The jerusalem chef delights the style buds from the Holy City to Paris by way of London, mixing Japanese and Western inspiration. Lately, he opened Tekes, a brand new fashionable restaurant with Israelite flavors. Acumen seems to be again on the career of this chef who has made his hometown his main inspiration.
“I was born and raised in Jerusalem and I really like this metropolis.” That’s what you possibly can read on the website of chef Assaf Granit, who seduces the entire of Paris together with his Levantine flavors, because of his restaurants, Shabour, Balagan, and lately, Tekes. In his household, cooking is a heritage that has been handed down from grandmother to grandmother and which has turn into, underneath the chef’s hat, a real reference. If the Holy Metropolis evokes the completed chef on the head of fourteen institutions – who additionally participates in three Israeli cooking exhibits, similar to Cauchemar en delicacies, like Philippe Etchebest or Gordon Ramsey – it is because it is residence to an immense variety of numerous cultures. Moroccans, Yemenis, Europeans… A mess of culinary traditions from here and elsewhere that have fed his cosmopolitan universe. He says he remembers his grandmother cooking with open home windows and discussing together with his neighbors totally different recipes with distant origins. An openness to the world, undoubtedly the inspiration that forges the creativity of nice cooks.
Self-taught, Assaf Granit launched himself into the world of gastronomy by working in the kitchens of Jerusalemite and European eating places earlier than opening his first restaurant within the city of David. He quickly opened two restaurants in London, five in his native nation and now has three restaurants in Paris, including Shabour, which was awarded a Michelin star in January 2021. Lately, he opened Tékes, a brand new assembly place where nature, emotion, and roots resonate with the magic method: “to provide back to the earth what it has the goodness to offer.” This is achieved by making crops the star of the plate. He revisits them, exploits them, perfumes them however, above all, handles them with love and respect. On this new restaurant, the flame sparks within the eyes of the friends: an open kitchen and ancestral cooking are the order of the day, providing an unforgettable olfactory spectacle. Until now, the restaurant has solely been open in the night, but this month it is going to supply a lunch break, a take-away, and a juice and cocktail bar. This can be a nice approach to get away from all of it for some time and try the reminiscences of the chef who has made his origins his culinary trademark.
Tekes
4bis rue Saint-Sauveur
75002 Paris
& https://www.tekesrestaurant.com/
Cheynnes Tlili
L’article Assaf Granit: his memories of Jerusalem est apparu en premier sur Galerie Joseph.
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