Executive Chefs Max Natmessnig And Marco Prins Are Raising The Bar At Chef’s Table At Brooklyn Fare

A year after taking the helm at Chef’s Table at Brooklyn Fare, executive chefs Max Natmessnig and Marco Prins are serving up a gastronomical experience unlike any other.

Moe Issa founded the gourmet grocer Brooklyn Fare in Brooklyn in 2009, and Chef’s Table, the attached tasting menu restaurant, became the borough’s only Michelin three-star restaurant until it moved to Manhattan in 2016.

Chef’s Table at Brooklyn Fare continues to offer a tasting menu that emphasizes seafood, alongside other international delicacies, prepared using French techniques with Japanese product. All their product is flown in from Japan weekly. Natmessnig and Prins have brought their culinary ingenuity and mastery of European cooking styles to what is considered by many to be one of the most extraordinary meals in Manhattan.

Natmessnig and Prins previously worked alongside each other at the original Chef’s Table at Brooklyn Fare, before returning to oversee the restaurant’s reopening last year.

Natmessnig worked in kitchens in Holland, Paris, and Germany before working at the first Chef’s Table, and briefly returned to Europe before joining Chef’s Table once again. Prins, meanwhile, worked at Michelin-starred restaurants in New York and Europe before joining Chef’s Table at Brooklyn Fare in 2009.

Now, guests at the 18-seat counter and elegant booths in the dining room at the back of the Brooklyn Fare grocery store in Hudson Yards in Midtown Manhattan can get a full view of Natmessnig, Prins and their team of international chefs preparing the tasting menu’s 12 or more courses.

The Chef’s Table at Brooklyn Fare tasting menu starts at $345 per person. Wine pairings are optional, or guests can enjoy à la carte bottles from an award-winning selection of European wines focused on artisanal grower producers. Guests can also bring wine from their own collections with advance notice, with corkage fees starting at $175 for one 750 ml bottle.

TMX contributed to this story.