Ad Hoc is a comfort food restaurant, with meals served family-style, in Yountville, California, opened in the fall of 2006.
The proprietor is top chef Thomas Keller, who is one of only three chefs in the world to have two restaurants earning three Michelin stars, the nearby French Laundry (also in Yountville) and per se in New York City.
When I first found out about Ad Hoc shortly after it opened in late 2006, I bookmarked it and labeled it "Thomas Keller's 'budget gourmet' restaurant" with the intention of trying it very soon. Not only was this the one Thomas Keller restaurant that then-teenage me could actually afford to check out, but word on the street was that Ad Hoc was just a temporary restaurant, and that Thomas Keller planned on remodeling it in early 2007, converting it into either a burger, sushi, or steak … more