Intrigue

There Are Food Tasters Lurking in Le Bernardin’s Kitchen

Sure, it's peaceful out here.
Sure, it’s peaceful out here. Photo: Melissa Hom

Now that it’s back-to-school time at the U.N., fancy restaurants within an easy car ride of U.N. HQ are seeing an influx of delegates, reports “Page Six.” The Mark is swarming with bodyguards, the Plaza is hosting diplomats at the Rose Bar, and, in a piece of news that brings to mind Czarist Russia, at Le Bernardin the other night, food tasters “hovered” in the kitchen, ensuring that not-exactly-popular Khazak president Nursultan Nazarbayev’s food was not poisoned. The intrigue! [Page Six/NYP]

There Are Food Tasters Lurking in Le Bernardin’s Kitchen