Boulud opened "Daniel" in Manhattan's Upper East Side in 1993, before relocating the restaurant to a Venetian renaissance-inspired setting at Park Avenue and 65th Street in 1998. The original "Daniel" was re-launched as the Café Boulud. He followed these openings by founding a more casual restaurant in Manhattan's theater district in 2001, and a second-second Café Boulud in Palm Beach, Florida, in 2003. Daniel Boulud Brasserie opened in 2005 inside the Wynn Las Vegas, three years before Bar Boulud, a French bistro opposite New York City's Lincoln Center, was opened in January 2008, the same year he opened Boulud à Pékin in Beijing.