For better or worse, most of us center our dinners around meat. And that\u2019s especially true when we go out to eat: it\u2019s hard to resist the temptation of steak or of fresh-caught fish at a place that truly knows what they\u2019re doing with it.<\/p>\n
Eleven Madison Park is one of those places. The fine dining restaurant in New York City has three Michelin stars, and is the kind of restaurant that offers a prix-fixe 11-course meal for the sticker-shock-inducing $335.<\/p>\n
Those courses used to feature things like frogs\u2019 legs and dry-aged veal<\/a><\/strong>. But according to a post on the restaurant\u2019s website, those dishes are a thing of the past, as are any dishes that contain meat. Eleven Madison Park is going vegan<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n Chef-owner Daniel Humm told the New York Times<\/a><\/strong> that the move was about making a statement: \u201cThe current food system is simply not sustainable, in so many ways.\u201d And although Humm wasn\u2019t explicit about exactly what concerns him, you don\u2019t need to look far to get the gist: from the out-sized environmental impact of raising and feeding livestock<\/a><\/strong> to the overfishing<\/strong><\/a> of the world\u2019s oceans.<\/p>\n Humm is taking a stand, and in a way that could risk his restaurant\u2019s profits. Will people be enticed by an all-vegan menu? And even if they are, will the price point scare them off? (The cost of Humm\u2019s meals isn\u2019t going to change: $335, even without the veal.)<\/p>\n As niche as fine dining can be, it will be interesting to see how it all plays out. Humm could end up inspiring other chefs to see their menus differently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For better or worse, most of us center our dinners around meat. And that\u2019s especially true when we go out to eat: it\u2019s hard to resist the temptation of steak or of fresh-caught fish at a place that truly knows what they\u2019re doing with it. Eleven Madison Park is one of those places. The fine […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1243,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions\/1243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}