Pastry Special Awards 2023Pastry chef
Eunji Lee
Lysée
New York City, US
It’s not easy to bring something new to the city that never sleeps, but Korean-born, French-trained Eunji Lee does this over and over with her elegant and playful creations, from her famed ‘Baby Banana’ (banana sponge, chocolate ganache, coffee ice cream and banana crémeux) to her lifelike ‘Corn’ mousse cake, a product that takes three days to make and confirms Lee as a chef working at the very top of her game. She sells 400 of these a week at her Flatiron boutique, which she opened after training at Ze Kitchen Galerie and Le Meurice, before moving to New York’s modern Korean restaurant Jungsik in 2016. Her blend of French skill, Korean flavors, and twenty-first century whimsy marks Lee out as a pastry chef to watch.
