His Restaurants
Boulud set out on his own and opened his restaurant Daniel, in 1993, in Manhattan's Upper East Side. Daniel relocated the restaurant to a new home in 1998: a Venetian renaissance-inspired setting at Park Avenue and 65th Street—premises, in fact, that had once housed Le Cirque. The original Daniel was re-launched as the Café Boulud.
He opened a more casual restaurant in the theater district of Manhattan in 2001: db Bistro Moderne, and in 2003 a second Café Boulud in Palm Beach, Florida. Daniel Boulud Brasserie opened in 2005 inside the Wynn Las Vegas.
In 2004, Boulud crafted the menus for the brand-new Queen Mary 2.
In January 2008, the Chef opened Bar Boulud, a French bistro located across from Lincoln Center in New York City.
He opened Maison Boulud à Pékin in Beijing China in July 2008.
In December 2008, after the departure of founding chef Rob Feenie and minority owner, Boulud reopened Vancouver restaurants Lumière and Feenie's (renaming the latter "db Bistro Moderne", making it the sister restaurant to db Bistro Moderne in Manhattan) as Chef, Consulting Chef and Co-partner. Boulud and his partners closed those two restaurants on 13 March 2011. He opened DBGB Kitchen & Bar, a Pan-European brasserie, in New York City in 2009.
In June 2009, Boulud stated that he wanted to open his next venture to be in London and that he is currently looking into several options for it.
Daniel Boulud Brasserie closed on 4 July 2010. Wynn chose not to renew the contract between Boulud & The Resort (see Wynn Las Vegas for more). It is rumored that Boulud is looking for another location to open in Las Vegas, possibly in the space that used to be occupied by Charlie Trotter at The Palazzo.
In February 2011, Boulud opened a db Bistro Moderne at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore.
In April 2011, it was announced that Maison Boulud in Ritz-Carlton Montreal would open, a business that Boulud's Dinex Group has been contracted to run.
On 9 May 2011, Boulud Sud opened across from Bar Boulud, with a focus on Mediterranean cuisine. Although not a restaurant, Épicerie Boulud opened on the same day as a market/deli.
Café Boulud Toronto opened on 5 October 2012. The restaurant is housed in the new Four Seasons Hotel Toronto.
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