Sunday, August 19, 2012

Merchant Profile: Watermarc


Watermarc’s executive chef and owner Marc Cohen boasts quite the culinary trophy shelf, having been accumulating accolades since his days as a member of Johnson & Wales University’s gold-medal-winning Chine des Rotisseurs Culinary Olympic team. Since then, he has dazzled both East and West Coast diners with his distinctive “modern American cuisine where seafood rules.” At Watermarc, Cohen seamlessly blends the cutting edge with the classic, featuring innovative items such as the seafood sausage appetizer with cannellini beans and fluffy mustard alongside such classic fare as the filet three ways, which showcases traditional oscar, wellington, and diane preparations in a trio more powerful than the Three Tenors covering “We Will Rock You.”
With an open-air dining room, outdoor patio, and second-story terrace opening onto Peppertree Lane, Watermarc offers a mix of environments where diners can relax with one of the eatery’s original cocktails or upwards of 100 wines. The Hot Lips martini burns with Smirnoff Passion vodka and sliced jalapeño tempered by frosty mango puree and grenadine; in the classic Hemingway, sophisticated Bacardi light rum and maraschino liqueur look on coolly as grapefruit and lime juices grapple with one another amid the rocky terrain of an icy tumbler. Watermarc opens its doors and, weather permitting, front windows for lunch, dinner, and late-night noshing, as well as for private parties on the terrace.

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