Leah Cohen is known to New Yorkers as the former executive chef at Centro Vinoteca, and to the rest of the nation as a runner-up on Season 5 of
Top Chef. She spent the last year cooking, eating, and trekking around Southeast Asia (
and keeping a travel blog) and now returns to New York to open a Gramercy restaurant that showcases "the bold flavors of Asian street food." But in the meantime, she's previewing the menu of that restaurant at
LTO, the semi-permanent Chinatown establishment that opened earlier this year as a space for chefs to rotate through in a series of one-week pop-up stints.
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September 18: Leah Cohen, Top Chef Season 5 almost-finalist and one half of the Leah-and-Hosea saga, announces she's leaving her executive chef position at Centro Vinoteca for a "months-long" sabbatical. September 23: Hosea Rosenberg, Top Chef Season 5 winner and...
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A news bite for Top Chef fans: Season Five cheftestant Leah Cohen will be leaving the position of Executive Chef at Centro Vinoteca. "Cursory plans include possible months-long stints in Spain, Italy, and Asia to further enhance her knowledge and...
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Aperitivi at Centro Vinoteca Ever since I returned from Italy, I've been searching for a good aperitivo hour—that wonderful time of the evening when bars and cafés deliver free bite-sized snacks along with your cocktail. Of course, plenty of...
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