Angie Mar (born 1982) is an American chef and restaurateur. She owns and operates Les Trois Chevaux in

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Career

Mar was born and raised in

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. Before becoming a chef, she was based in

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as a real estate agent. She moved to New York in 2010 and enrolled at the French Culinary Institute. She subsequently worked at several restaurants in Brooklyn, including Reynard, Diner, and Marlow & Sons, before becoming

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. In 2013, she became the fourth

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at The Beatrice Inn in Manhattan, owned by '' Vanity Fair'' writer

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. Mar appeared on '' Chopped'' in 2015, emerging as champion in its "Grill Masters" tournament and winning $50,000 in prize money. In 2016, she and her cousin Melissa Merrill Keary bought over The Beatrice Inn. According to Mar, the idea of a takeover was suggested by Carter and his associates. Having previously given the restaurant zero stars out of four, ''

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'' critic Pete Wells praised Mar's ability to transform The Beatrice Inn into "one of the most celebratory restaurants in the city" and awarded it two stars, meaning "very good". In December 2016,

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named Mar "NYC Chef of the Year for 2016". ''

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'' listed her among the year's "Best New Chefs" in 2017. In 2018, the International Culinary Center in New York—which Mar had graduated from in 2011—awarded her the Outstanding Alumni Award for Excellence in Culinary Arts. Mar appeared on a cooking segment of ''

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'' in August 2018. In January 2019, a former bartender at The Beatrice Inn filed a lawsuit against Mar for alleged

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. The lawsuit was voluntarily dismissed without prejudice. Mar's first cookbook, ''Butcher + Beast'', was published on September 30, 2019. On May 11, 2020, Mar appeared on the telethon '' Rise Up New York!'' in support of New York residents affected by the

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. The Beatrice Inn closed in December 2020. In July 2021, Mar opened a French restaurant, Les Trois Chevaux, in

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Personal life

Mar's grandparents emigrated to the United States from China and her parents separated when she was 14. Her father, Roy, was a former naval officer and chef who worked at his sister

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's Chinese restaurant in Seattle. He later became a dentist and died in 2018. Her mother, Nancy, was raised in both

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and England. Mar has two younger brothers, Chad and Conrad, whose apparel company Autumn Studios partnered with The Beatrice Inn in late 2019 to produce a limited edition apparel for the restaurant.

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