Rebecca charles chef biography

Rebecca Charles is the Founder and Chef at Pearl Oyster Bar in New York.

“If any one event marked the dawn of this kind of oyster house, it was the opening of Pearl Oyster Bar in the West Village.

But when Rebecca, the “Lobster Whisperer,” reinvented the lobster roll, using a trained chef's techniques and the freshest ingredients she turned a New England.

Rebecca Charles is the owner and head chef of Pearl Oyster Bar in Greenwich Village, New York.

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And, as a chef with 25 years' cooking experience at the time, she also wanted a full service restaurant, not just a lunch counter.

Rebecca Charles, its founder and chef…inspired a new school of raw bars.” ~The New York Times

When Rebecca Charles opened Pearl Oyster Bar there wasn’t a lobster roll to be found in Manhattan. Charles reinvented Maine’s signature sandwich and other seaside staples from fried oysters and pan roasts to lobster stew, chowders and blueberry crumble pie.

Using a trained chef’s approach, she elevated what was previously thought of as simply “beach food.” Pearl, Rebecca’s version of the upscale lobster shack is the standard bearer for what has now become an international trend.

For Chef Charles, whose family has been summering on Gooch’s Beach in Kennebunk since 1917, New England seafood is not a “trend,” however.

It is a treasured part of her hist