It’s only been rated 6th best restaurant in the world this year, and spent the last 8 years on the list of 50 Best Restaurants, been given higher ratings than any other restaurant in North America (with maybe the exception of its sister in California) and I could go on and on, but the truth is that Thomas Keller’s Per Se, aside from its glorification, is also one of the most over-hyped restaurants in the world – one that keeps pushing one’s expectations higher and higher until they could possibly go no further, a very serious contention for disappointment and despair. Having sampled the fare of French Laundry in its London avatar, I wondered just what Per Se might have up its sleeve…
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May 28, 2012
