Downtown New York is home to an array of powerhouse female chefs that are changing the landscape of the culinary industry as we know it. Chefs making an impact on the dining culture of downtown include Divya Alter, whose restaurant Divya’s Kitchen serves food prepared in accordance to Shaka Vansiya Ayurveda, Amanda Cohen who has created the vegetarian spot Dirt Candy, Clare de Boer and Jess Shadbolt whose French-Italian restaurant King Restaurant features a menu that changes daily, and Chef Maria Tampakis, Executive Chef at Four Seasons New York Downtown, to name a few. Chef Amanda Cohen’s inventive Dirt Candy serves nothing but vegetables, executed in new and unexpected ways. The restaurant serves a single tasting menu, which changes seasonally, for dinner in the dining room and patio.
