Beatrice Inn Chef Buys the Restaurant From Its Owner

The genius who invented New York City's best velvety, lardy, crispy meat pies is finally the owner of the restaurant she transformed.

Angie Mar, executive chef of The Beatrice Inn for the past three years, bought the place this week from its former owner, Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter, Eater reports.

Mar was poached from The Spotted Pig to The Beatrice Inn as executive chef in 2013 to craft her own menu of rich, exotic meats. She "threw out the whole menu" and built it from scratch, she told Haute Living magazine in March. "I'm one of the few chefs in New York who will say I don’t love vegetables," she said. "What we really cook is meat, primarily beef. Our food is real. It has integrity behind it."

The Seattle-born chef is one of the only female minority chefs to own a restaurant in Manhattan.

When Mar began preparing the food at the Inn, reviews of the restaurant's food immediately improved. The menu is now full of unapologetically rich items like a 45-day dry-aged burger with red wine caramelized onions and d'affinois cheese on a brioche bun, and oxtail marmalade on toast with bechamel and crispy duck egg.

The Inn will be shut down starting Monday, Aug. 8 for about a month, Eater reported. Mar told Eater when she opens in September, there won't be big changes, but it will be "the best iteration of the Beatrice yet."

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