As a meals designer, I firmly consider folks “eat with their eyes.” The extra interesting the colours, the textures, the show… the extra fulfilling each chew tastes. When meals is offered superbly, it could set off our appetites and stimulate our style buds, making the dish extra appetizing and fascinating. As people, we’re extremely visible creatures, and we frequently decide a dish primarily based on its look earlier than even taking a chew.
Lysée Bakery, positioned in New York’s Flatiron District, is a captivating and distinctive bakery that has gained a repute for its high-quality and visually stimulating pastries. Based by pastry chef Eunji Lee and chef and husband Matthieu Lobry, Lysée Bakery is understood for its delicate and scrumptious baked items which can be made with the best substances and an unimaginable consideration to element.
“I wished to have an area that corresponds to my identification and my dessert type: Korean-French-New Yorker,” says Lee, who spent ten years coaching and dealing in Paris, notably beneath Alain Ducasse and Cedric Grolet at Le Meurice, earlier than changing into the chief pastry chef on the two Michelin-starred Korean restaurant Jungsik in Tribeca.
The identify Lysée (lee-zay) is derived from the French phrase “Musee” which suggests “museum,” the right identify to encapsulate the gallery-like tackle the meticulously crafted pastry artwork on show.
The seasonally rotating menu is playful but executed with extremely technical type. 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 an ethereal corn crémeux piped over with a grilled corn cream to resemble the vegetable in its entirety.
Chef Eunji Lee in her NYC pastry store
“To me, pastry is an edible artwork.” says Chef Eunji Lee.
And thus, when getting into the sparse and refined boutique house itself, you are feeling such as you’ve walked into an artwork gallery in Chelsea. Reflecting related consideration to element and cultural influences that Lee brings to Lysée’s menu, the decor is a lovely concord of each conventional Korean tradition and fashionable NYC design.
“I wished to create a culturally significant house that can also be well-balanced and harmonious. We have now conventional Korean supplies, like a mother-of-pearl wall, a Korean wooden pillar from an historic conventional mansion in Korea, and used conventional [granite] stone [from Pocheon in Korea] for the underside of a desk. The design highlights the pastry as edible artwork, because the hero of the stage. Utilizing this very understated, minimalistic design places the emphasis on our pastries as the principle objects.”
There isn’t any query, Lee’s dessert “gallery,” the place her edible artwork is on full show is a delight for the eyes and style buds.
And to make it sweeter… Lysée simply introduced their first pop-up collaboration with chef Roy Shvartzapel. On March 11 and twelfth solely, the bakery will supply an unique, distinctive panettone menu for dine-in and take-out. Reservations can be found by means of Resy, and pre-orders will begin at 10am on Saturday Feb twenty fifth. Set your alarms!
Lysée bakery is positioned at 44 E twenty first Road, New York, NY 10010.
