Anita lo restaurant nyc
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MEET ANITA
Anita Lo, a first generation Chinese-American, grew up with her family in Birmingham, Michigan, and fostered an interest in food at a young age. While earning a degree in French language at Columbia University, she studied at Reid Hall—Columbia's French language institute in Paris. She fell in love with the food culture and vowed to return. Back in the United States, Lo accepted her first kitchen job as garde-manger at Bouley, and after a year, she decided to move back to Paris and enroll in Ecole Ritz-Escoffier, a revered culinary institution.
She received her degree, graduating first in her class with honors, while interning under Guy Savoy and Michel Rostang. Back in New York, Lo worked her way through all the stations at David Waltuck’s Chanterelle. She developed her culinary style during her time at Mirezi, where she earned a two-star review from Ruth Reichl at The New York Times.
In 2000, Lo opened Annisa (which means ''women'' in Arabic), an intimate, upscale restaurant in Greenwich Village serving Contemporary American cuisine. It
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Chef Anita Lo is a New York City legend, as was her West Village restaurant Annisa, which closed after holding court on Barrow Street for 17 years. In a day and age when great neighborhood restaurants are few and far between, Annisa was an unpretentious Michelin-starred refuge that turned first-timers into regulars and regulars into Lo loyalists.
It's been a little more than a year since the last foie gras soup dumpling was sent out on the pass, but the question on everyone's mind remains: Will we ever get to eat chef Anita Lo's food again?
The 2018 documentary The Heat: A Kitchen (R)evolution about female pioneers such as Lo—who has not only long been spoken out about women in the kitchen, but also people of color and members of the LGBTQ community—leading the charge in cooking's notorious boys' club, captures intimate footage of Annisa's last service and offers a glimpse at how beloved the restaurant really was.
"There is another table that would really love to meet you if possible," a server tells Lo as she's in the middle of directing the kitchen chao
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Anita Lo
American chef and restaurateur
Anita Lo is an American chef and restaurateur. In 2001, she was named by Food & Wine magazine one of ten "Best New Chefs in America".[1]
Biography
Early life
Anita Lo, a second-generation Malaysian American, grew up in Birmingham, Michigan.[2]
She graduated from Concord Academy and then from Columbia University, where she earned a degree in French literature.[3] While a student at the culinary school L’Ecole Ritz-Escoffier, she interned with top French chefs Guy Savoy and Michel Rostang.[1]
Lo identifies as lesbian.[4]
Career
After completing culinary school in Paris, Lo returned to New York where she worked at several restaurants including Chanterelle, Can, a French-Vietnamese restaurant, and Maxim's. She then moved to Mirezi restaurant, where she earned headlines and rave reviews from restaurant critics, including Ruth Reichl from The New York Times.[5]
In 2000, Anita Lo and her business partner Jennifer Scism opened Annisa in New York
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