It’s a temple of haute cuisine!
Back in April Page Six reported that Miami was getting its first-ever kosher beach club, Nana Kosher Beach Club.
Now we hear that the woman behind that project, Olivia Ostrow, is launching a “sexy” global kosher restaurant group with famed chef, Todd English.
We’re told the restaurant, French English, is expected to have outposts in Miami, New York, Tel Aviv, Dubai, Paris and London.
“Todd and I have known each other for years; with mutual respect and mutual curiosity,” says Ostrow told us. “I’ve always admired how he built a global culinary brand, and he was intrigued by what I was doing in Miami with modern, elevated, actually-sexy kosher cuisine. At some point, it just clicked — why hasn’t anyone created a chef-driven, international kosher brand with global credibility? That’s what we’re building.”
Under the new partnership, English joins Ostrow Global Inc., as a creative and strategic partner, developing new concepts and lending his network across hotels, resorts, airports, and so on.
As well as his famed Olives restaurants, English has opened dozens of eateries in businesses from department stores to hotels to cruise ships. (He’s also known for his colorful personal life, which Page Six has covered at great length).
“Todd isn’t just guest-starring — he’s coming in to amplify what we’ve built,” Ostrow added. “We’re mixing our culinary DNA. He brings reach, talent, and operational muscle to help turn one great kosher brasserie in Miami into a group.”
She said that restaurants will mix French refinement and English (the nationality, not the chef, in this case) “accessibility.”
“Menus will have French structure — hors d’oeuvres, entrées, plats, sharing plates — but
English-style approachability with crudos, raw bar, killer steak, and sexy sides,” Ostrow says.
“If Nobu could make Japanese luxury global, French English can make kosher global,” she adds, “We want people to stop saying ‘for kosher, it’s good.’ We want to prove that kosher can finally sit at the big table.”
The brand launches with a dinner and press night on December 18 at Ostrow’s Maison Ostrow in Miami, with proceeds from the event benefiting Sharsheret, a national nonprofit dedicated to supporting Jewish women and families facing breast cancer and ovarian cancer.
After that’s they’re planning to open a location in New York.
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