What to do after your three-Michelin-star Eleven Madison Park wins top honors at the World’s 50 Best Restaurant awards?
If you’re Swiss-born chef Daniel Humm, you close it for renovations and head for the beach.
From June 24 through Labor Day, he’ll host the casual pop-up EMP Summer House in East Hampton (bookings exclusive to American Express card members).
Come September, he’ll unveil the Brad Cloepfil-designed revamp of the original and, later this fall, the LA outpost of his famed eatery at the NoMad Hotel. Here, Humm, 40, shares his culinary accounting.
Daniel Humm’s Life by the Numbers
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Age Humm received his first Michelin star, for his work at Gasthaus zum Gupf (pictured), in eastern Switzerland. He was the youngest chef in the country’s history to earn a star.
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Editions being printed of the two-book set “Eleven Madison Park: The Next Chapter,” out in October. “One volume is going to have more than 100 recipes and photographs; the other, watercolors and stories,” says Humm. “The recipes and stories are linked, and it’s all published in a really beautiful way.”
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NYC Marathons Humm has run — in 2008 and 2015. He’ll tackle his third, racing with several members of the EMP team, this fall.
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Gears on his Trek “Madone” bike. Humm was once on his way to becoming a pro cyclist.
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EMP staffers moving to the East End this June to man EMP Summer House, which will serve summer fare like a tomato salad with strawberries. “We worked hard to find housing for everyone,” says the chef.
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Feet above sea level that Switzerland’s Mont Blanc soars — Humm summited it last week.