Restaurant Daniel

Daniel Boulud has been one of the defining figures in American fine dining for four decades, and this is the room where the argument is made.Restaurant Daniel occupies a grand, columned dining space on East 65th Street, and it is the anchor of everything else he has built. The register is formal in a way that has become genuinely rare — this is classical French cooking, served properly, in a room that expects you to have dressed for it, and it makes no concession whatsoever to the informality…