M. Wells, the celebrated diner in Long Island City with a menu that read “like a drawn-out dare,” shuttered in 2011, when the owners weren’t able to reach a lease agreement.
Since then, Hugue Dufour, the chef of M. Wells and before that, of Montreal’s “temple of meat” Au Pied du Cochon, along with his partner and wife, Sarah Obraitis, have been working on a new project in Long Island City. The restaurant will be a steakhouse, replete with their famous gustatory twists and turns. It will open at the end of this year.
At this year’s Festival, a small audience will have the chance to try it out before the place is even painted.
Diners will enjoy carefully selected wines and a multi-course meal with widely sourced ingredients. We can’t reveal the menu, but you’ll definitely try something you’ve never seen on your plate before. There will also be music and conversation with fellow-Canadian and New Yorker staff writer Adam Gopnik.
There are only a handful of tickets left for this one-night-only event, so snatch them up while you can. Tickets can be purchased here.
Here are Dufour and Obraitis talking about their story and performing a caviar/ice-sculpture experiment for Vice:
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