Stories and recipes from a life in a professional kitchen
I fucked up. Maybe this New Year’s menu was a little too ambitious for the amount of experience my team has. Maybe I did not prepare them well enough to be able to accomplish the tasks necessary at the level necessary for everything to go smoothly. One thing is for sure. I’m the Chef, and …
We are closed for 2 days a week. For us, those days are Tuesday and Wednesday. In France, most restaurants are closed on Sunday and Monday. My wife and I wanted to be able to go out to a nice restaurant on our days off, so we closed in the middle of the week. That …
My first restaurant experience I knew nothing. I thought I did. I had been in culinary school for 9 months by the time I thought I had enough skills to get a paid job in a restaurant. Before culinary school, I had zero experience working in a restaurant. That was the reason I wanted to …
My Wife and I were talking one night about the possibility of our lives outside of the restaurant world. What are we going to do for money? (always the first thought) What about fun… what about all of the extra time, not in front of a stove or a cutting board cheating glances at the …