Top NYC chef explains switching Eleven Madison Park to all-vegan menu

Eleven Madison Park, one of the city’s priciest restaurants, is betting the farm — and seeds, roots and fungi — on an all-vegan menu when it reopens on June 10. Goodbye, our favorite lavender and honey-roasted duck and mushroom butter-poached lobster! 

It’s an epicurean upheaval by chef/owner Daniel Humm, who’s presided over the three-Michelin-starred eatery’s kitchen since 2006. EMP customers were used to meaty masterpieces from land and sea as part of a $335 prix fixe tasting menu.  The new menu will also cost $335 (including tip) for 12 courses, compared with eight to 10 pre-pandemic. It will be 100 percent “plant-based” with “vegetables, both from the earth and the sea, as well as fruits, legumes, fungi, grains, and so much more,” Humm wrote to customers on Monday.