, simple excellence.

Blue Hill at Stone Barns, on the old Rockefeller estate 30 miles up the Hudson, delivers country dining with city sophistication.

At Per Se, Thomas Keller makes his triumphant return to New York. The atmosphere may be sedate, but the food is anything but.

In the meatpacking district, Ruby Foo’s Stephen Hanson combines a trattoria with a nightclub, and the mix (almost) works.

Wolfgang Zwiener, a 41-year veteran of Peter Luger’s, brings the secrets of that renowned Brooklyn steakhouse to midtown.

Prouvé chairs. Fine china. Organic poultry and produce. Mas brings refined French-countryside quaintness to the West Village.

At BLT Steak, former seafood master Laurent Tourondel of Cello switches from surf to turf.

Your $1.2 million bonus from Goldman Sachs has been cooling off in an index fund since January. Now it’s spring: The sun is shining, the birds are chirping, the supermodels are sundress-shopping, and you’d like to get as far away as possible from what you earned that bonus for. A little adventure might be nice. So would Wall Street luxury.