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Top 50 Favorite Restaurants
in New York
Zagat Restaurant Guide
#18
Adam's Top
101 Restaurants
Adam Platt,
New York Magazine
"A Clairvoyant in the Kitchen"
Ruth Reichl,
Editor in Chief, Gourmet
"The Flavor King
of New York"
Ed Levine
Author, New York Eats
10 Best New Chefs
Food & Wine Magazine
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 New York Magazine
Ouest Side Story
By Marion Maneker
"Staking out the culinary wilderness north of Lincoln Center, Chef Tom Valenti is serving the west side's A-List a menu that's equal parts comfort food and four-star inspiration..."
ZAGAT RESTAURANT GUIDE
“It’s all here” gush Upper Westsiders who “relish” this “first-class” “wonder” where “brilliant” chef Tom Valenti blends “haute” with “homestyle” to craft “uniformly” “exceptional” New American cuisine; with “unobtrusive” service and a “sumptuous” yet “unstuffy” setting (“get a red booth”), the “humming” scene’s a “tough” reservation but well “worth the try.”
DEPARTURES MAGAZINE
"Food lovers abhor a gastronomic vacuum. For proof, you need only witeness the crowds that rush into Ouest, on the quality-deprived Upper West Side. That they do so is a tribute to chef Tom Valenti, whose lusty, straightforward food I have loved at Alison on Dominick Street, Cascabel, and Butterfield 81. Let's hope he's here to stay in this huge, multilevel new home that has crowded, leathery look of an old-style bar and grill ..."
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New York Magazine
December 24, 2001
New York Awards: Volunteers The Chefs
By Peter Kaminsky
"For other chefs, feeding people proved not an end in itself but a means to raise money for the families of cooks and kitchen workers lost in the Twin Towers collapse. "Food-service people don't earn a lot, and we don't have life insurance and 401(k)s. Families needed money right away," said Tom Valenti, the chef at Ouest."
BON APPETIT MAGAZINE
Special Award of Recognition
Windows of Hope (Windows on the World Relief Fund)
Michael Lomonaco, David Emil, Tom Valenti, and Waldy Malouf
When the World Trade Center was destroyed last year, a New York dining classic was destroyed along with it. Windows on the World, located on the 106th floor of One World Trade Center, had been a destination restaurant for 25 years. And the morning of September 11, many of the employees, from busboys to line cooks to the wait staff, were hard at work. While the lives lost at Windows and other World Trade Center restaurants are irreplaceable, the people left behind needed support. By raising more than $18 million, the charitable foundation Windows of Hope has helped ease some of the pain of 124 families and more than 150 children. Their practical, humane efforts have shown how close-knit and supportive the restaurant community really is.
NEW YORK POST
FEAST MEETS OUEST by Steve Cuozzo
"By now, even Ohioans know about Ouest, chef/co-owner Tom Valenti's temple to ribs-tickling Manhattan-American bistro cooking. Its savvy service, warm wood walls and sea of giant, round red-leather booths go down well in a district starved for an adult dining room. "
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