He was the co-owner of Corton restaurant in New York City and the subject of the documentary film, A Matter of Taste: Serving Up Paul Liebrandt.

[9] He also earned a reputation for eccentricity, in part for requiring diners to eat their prix fixe meals while bound and blindfolded.

[11] Liebrandt quit the restaurant after a few months when it dropped his avant-garde menu in favour of "burgers and fries", in response to diners' post-9/11 preference for comfort food.

[12] He opened his consulting company the Veda Group and worked as a private chef for Prince Andrew and Lord Rothschild.

[16] Corton closed in July 2013 when Chef Liebrandt left to open The Elm in Brooklyn in the McCarren Hotel & Pool.

[19][9] Food writer Andrew Friedman started discussions in 2011 about writing a book which will be published by Clarkson Potter in 2013.