Will Guidara helped define a new caliber of high-touch hospitality as the front-of-house impresario behind New York’s Eleven Madison Park, one of the most acclaimed restaurants in the U.S.—ranked first, in 2017, on the World’s 50 Best Restaurants list—where a waiter might anticipate your drink order from studying your social-media feed and a tableside card trick was once part of the meal.
Its casual sibling, the NoMad, was as celebrated for its bacchanalian parties as for chef-partner Daniel Humm’s foie gras–stuffed roast chickens.
