As a meals designer, I firmly consider that folks ‘eat with their eyes’. The extra enticing the colours, the textures, the show… the higher every chunk tastes. When meals is introduced fantastically, it will possibly whet our urge for food and stimulate our style buds, making the dish tastier and extra fascinating. As people, we’re very visible creatures and we regularly decide a dish by its look earlier than even taking a chunk of it.
Bakery Lysee, situated in New York’s Flatiron District, is an enthralling and distinctive bakery that has constructed a fame for its high-quality and visually stimulating pastries. Based by pastry chef Eunji Lee and chef and husband Matthew FoyerLysée Bakery is understood for its delicate and scrumptious baked items made with the best elements and unimaginable consideration to element.
“I wished to have an area that mirrored my identification and my dessert model: Korean-French-New Yorker,” says Lee, who skilled and labored in Paris for a decade, most notably beneath Alain Ducasse and Cedric Grolet at Le Meurice, earlier than turning into chef change into a pastry chef on the two-Michelin-starred Korean restaurant Jungsik in Tribeca.
The title Lysée (lee-zay) is derived from the French phrase “Musee”, which means “museum”, the proper title to encapsulate the gallery-like tackle the meticulously crafted patisserie artwork on show.
The seasonally altering menu is playful but executed with a extremely technical model. From their signature mousse cake made with Korean toasted brown rice mousse with caramel, to the corn mousse dessert that went viral on social media, whose corn sablé is topped with a fluffy corn cremeux topped with a grilled corn creme to resemble the vegetable entire.
Chef Eunji Lee at her New York pastry store
“Paisserie is an edible artwork for me.” says Chef Eunji Lee.
And so, upon getting into the sparse and complex boutique area itself, you’re feeling such as you’ve walked right into a Chelsea artwork gallery. Reflecting the identical consideration to element and cultural influences Lee brings to Lysée’s menu, the decor is an exquisite concord of each conventional Korean tradition and fashionable NYC design.
“I wished to create a culturally significant area that can also be balanced and harmonious. Now we have conventional Korean supplies, akin to mother-of-pearl wall, Korean picket pillar from an outdated conventional mansion in Korea, and conventional [granite] stone [from Pocheon in Korea] for the underside of a desk. The design emphasizes the pastry as edible artwork, because the hero of the stage. Utilizing this very understated, minimalistic design emphasizes our pastries as an important objects.”
There isn’t any query that Lee’s dessert gallery, the place her edible artwork is on full show, is a feast for the eyes and the style buds.
And to make it even sweeter… Lysée simply introduced their first pop-up collaboration with chef Roy Shvartzapel. On March 11 and 12 solely, the bakery will probably be providing an unique, one-of-a-kind panettone menu for dine-in and takeout. Reservations can be found via Resy and pre-orders start at 10am on Saturday, February 25. Set your alarm clocks!
Lysée Bakery is situated at 44 E twenty first Avenue, New York, NY 10010.
