![]() “This is too small for that, so Michel had to go back to his roots.”Ī post shared by Jenn Panawek was born in a small town above Nice where the Cote D’Azur hugs the Mediterranean. “We had a broader clientele that we had to please-a lot of families,” Patricia explains. For 15 years, they served up a mix of authentic French cuisine plus wood-fired pizza and burgers. The Jeans sold Provence and moved upstate in 2006 when they took over the historic Stissing House in Pine Plains. (The New Yorker once called the spot “a neighborhood institution that made its quiet corner of SoHo seem like a piece of French sovereign soil.”) ![]() That the restaurant, an homage to Jean’s home region, survived Manhattan’s fickle culinary whims that long is a testament to unboasting authenticity and expert execution. When the couple opened Provence on MacDougal Street in 1986, SoHo was a wildly different place than when they sold in the mid-aughts. “It’s really nice to be in a small space.” ![]() “This is our winding-down restaurant,” she says. ![]() On Pine Plains’s sleepy main drag in a shoebox building with no sign out front but an understated, cursive “Restaurant,” chef Michel Jean is dishing out the rustic, time-honored French food to delight even the most refined palette at Champetre.Īfter running an acclaimed SoHo brasserie for 20 years that was the gathering place for New York’s fashionable set, the switch to a 23-seat boite in rural Dutchess County is a considerable downshift for Michel and his wife Patricia Jean, who runs front-of-house. ![]()
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