Le Marais: A Rare Steakhouse - Well Done

by Mark Hennessey, Jose Meirelles

Overview

"Where else would a non-Jewish Portuguese immigrant open a French bistro, hire an Irish-Italian Catholic as its executive chef, and create one of the finest and most successful kosher restaurants in the United States?" As Hadassah and Joe Lieberman put it in their foreword to the Le Marais cookbook, this is "a classic New York story."

Get to know the personalities behind the Le Marais experience while learning how to create its incredible delicacies at home. In sections covering sauces; soups; salads; bread, pasta, and risotto; beef; classics; lamb; veal; poultry; fish; sides; and desserts, this beautifully illustrated cookbook gives you the techniques and recipes you'll need to bring French gourmet into the kosher kitchen (or any kitchen).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789652296368
Publisher:	Gefen Publishing House
Publication date:	01/15/2016
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	8.10(w) x 10.60(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

JOSÉ de MEIRELLES is executive chef and co-owner of Le Marais NY and Clubhouse Cafe. He has loved cooking since he was a small boy growing up in Porto, Portugal. Although he attended business school and became a banker, food and cooking remained a dominant passion, and in 1987 he graduated the French Culinary Institute in New York. After stints at the famed La Réserve, Maxim's, and Park Bistro, José decided to bring his classical style of cooking to the kosher community. He opened Le Marais NY in 1995 with Philippe Lajaunie in the Times Square area.

Editorial Reviews

The enormously successful Le Marais is a strictly kosher restaurant with great French food, plus a state-of-the-art butcher shop…quite a coup for Jose. Congratulations on a book well done and perfect for the home cook.

Personal - Chef Alain Sailhac

Le Marais is my favorite steakhouse in New York, kosher or not, and Jose Meirelles is a real mensch, Jewish or not.

Personal - Alan Richman

Le Marais is far and away the best steakhouse of its kind. Le Marais Cookbook is hilarious, irreverent and full of excellent recipes, stories and general advice; it belongs in your kitchen.

Personal - Chef Anthony Bourdain

Le Marais is one of those restaurant gems that you find that caters to all. Their first cookbook is filled with delicious recipes and in depth guidance on proper butchering and presentation of meat. Bravo to Jose and Mark!

Personal - Salvatore Rizzo

The beloved New York City restaurant made us wait over twenty years for this book. I am happy to say, it was worth the wait. Enjoy food for every course, in every season in a stunning tome that pays tribute to the talent and accomplishments of Mark Hennessey and Jose Meirelles . They gave a gift to kosher New York in Le Marais. Make this book a gift to yourself and recreate a bit of their magic in your own home.

Personal - Susie Fishbein

Le Marais epitomizes the New York story. Where else could a non-Jewish Portuguese immigrant open a French bistro, hire an Irish Italian Catholic as its executive chef, and create one of the finest and most successful kosher restaurants in the United States? Le Marais was one of the first new generation of excellent kosher restaurants. In Le Marais, Jose Meirelles and Mark Hennessey tell the story of Le Marais and share their recipes with the readers.

Le Marais is a unique experiment. It offers some of the best French and/or kosher food in one of the cities of restaurants. Le Marais chefs share their best recipes with their readers in Le Marais so that they can prepare and enjoy the same food at home. Le Marais is the book for food lovers.

Washington Book Review