The truth about what New Yorkers really want to eat bit Eleven Madison Park on its precious, plant-based butt this week, with the announcement that chef/owner Daniel Humm’s menu would no longer be exclusively vegan.

But what took them so long to come to their snooty senses?

For 15 years, Humm ran the kitchen at EMP to global acclaim, earning three Michelin stars and a spot atop the World’s 50 Best Restaurant list in 2017. Then, in 2021, he abruptly switched to a vegan menu.

It laid a big, fat egg — an item forbidden on vegan menus — with Big Apple critics, who ridiculed its three-hour, nine-course prix-fixe meal starting at $350 a head. 4

They particularly piled on a beet that was laboriously tweaked and tortured into a stand-in for duck — “cooked 18-ways [and tasting] like prett

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