| Chanterelle | |
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| Restaurant information | |
| Established | 1979 (1979) |
| Closed | 2009 (2009) |
| Location | 2 Harrison Street, New York, New York, 10013, United States |
| Coordinates | 40°43′7.8″N74°0′32.5″W / 40.718833°N 74.009028°W /40.718833; -74.009028 |
Chanterelle was a fine dining restaurant that opened in New York'sSoHo in 1979 before moving toTribeca in 1989. The restaurant closed in 2009.David Waltuck was the chef and one of the owners.[1] Another owner was his wife Karen.[2]
Hugh Merwin wrote that Chanterelle “changed the way NYC Restaurants did business by making good food and service less stuffy.”.[2] Waltuck won a James Beard Best Chef award. The restaurant won the Best Restaurant in America James Beard Award in 2004 and four star reviews fromThe New York Times in 1987 and 1993.[3]
The Waltucks wanted to offer a three star Michelin experience “in an informal contemporary American setting.”Gael Greene published “rave reviews” less than a month after the restaurant opened which was the first of many such reviews. The reviews by the Times were written byRuth Reichl andBryan Miller.[4]
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