Alexia Duchêne explains how her family background & time cooking in Paris and London inform her personalized French cuisine at Le Chêne in NYC's West Village.
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Alexia Duchêne's West Village (NYC) restaurant Le Chêne opened about eight months ago, and has already found its rhythm as a home for Alexia's personalized yet unmistakably French cuisine. In this conversation, the still-young chef--who cooked in Paris and London before moving to the US--shares the familial and professional influences that helped unleash her culinary style; what her Top Chef experience was like; and some principles of hospitality that every aspiring chef and/or restaurateur should hear. She also discusses her love of New York City, and the journey that led her to open Le Chêne.
Episode host/producer: Andrew Friedman
Producer: Roderick Alleyne
Videographer/editor/mixer: Victor Michael Thelian