Bouchon Bakery planned for Rockefeller Center

Via NYTimes:

July 7, 2010, 11:23 am
Off the Menu: Bouchon Bakery
By FLORENCE FABRICANT

Thomas Keller plans to open a second Bouchon Bakery in New York next March. It will replace the Dean & DeLuca at 1 Rockefeller Plaza (48th Street). But it will not have a restaurant component like the Bouchon Bakery in Time Warner Center. “In good weather there will be about 45 tables outdoors, but there will be no waiter service,” he said. Sébastien Rouxel, the pastry chef for Bouchon uptown will take on this project, too, where all the baking will also be done in-house. Tiffany Jones will be the chef de cuisine for both Bouchons, in charge of savory items. Mr. Keller said that a few years ago he thought about a chain of Bouchon Bakeries in New York, but his plans have been scaled back. “We’ll take it one step at a time,” he said.