tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21231692132314048812024-03-04T22:03:57.519-08:00HS CafeChris Hebert's HS Caféhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16033814978904217404noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2123169213231404881.post-53303574532571163132010-09-22T22:20:00.000-07:002010-11-13T17:29:33.628-08:00HS CaféTucked discreetly in the back of the antique-and-vintage furniture emporium, Hudson Supermarket, is Chris Hebert's delectable HS Café -- serving up mouth-watering Mexican in portions large enough to sustain a visitor all the way up Warren Street. Already a neighborhood favorite, HS Café has been gathering a regular following of nearby seasonal visitors as well as the lucky weekender who (accidentally while looking for a grocery store item) stumbles through the carnival of antiques, locates the quirky grouping of tables and consumes with high appreciation the excellent food and welcoming charm of the Café.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">Hudson Supermarket Café</div><div style="text-align: center;">Chef, Chris Hebert</div><div style="text-align: center;">310 Warren Street, Hudson, NY 12534</div><div style="text-align: center;">(518) 822-8008</div><ul></ul><br />
<div></div>Chris Hebert's HS Caféhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16033814978904217404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2123169213231404881.post-55403722675192606252010-09-21T22:37:00.000-07:002011-08-22T04:08:49.678-07:00MENU<div style="color: white; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: green; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 24pt;"> HS Café Dinner Menu</span></b><b><span style="color: green; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: green; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 14pt;"> Saturday August 27th 2011</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
<div style="color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 16pt;"> Starter</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: white; font-family: 'Courier New';"> Guacamole salsa chips</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: white; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 16pt;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 16pt;"> Appetizer</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New';"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New';"><span style="color: white;"> <span style="font-size: small;">Soup </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New';"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;">Chef's Choice</span></span></div><br />
<span style="color: white;"> Torta de Masa</span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New';"> <span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Courier New;">A masa caserole of shredded pork, raisins,</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New;">almonds, olives and roasted tomatoes </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New;">topped with a poblano cream</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New;">Queillo Asado en Salsa Verde</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New;">roasted cheese in a </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New;">tomatillo sauce</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><div style="color: white;"><span style="color: white; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 16pt;">Main Course</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><div style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: white;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New; font-size: large;">Filete Relleno de Salpicon</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New;">Seasoned red snapper fillet stuffed </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New;">with a shredded crab mixture</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New;">then baked</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"> </span></div><div style="color: white;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New; font-size: large;">Filete al Chipotle</span></div><span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New;">seared beef fillet served</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New;">on a corn tortilla in a chipotle , ancho,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New;"> tomatillo sauce and topped with </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New;">melted cheese</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New; font-size: large;">Lomo de Puerco Relleno</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New;"> Roasted pork loin stuffed with a pork,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New;">tomato, raisin and almond mixture</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New;">basted with ancho chile sauce</span><br />
<span style="color: white;"> <span style="font-family: 'Courier New';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: small;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: white; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 16pt;"> Vegetarian option </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="color: white;"> <span style="font-size: small;">Please pre-order at reservation</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span> </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: large;"> </span> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: white; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 16pt;"> Dessert</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: white;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: white;"> <span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt;"> This will be a prix-fixe menu @ $38/person + tax & gratuity</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: white; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt;"> First reservation @ 7:00 pm</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: white; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt;"> Please reserve early seating limited</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: white;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 14pt;"> HS Café </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"> <span style="font-size: small;"> 310 Warren St. Hudson, NY 518.822.0028</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #274e13;"></span></div>Chris Hebert's HS Caféhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16033814978904217404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2123169213231404881.post-28129176100870471232010-09-20T22:52:00.000-07:002011-03-28T09:36:56.867-07:00HOURS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4vyUJ__M04VijHYv2x5Q-rNy7b0XzQyl0s567IFKtj9lppAhqdKX_RMA0zNhzE3jV6gb8HTgfiKKeXn2SCBImaceCZ0brU1Ze5YPQqO8GfvAfhhyphenhyphen4ZJp1WXrH3CjcpBli2TC5-QGgneg/s1600/HS+Cafe+Bottles+Rdcd.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4vyUJ__M04VijHYv2x5Q-rNy7b0XzQyl0s567IFKtj9lppAhqdKX_RMA0zNhzE3jV6gb8HTgfiKKeXn2SCBImaceCZ0brU1Ze5YPQqO8GfvAfhhyphenhyphen4ZJp1WXrH3CjcpBli2TC5-QGgneg/s320/HS+Cafe+Bottles+Rdcd.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">OPEN:</span><br />
<ul><li>Thursday, Friday, Sunday Noon - 5:00 pm</li>
<li>Saturday 11:00 am - 6:00 pm</li>
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<ul><li>Available for private dinner parties. Please call for details, 518-822-8008.</li>
