Daniel is a New French restaurant located at 60 East 65th Street (between Madison Avenue and

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), on the

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, in New York City. It is owned and run by French

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Daniel Boulud Daniel Boulud (born 25 March 1955 in Saint-Pierre-de-Chandieu) is a French chef and restaurateur with restaurants in New York City, Palm Beach, Miami, Toronto, Montréal, Singapore, the Bahamas, the Berkshires and Dubai. He is best known f ...

, New York's longest-reigning four-star chef. The restaurant moved to its current location in early 1999. Since 2013, Ghaya Oliveira has been the executive

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Ratings

Since 2002, Daniel has been a recipient of the ''

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'' Grand Award. In 2013, ''

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'' gave it a food rating of 28 (the second-highest rating on the Upper East Side), and decor and service ratings of 28 (each the highest on the Upper East Side). It ranked it the 4th-best restaurant in New York City. In 2012
The Infatuation
gave it a rating of 8.9/10 and included it on their 2020 list o
The Best Restaurants on the Upper East Side
It was one of only five restaurants awarded four stars by ''

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'', however it was downgraded to three stars by restaurant critic

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. It is two-star rated by the ''

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''. In October 2019, ''

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'' magazine rated Daniel "top-ranked restaurant in America".

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