Wednesday Food News: Early Edition

Bruni re-reviews Eleven Madison Park and the Bar Room at the Modern, bumping each up a star to three. He raves about chef Daniel Humm, who took over the kitchen at Eleven Madison Park early last year. Finds the beef tenderloin with bordelaise sauce thickened with marrow "druggy." As for the Bar Room, it's "an unpretentious character study," he says.

This week Eater once again does not put its mouth where its money is. Their money is on two stars at Eleven Madison Park and one star at the Bar Room. Their prediction, which somehow has evolved into another thing entirely, is on three stars at Eleven Madison and two at The Bar Room.

In $25 and Under, Peter Meehan likes Zoma in Harlem for Ethiopian. Finds the food "tonier" and also slightly more healthy than at other Ethiopian restaurants in the city. Especially good are the vegetarian and doro wett (chicken drumsticks) combo plates.

Cuozzo goes to Waverly Inn for The Post, finds it "the most annoying new place to eat in a long time." Doesn't much like the food, the menu or the service, but "it's hard to stay mad at an eatery so pretty, so cozy, and so romantically evocative of a Village salon era that never was." Heh.

Ryan Sutton visits 15 East for Bloomberg. Former Jewel Bako chef Masato Shimizu is installed in the former Toqueville space, and Shimizu's fans are already flocking to the new venue. He likes the chef's "jovial temperament" though the fish is "sometimes too cool."

In the NY Sun, Paul Adams likes Klee Brasserie. Says "it provides quality goods with effortless, agendaless style."

And from across the pond, the UK Observer's December food issue has interviews with three of Europe's food stars: El Bulli's Ferran Adria, The Fat Duck's Heston Blumenthal and French food chemist Herve This.