New York Post

Eleven Madison pork for rich

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IN the Big Apple, where the 1 percent always gets the biggest bite, it emerges the city’s most exalted vegan restaurant has a secret meat room for the mega-rich.

In May, chef Daniel Humm said with much flowery fanfare that Eleven Madison Park would reopen from its pandemic closure with only plant-based meals. But it’s not just any meager menu: It’s 12 courses for $335.

Humm haughtily hammered his message home by telling the New York Times the restaurant would no longer serve meat or seafood, saying, “The current food system is simply not sustainabl­e, in so many ways.” The eatery’s only animal products offered would be milk and honey for coffee and tea service, he said.

Yet it seems those principles are off the plate in the private dining room — which insiders say is targeted to corporate events and is a big earner for the establishm­ent.

Times food critic Pete Wells just slaughtere­d the restaurant in his review, adding at the end, “It’s some kind of metaphor for Manhattan, where there’s always a higher level of luxury, a secret room where the rich eat roasted tenderloin while everybody else gets an eggplant canoe.”

Page Six has exclusivel­y obtained the private dining room menu, which includes dishes such as foie gras, beef carpaccio and butterpoac­hed lobster with black truffle and celery root. There’s also pork seared with red cabbage and cocoa beans, roasted chicken and beef, scallops, halibut, trout and sturgeon, which is listed as endangered in some areas. Not to mention a series of local cheeses. Prices for the private seven-course tasting menu run up to $285 per person with a reserve wine pairing option available for an extra $295.

Reps for the restaurant — which famously kicked out Hollywood superagent Ari Emanuel in August when he allegedly threw “a hissy fit” that the food and service was taking too long — declined to comment.

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