The Blue Hill Restaurant is a restaurant located at 75 Washington Place (between MacDougal Street and 6th Avenue) near Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village, Manhattan in New York City, with a second location (Blue Hill at Stone Barns) in the Pocantico Hills about 30 miles outside the city. It has been reviewed by the New York Times, and New York magazine.
The Blue Hill Restaurant was established in April 2000, and is owned by Dan, David, and Laureen Barber. Blue Hill Restaurant has been awarded for the New Best Restaurant by the James Beard Foundation while Blue Hill at Stone Barns was recognized as one of the Top 40 Restaurants in the U.S. in 2008 by GAYOT.com. Blue Hill Restaurant obtain some of their ingredients from the Stone Barns Farm. The President and Mrs. Obama dined at Blue Hill on May 30, 2009.
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“My Father, it is surely a blue place
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