Groundbreaking New York Restaurant WD-50 to Close Unexpectedly
In DepthWD-50, one of the biggest-name restaurants in New York, plans to close at the end of November 2014, and there’s no explanation as to why.
Chef Wylie Dufresne, largely regarded as one of the more creative and boundary-pushing chefs in the business, has been at the helm of WD-50 for 11 years now — it’s where he made his mark, propelling the restaurant to tremendous success. In 2010, S. Pellegrino listed it as one of the World’s 50 Best Restaurants. Dufresne himself has been called the “Mad Scientist” of food, an appropriate title considering this is the man who figured out how to fry mayonnaise.* This is a guy who takes tremendous joy in breaking down the component parts of foods just so he can rebuild them in crazy new ways like a kid with Legos and an active imagination, and whose kitchen at WD-50 has an enormous entrance specifically designed to allow customers to watch him and his chefs at work.