cuisine art
...japanese kobe beef
doesn’t make much of a difference. A restaurant
that doesn’t let you pick what you eat sounds like
a didactic, haughty affair, but Pytka chose this
route to keep his restaurant accessible. What you
see is what you get.
The first Bastide, under opening chef Alain Giraud
and then Ludovic Lefebvre, was more formal.
Both the food and the decor of the restaurant
were unmistakably
Provence
. But “Provençal
food is very restricted in its sophistication,” Pytka
says. In addition, he “wanted to get away from
the Provençal look, so to speak, and make it more
urban-sophisticated.”
“The style of the restaurant is controlled because
I’m a director and want to control things as much
as possible,” the long-haired, six-foot-five Pytka
says. In addition to being a passionate diner
and entrepreneur, his credits include turns as the
director of films such as
Let It Ride
and
Space Jam
.
He is perhaps best known for directing some of
the most famous commercials ever made—think
Ray Charles for Pepsi, “This is Your Brain on Drugs”
and “Bo Knows” for Nike. So, just as you wouldn‘t
expect to choose what happens during one of his
shoots, you don’t go to Bastide to choose what to
eat. Instead, place yourself in the deft hands of
chef Walter Manzke.
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