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His entrepreneurial vision was informed by the classical techniques and ���Ǿ�����é styles of Alain Ducasse and Paul Liebrandt — two legendary French chefs, and two of his former bosses.

Anduaga’s ���Ǿ�����é style, and vibrant yet plangent timbre, made him an uncommonly sensitive Nemorino — more of a melancholy-prone Werther scribbling poeticisms in a notebook than a sunny country bumpkin mooning over his beloved.

At Southern Soigné in Jackson, Miss., Zacchaeus Golden offers a multicourse dinner for $95, a fraction of the cost of most lavish tasting-menu marathons.

Ms. Blamey made her reputation at Chumley’s, a reconstructed speakeasy whose dining room was decorated with jackets of books by long-dead Greenwich Village writers; to anyone who ate there, it was obvious that Ms. Blamey’s cooking was more interesting than many of those books; even her cheeseburger was probably the most ���Ǿ�����é cheeseburger in the city.

He was ���Ǿ�����é, to use one of his favorite words, and he had éclat, to use another.