Overview

• Chef Daniel Humm announced that starting October 14, Eleven Madison Park will offer plant-based tasting menus alongside select animal dishes such as fish, meat and honey-lavender-glazed duck.
• The restaurant will keep a fully plant-based tasting menu option for each course and maintain tasting-menu prices at $365 for the full menu, $285 for five courses and $225 for the bar tasting.
• Humm said the all-vegan approach had unintentionally excluded guests and attributed the decision to sagging private-event bookings and declining wine sales.
• EMP became the first entirely plant-based restaurant to earn three Michelin stars in 2022 after adopting a vegan-only menu in 2021.
• Reactions have split online, with vegan diners expressing disappointment on social media while some culinary figures have praised the return to choice.