Chanterelle was a fine dining restaurant that opened in New York's SoHo in 1979 before moving to Tribeca in 1989.

[2] Hugh Merwin wrote that Chanterelle “changed the way NYC Restaurants did business by making good food and service less stuffy.”.

[2] Waltuck won a James Beard Best Chef award.

[3] The Waltucks wanted to offer a three star Michelin experience “in an informal contemporary American setting.” Gael Greene published “rave reviews” less than a month after the restaurant opened which was the first of many such reviews.

The reviews by the Times were written by Ruth Reichl and Bryan Miller.