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Located in a beautiful two-story townhouse on
a tree-lined street on the Upper East Side,
Jo Jo restaurant was Jean-Georges Vongerichten's
first restaurant in New York. Opened in 1991
with partners Phil Suarez and Bob Giraldi, Jo
Jo is Jean-Georges' nickname as a child (although
his Mom is the only one still allowed to call
him this).
When Jean-Georges opened Jo Jo, he was fresh
out of Lafayette restaurant, where he had burst
onto the New York dining scene, dazzling guests
with his innovative interpretation of classic
French cuisine and earning four stars from The
New York Times at the age of 29. In the first
of many bold moves that has established him
as a culinary trend-setter, Jean-Georges traded
in this formal 4-star dining room for paper-clothed
tables and opened his charmingly elegant bistro
Jo Jo.
At Jo Jo, Jean-Georges introduced diners to
his 'vibrant and spare cuisine' whose intense
flavors and satisfying textures he created by
eschewing traditional meat stocks for vegetables
juices and fruit essences, light broths and
herbal vinaigrettes. Jo Jo was named Best New
Restaurant of the Year by John Mariani in Esquire
magazine and earned three-stars from The New
York Times, in which Ruth Reichl summed up Jean-Georges
contemporary French cuisine in the sentence
"His food took my breath away."
Jo Jo is open for lunch Monday to Friday and
for dinner Monday through Saturday.
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