Plattypants is back from vacay this week and has filed a twofer on Aldea and Apiary, awarding both two stars and praising the merits of restos with "low-profile chefs" like George Mendes and Scott Bryan: "With its pocket-size kitchen, its small but sophisticated menu, and its technically accomplished, low-profile chef, Aldea looks like a prototype of the gourmet restaurant of tomorrow, and maybe it is...everyone at my table went slightly nuts over was the arroz de pato, a kind of newfangled trencherman’s paella." [NYM]
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