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Chef Patrick Quillec has
taken the helm of this wonderful café
to bring us his sumptuous creations.
Executive
Chef Patrick Quillec takes his classic French techniques, learned at an
early age by his mother’s side in the port city of Brest, France,
and refines them for today’s palate. In addition to featuring the
“classics”, with butter and cream, he updates sauces with lighter
broths, flavored oils, and vegetable and fruit essences. The result is
unbridled creativity, intensity of flavor, and ultimately, food
that tastes of the enthusiasm and love with which it is prepared.
Quillec’s
culinary creativity has found various outlets throughout the U.S., from
Florida (at the famous French connection), to Charlotte where
he opened Chez Daniel with his brother and later the Artist’s Café, both award
winning restaurants), to south Georgia where
he became a favorite of former President Jimmy Carter). That experience has
taught him about the richness of American
regional
fare and the great variety of fresh ingredients available. Working with some
of this country’s greatest chefs in some of the
finest
restaurants, he has earned numerous distinctions, including “America’s
Outstanding Chefs” and “America’s Finest Restaurant”
honors
from the Chefs in America. He
has also passed on his techniques and love of cooking as a culinary
professor to young chefs at
the New England Culinary Institute, in Burlington Vermont.
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