6/9/2023 0 Comments Coco and the cellar bar“I work backward a lot of times,” Thayer said. While he says that there are more pressing tasks at hand - such as getting all the necessary permits and getting the building up to code, constructing the kitchen and picking out a wedding suit - he will base the menu off what’s fresh at the farmer’s market. Thayer plans on implementing a similar approach when it comes to building Hunt & Gather’s menu. “The pinnacle of my experience in San Francisco was being able to go to the farmer’s market every morning and find what the menu was going to be that day.” “That was quite an experience, opening up a restaurant for the first time being the chef de cuisine,” Thayer said. restaurant to receive three Michelin stars - asked Thayer to help her open a second restaurant, called Petit Crenn. After a year, the chef-owner, Dominique Crenn - the first female head chef of a U.S. In 2014, Thayer moved to San Francisco with Fuhrman to work at a now three-star Michelin Guide restaurant, Atelier Crenn. “It was my first introduction in the big chef world and I really cut my teeth there.” “It was a crazy busy restaurant, a lot was demanded of you and I learned a lot in a short period of time,” Thayer said. Then, Thayer worked for nearly two years at Clio (now known as Uni) under famed chef Ken Oringer, also in Boston. Hunt & Gather is tentatively slated to open around the end of the year, is the culmination of a 14-year culinary journey that has brought Thayer to Boston and San Francisco as a chef for various distinguished and award-winning restaurants.Ī Hadley native who graduated from Johnson & Wales in 2009 with a bachelor’s degree in food service management, Thayer went on to work for three years at a steakhouse on Beacon Hill called Mooo. Currently, Thayer is cooking part-time at Coco and the Cellar Bar on Main Street after nearly a year-and-a-half of cooking full time for the two restaurants. “I am extremely excited with what’s happening in Easthampton with food,” Thayer, 31, of Northampton, said on Thursday. EASTHAMPTON – Aaron Thayer has a lot on his plate for 2019.īetween preparing for his wedding in October and opening a new restaurant at 77-79 Union Street, called Hunt & Gather, 2019 will be a year of major milestones for Thayer and his fiancee, Abby Fuhrman.
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