Overwhelming Hospitality.

Chef Angie Mar is renowned for her vision and unequivocally modern interpretation of classic fine dining. Her commitment to quality, ingenuity and pursuit of excellence in food and hospitality have earned her countless accolades. 

She has spent the majority of her life finding new ways to fall in love with food. Early on in her childhood, she became enamored with French cuisine and tradition, and has spent the bulk of her career exploring the nuances of its cooking techniques, while integrating it with her deep rooted Chinese heritage and extensive travels. 

Chef Mar’s highly anticipated second restaurant, Les Trois Chevaux, opened in July 2021 in New York’s Greenwich Village, to wide acclaim and numerous accolades, including being named Best New Restaurant in America by Esquire, Robb Report and Condé Nast Traveler. 

Mar’s career in Greenwich Village has spanned the course of over 15 years. While deciding to relocate Les Trois Chevaux uptown, maintaining a presence in a beloved neighborhood was of utmost importance. Therefore, she opened Restaurant Le B. in Autumn 2023 in the original Greenwich Village location, with a sleek, downtown reimagined space. 

Restaurant Le B. has quickly earned a coveted Four Stars from Forbes, and numerous Best New Restaurant titles from Condé Nast Traveler, the Financial Times, The Robb Report, and 50 Best In America from Esquirefor its Bar Program.

A hallmark of Mar’s cuisine, is both refinement and elegance, and yet approachably familiar. Combining the flavors of Mar’s Asian heritage with French technique, the food remains firmly stanced in Americana, with an undeniably global perspective. Critic Helen Rosner of The New Yorker recently wrote, “It takes vision to pull off something like this, both a reclamation and a subversion, especially without sacrificing even an ounce of glamour.” 

Working closely with members of the arts and fashion communities, Mar has forged strong partnerships with designers such as Fernando Garcia and Laura Kim from Oscar de La Renta, who worked closely on Mar’s book, and Christian Siriano, who designed the uniforms for Restaurant Le B.. Christofle and Lanvin have also been longtime supporters and partners of Mar, hosting an annual, coveted invitation to her Lunar New Year celebrations. 

Mar is the niece of and shares the same birthday as the legendary restaurateur and politician Ruby Chow, who was widely known in the Seattle community for her tireless work in Civil rights, equal opportunity for Asian Americans, women of color, and the LGBTQ community. Ruby was an integral figure in Mar’s early life, teaching her the values of community involvement, advancement of underrepresented groups, and charity work. Kin On Nursing Home, the Chinese Girl’s Drill Team, and City Harvest are all charities that Mar is involved with today, and the two former are legacies of the Mar & Chow Families. Chef Mar’s father Roy, fostered her love of cooking and food, and many of her dishes today reflect his sensibilities in the kitchen. Her mother, Nancy, grew up between Taipei and Oxford, and Chef Mar often credits her for her obsession with fashion, art, and travel. That endless curiosity for new culture has led Mar to travel the world over, spending time with some of the best restaurant industry professionals, artists and artisans in Europe, Asia and America. 

Mar’s stewardship of the Beatrice Inn began in 2013, she took over the helm of New York City’s iconic restaurant, later purchasing it from then owner Graydon Carter in 2016. Under her stewardship, her name became synonymous with the love of meat and game, and the nearly century-old restaurant went on to become one of the most coveted reservations in the city, immediately earning a glowing two-star review from The New York Times that year. She was named Food & Wine Magazine’s Best New Chef in 2017, and is a James Beard Foundation Nominee. Her innovative whiskey dry aging technique that she has developed and championed is Michelin recognized, and renowned the world over, earning her first restaurant, The Beatrice Inn, the reputation of being the standard for dry aged beef. 

Let us bring you to a place you never knew you needed. 

The experience of dining is one that speaks to our innermost desires. It is our fervent belief that our best memories, best friendships, great loves, and pivotal moments can be found when at a dinner table. Truly wonderful dining is not just about the cuisine and the wine. For us, what defines a remarkable dining experience is the connection that is made between those telling the story, and those experiencing it. It’s about the emotional and cerebral reaction that one has while being utterly transported by the atmosphere, the stories that are told while breaking bread and drinking wine. It has been our goal to give this experience to each and every guest by building a team that genuinely cares about our home, our vision, and ensuring that our guests are welcomed into it and showing them the world that we have created.

This approach starts from the beginning, and is embodied from our relationships with our farmers, foragers, purveyors and partners. Our chefs are focused on the meticulous details of the finest ingredients and technique, a practice that has been cultivated from the ground up. We believe that the foundation of a wonderful restaurant experience begins with an unwavering attention to detail, and 

the pursuit of excellence.  

For us, the act of cooking has always been one of love, passion and nourishment for the body, mind and soul. So to the art of serving is one that we take great pride and honor in. We believe that dining should reconnect you with experiences, memories, feelings and nostalgia that you may have forgotten. And, ultimately, that it should bring you to places that you never knew your soul needed to go.

Restaurant Le B. is located in the historic Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. One of only eleven restaurants in New York City to be awarded a coveted Four Stars by Forbes. Le B. has also received numerous Best New Restaurant accolades from Robb Report, Condé Nast, Financial Times, and Esquire Magazine. Le B. focuses on Continental cuisine, executed with French technique. The menu puts a distinct focus on the land and sea, and is a culmination of Mar's Chinese heritage and her French training. 

Chef Mar’s first book, Butcher & Beast: Mastering the Art of Meat, was released in October 2019 to wide acclaim and was nominated for a coveted IACP Award. The book, shot by award winning photographer Johnny Miller, offers a window into the nocturnal world of New York City restaurants, Mar’s undying love of fashion and art, and essays on her deeply rooted family and sheer addiction for New York hospitality.

Butcher & Beast was honored in 2023 as part of an exhibit at the FIT Museum in New York City, as part of the Food & Fashion Exhibit.

Butcher & Beast: Mastering the Art of Cookery & Hospitality is a weekly publication for subscribers, with recipes, techniques, and stories from Chef Mar's almost 20 years in the restaurant industry in New York City. 

As part of the G.O.A.T. Series for MasterClass, in 2024 Chef Mar showed the world the process of creating her iconic Le Burger. Originally created in the fall of 2013 for her original cult favourite restaurant, The Beatrice Inn, Le Burger has stood the test of time, and remains one of the most talked about burgers in New York City. 

The series not only takes guests through the process of creation, but also the history of Chef Mar's family, and her culinary journey.