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Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Ex-Pearl chef bound for NYC
Chef Ari Weiswasser (right) with Pearl co-owner Scott Stein last summer. (Ed Hille / INQUIRER)

Ari Weiswasser, who endured the drama that was Pearl, is relocating to NYC to become exec sous chef at Corton in TriBeCa. He'll be #2 in the kitchen at the restaurant owned by Drew Nieporent and chef Paul Liebrandt.

Before helping to open Pearl -- which is now a Japanese gastropub called Akaya, with a nightclub upstairs called Pearl -- the Gladwyne-raised Weiswasser, 29, was chef at the late Striped Bass. He previously cooked at Le Bec-Fin and at NYC's Picholine and Daniel.

In an e-mail, Weiswasser thanked Philly for the warm reception.

Posted by Michael Klein @ 10:17 AM  Permalink | File Under: TableTalk | 1 comment
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Posted 01:50 PM, 02/24/2009
Brett P
Congratulations to an excellent chef! There is no doubt that Ari will shine on one of the world's biggest stages.
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Michael Klein chronicles local people, places and things (in easy-to-digest portions) three days a week in his Inquirer column "INQlings." He also covers the restaurant scene in his Thursday Food column, "Table Talk." See his work at http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/michael_klein.
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