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Check out these women owned restaurants throughout the NY/NJ tri-state area.
Originally from Thailand, chef Suchanan Aksornnan (aka Chef Bao Bao) studied French culinary techniques, and she effortlessly fuses the two cuisines into upscale yet approachable pan-Asian fare at her Greenpoint restaurant. Dim sum, bao, and hot pots are all on the menu, but noodle dishes, like seared duck-breast ramen in black truffle consommé and rib-eye pho in bone marrow broth best show off Chef Bao Bao’s technique and creativity. Available for takeout, delivery, and outdoor dining.
Address: 614 Manhattan Ave., Brooklyn
Website: baoburg.com
Owned by Harlem native Yvette Leeper-Bueno, this Harlem restaurant is dedicated to boosting other female entrepreneurs, by spotlighting small-batch distillers and wine producers. A Northern European-inspired menu includes several dishes that pair well with wine, including whole burrata salad, spicy veal meatballs and rosemary-laced pappardelle in lamb ragu. Currently available for delivery, takeout, and outdoor seating.
Address: 2211 Frederick Douglass Blvd
Website: vinaterianyc.com
Downtown restaurateurs Rita Sodi and Jody Williams partnered up for this charming hub for pasta and veggies, born out of the chefs’ shared love for Italian food. The cacio e pepe is known to be life-changing, as are the various elegantly prepared seasonal vegetables, like grilled radicchio with goat cheese, currants, and pine nuts. Currently offering outdoor dining and takeout.
Address: 51 Grove St.
Address: viacarota.com
Three queens run the show at this downtown bistro: chef Clare de Boer, chef Jess Shadbolt, and general manager Annie Shi. King presents the type of gorgeously plated, flawlessly prepared food you’d expect at a chic European café, with a daily-evolving dinner and lunch menu inspired by southern France and Italy. Deceptively simple yet hugely flavorful dishes can include tagliarini twirled with slow-cooked tomato sauce, wild halibut with grilled asparagus, lentils, and anchovy, and the recently Insta-popular pink chicory salad. Currently offering delivery, pickup, and outdoor dining.
Address: 18 King St.
Website: kingrestaurant.nyc
Chef Amanda Cohen’s legendary restaurant might be the most fun you can possibly have with edible plants. Seriously. Some of the current dishes on offer include beet reuben, sweet potato torta, beet chocolate chunk cookie, green goddess cake, and kitchen sink salad. Now offering outdoor dining, delivery, and takeout.
Address: 86 Allen St.
Website: dirtcandynyc.com
Leia Gaccione is doing double duty as a chef in New Jersey. She owns and operates two restaurants, South + Pine in Morristown and Central + Main in Madison, and recently hosted the documentary mini-series “Her Name is Chef” about the reality of life as a woman in food. A graduate of the New York Restaurant School, Gaccione worked her way up New York ranks, largely in the kitchens of Bobby Flay where she worked as both chefs de cuisine and executive chef. Her chosen territory, we’re happy to say, is the Garden State, though, with the documentary, we wouldn’t be surprised to see her increasingly on a national stage.
Aishling Stevens spent 11 years cooking in Australia, but we proudly have the Jersey native back home. Not only did Stevens re-immerse herself in the Garden State culinary scene, but she also took the helm of the entire Crystal Springs Resort, succeeding Anthony Bucco and becoming the first female chef to oversee the resort’s multiple kitchens. Stevens started cooking at the age of 12 and has been going on strong for close to three decades now, and—whatever the continent—has made an art of mutually beneficial producer relationships. From Noosa in Queensland to the Walpole Arms in the U.K. to Crystal Springs and Restaurant Latour, Stevens cultivates genuinely, productively close partnerships with farmers and producers.
Ariane Duarte very quickly gets the moniker “Top Chef alum” attached to her, which is fine (and accurate, as Duarte was on the show’s fifth season). But that tends to focus things too sharply on TV, where Duarte’s actual CV extends a lot farther. The Culinary Institute of America graduate cut her chops in New York, New Jersey, Texas, and Chicago, where she worked for the late Charlie Trotter. Out on her own, Duarte made a name for herself as the executive chef of Vine in New York for five years, eventually opening up CulinAriane catering in 2006, and, after nine years, transitioning that concept (very successfully) into the casual, creative Ariane Kitchen & Bar in Verona in 2014. TV appearances have continued—she competed on “Beat Bobby Flay” in 2015—but Duarte continues to prove her passion burns alongside the fires in her kitchen.
New York’s first and only Druze restaurant is run and owned by Gazala Halabi, an immigrant from Israel and one of the very few Druze people to ever to permanently leave the Middle East. Familiar Middle Eastern and Mediterranean fare, like stuffed grape leaves, crisp falafel, tangy labneh, bourekas the size of your face, and super-thin pita are all made by Halabi herself. Currently offering pickup and delivery.
Two locations; gazalasrestaurant.com
Born and raised in Mexico City, chef, and owner Barbara Sibley has long been a collector of traditional, rare, and ancient Mexican recipes. It is these dishes and the recipes that she misses most from her childhood that appear on the eclectic menu (think: flavor-packed tacos, fresh salsas, and rich moles). Currently open for pickup, delivery, indoor and outdoor seating.
Multiple locations; lapalapa.com