The scene at the newly opened Icon, set inside the super-sleek W New York, the court hotel, is something else.
Every night feels like a party.
In keeping with our pledge to celebrate the culinary arts, we here at The James Beard Foundation consider it our sworn duty to put Sale's food front and center. Sale, who grew up in England, isn' t just some club-type who stumbled into the kitchen and began playing with pots and pans. A graduate of Southampton Culinary College in Britain, he landed his first job at the Michelin two-star Connaught Hotel Mayfair in London, where he was fortunate to have chef Michele Bourdin mentor him. In 1989, he moved to New York to join the staff at the elegant Peacock Alley in the Waldorf-Astoria. He continued his tour through some of America's best hotel kitchens with a job at The Hilton at Short Hills in New Jersey.