April Bloomfield Left Her Last Remaining NYC Restaurant Months Ago

April Bloomfield is no longer part of the Breslin, her only remaining NYC restaurant

As the Breslin in the Ace Hotel in Nomad quietly reopened as the Breslin Burger last month, chef and co-owner April Bloomfield had already severed ties with her only remaining NYC restaurant back in January, a spokesperson for the restaurant confirms with Eater.

Ryan Jordan, the executive chef of the newly opened and more casual Breslin Burger, had worked alongside Bloomfield at both the Breslin and John Dory, the shuttered seafood restaurant in the hotel. For much of the past year, the Breslin remained closed because of the ongoing pandemic. Bloomfield decided to move on from the restaurant earlier this year, before it rebranded itself “to have some fun and serve great food and drink,” according to the spokesperson. The only remaining trace of Bloomfield’s tenure on the new menu is the signature lamb burger.

Just weeks before the pandemic shutdown in mid-March 2020, Bloomfield led a dinner series at the Breslin. The Times described it as the English chef’s first high-profile event since the sexual harassment scandal by Ken Friedman, her former business partner, led to the closure of the Spotted Pig. This week, Bloomfield, who also took up a chef-in-residence title last year at the Mayflower Inn and Spa in Connecticut, was announced as the newest “culinary advisor” at the Vanderbilt, an opulent mansion that’s now a hotel in Newport, Rhode Island.

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— Rockefeller Center’s Dine at 620 pop-up series — held on a rooftop venue known as 620 Loft & Garden — will host Atogirl from July 19 to 22 and 26 to 29. The celebrated team behind Atomix and Atoboy is offering a prix-fixe menu with an options for add-ons.

— Chef Gerardo Gonzalez, whom New Yorkers may remember from the trendy El Rey and Lalito before decamping to Grand Cayman a few years ago, returns to NYC for a series of dinner parties spanning two weeks at Niche Niche. The dinners ($65 per person) are slated for July 18, 19, 25, and 26.

— Mona Talbott and Kate Arding, owners of Talbot and Arding Cheese and Provisions in Hudson, New York, give a tour of the popular upstate destination in a food-centric itinerary for Bon Appétit.

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