When Joel Harrington turned in his notice at Stephan Pyles, he had plans to take a higher paying gig in Beaver Creek, Colorado. He was conflicted. Harrington has two young kids in Dallas and he wanted to stay, but the big bucks were hard to pass up. Hark! “I start tomorrow at Charlie Palmer and The Joule,” Harrington says. “I am officially executive sous chef of The Joule, but I am basically going to be executive chef of the restaurant when the renovation is complete.” Fairy tales can come true!
UPDATE: This just in from the PR office at The Joule. “Official details for the executive chef will be released very soon.”
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Does that mean Richard Blankenship is leaving?
Waiting for return call from Joule.
renovation?
[...] Last week we talked about Joel Harrington taking on a new role as a chef at The Joule. The restaurant is in flux, changing from Charlie Palmer at The Joule to Charlie Palmer Steak. (CP has closed his famous Chicago joint. Guess he’s having a mid-life crisis. Good for him, enjoy it.) The now former and very talented sous chef Richard Blakenship left The Joule to head the kitchen at Cru in Uptown. Nice get, owner Patrick Colombo. “Yes, we courted him to oversee all of our locations, but for right now he is going to be at West Village,” says Colombo. “We just resigned our lease and will be renovating in the late spring. Eventually Blankenship will take a bigger role.” var OB_langJS = 'http://widgets.outbrain.com/lang_en.js'; var OBITm = '1320877210456'; var OB_raterMode = 'none'; var OB_recMode = 'rec'; var OutbrainPermaLink='http://sidedish.dmagazine.com/2012/01/09/chef-richard-blankenship-leaves-the-joule-and-heads-to-cru-in-west-village/'; if ( typeof(OB_Script)!='undefined' )OutbrainStart(); else { var OB_Script = true; var str = unescape("%3Cscript src='http://widgets.outbrain.com/OutbrainRater.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"); document.write(str); } [...]