</ul>Chris Hebert's HS Caféhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16033814978904217404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2123169213231404881.post-42287754284692543162010-09-19T22:33:00.000-07:002010-10-04T15:28:20.136-07:00PRESS<b>TRAVEL & LEISURE, Oct. 2010 --</b> "In the back of the Hudson Supermarket, a 7,000-square-foot antiques and vintage accessories emporium, interior designer Chris Hebert, who once ran the furniture shop Toad Hall at New York City’s ABC Carpet & Home, has opened a Mexican-cuisine counter simply called Café at Hudson Supermarket. “Oh, I went to Mexico, learned to cook,” the pleasantly burly and jovial chef tells me. The whole designer-to-cook transformation would be ripe for satire if his mentor weren’t Diana Kennedy, the goddess of Mexican cuisine. I find myself meditating on a complex roasted-poblano pork soup in the back of what began life as a 1950’s supermarket but is now an antiques store offering “unique shopping for the urban nomad.” All in all, just another Hudson afternoon." <a href="http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/escape-to-new-yorks-hudson-valley/3">Click here for Travel & Leisure article.</a><br />
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<b>RURAL INTELLIGENCE, by Marilyn Bethany, June 2010</b> -- Customers to [HS Café], a lunch place tucked in the back of a lifestyle store, can’t believe their good fortune. “All this for ten bucks?,” marvels a shop owner from down the block as he whisks his steaming lunch back to his store. Exactly; for a sawbuck, no one has a right to expect such finesse: An <span class="yshortcuts"><span id="lw_1285960547_5" style="-moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; background-attachment: scroll; cursor: pointer;">arugula salad</span></span> with a peppery citrus dressing and a garnish of <span class="yshortcuts"><span id="lw_1285960547_6" style="-moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; background-attachment: scroll; cursor: pointer;">toasted pecans</span></span> and coarsely chopped, locally-grown apples and radishes; pork marinated in an ancho chili sauce then slow cooked with banana and avocado leaves; fish for tacos that first has been sautéed with chili d’arbol and garlic, then dressed in a lime juice, lemongrass, and serrano chili vinaigrette. <span class="yshortcuts"><span id="lw_1285960547_7" style="-moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; background-attachment: scroll; cursor: pointer;">Owner Chris Hebert</span></span> studied Mexican cookery with the redoubtable <span class="yshortcuts"><span id="lw_1285960547_8" style="cursor: pointer;">Diana Kennedy</span></span>, who did for <span class="yshortcuts"><span id="lw_1285960547_9" style="-moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; background-attachment: scroll; cursor: pointer;">authentic Mexican food</span></span> what <span class="yshortcuts"><span id="lw_1285960547_10" style="cursor: pointer;">Julia Child</span></span> did for authentic French, and it shows in his work.<br />
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<b>REGISTER STAR, by Andrew Amelinckx, April 2010 --</b><br />
“I want to introduce people to real Mexican cooking,” said Chris Hebert, chef and owner of the Café at Hudson <span class="yshortcuts"><span id="lw_1285960547_17" style="-moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; background-attachment: scroll; cursor: pointer;">Supermarket</span></span>.<br />
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Hebert’s new restaurant is located in the back of the 7,000 square foot Hudson Supermarket, an antique and vintage furnishings market featuring the items of 12 dealers and located at <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">310 Warren St.</st1:address></st1:street> in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Hudson</st1:place></st1:city>.<br />
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The space is owned by Able Sun, Hebert’s partner in the business.<br />
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According to Hebert, the Café features “high-end” Mexican dishes with his own interpretation. He believes that many people haven’t really experienced Mexican cuisine, <br />
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“A lot of Americans think of Mexican as tacos and burritos,” he said.<br />
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Hebert considers Mexican to be “one of the great (World) cuisines,” on par with both Thai and French food.<br />
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He said he loves it for its freshness as well as its versatility — from simple dishes to those with multi-layered, complex flavors.<br />
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“There’s a whole world of Mexican food,” he said.<br />
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While this is his first restaurant, Hebert said he has always had an affection for Mexican food and took cooking classes with Diana Kennedy 10 years ago in <span id="lw_1285960547_19" style="cursor: pointer;"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span class="yshortcuts">Mexico</span></st1:place></st1:country-region></span>.<br />
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Kennedy is a renowned chef, author and authority on Mexican cooking.<br />
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Since that experience, he said, his repertoire has continued to grow.<br />
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“Over time I’ve pulled together these dishes,” he said. “It’s time to put it to good use.”<br />
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Hebert said he was especially fond of cooking dishes that come from <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Mexico</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s Yucatán region as well as Mayan recipes.<br />
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One of his favorites to cook is Budin Azteca, a dish made of chicken, cheese, and peppers layered between corn tortillas.<br />
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It was on the menu the day my wife and two of our friends were there for lunch.<br />
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Other items included Tarascan tortilla soup made with a grilled tomato base, <span id="lw_1285960547_20" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="yshortcuts">Chile Rellenos</span></span> with a shrimp and ancho sauce and Puerco Barbacoa — slow cooked chunks of pork that were sweet and spicy and practically melted in your mouth.<br />
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Originally from <st1:country-region w:st="on">Canada</st1:country-region>, the 41-year-old Hebert moved from <span id="lw_1285960547_21"><st1:city w:st="on"><span class="yshortcuts">New York City</span></st1:city></span> to Freehold, in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Greene</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">County</st1:placetype></st1:place>, eight years ago.<br />
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His background is in interior design, a career he’s had for two decades.<br />
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Food has always been a big part of his life whether cooking it himself for family and friends or eating out.<br />
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“I always planned to retire and open a restaurant,” he said. Due to the economy he was unable to retire, but the economic crisis did afford him the opportunity to open the restaurant, he said.<br />
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He opened his doors on Dec. 8.<br />
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“It’s rough,” he said of opening a restaurant in the current economy, “but starting any business at any time isn’t easy.”<br />
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Hebert is relying on word of mouth to drum up business, which seems to be working.<br />
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“It’s getting better,” he said with a smile.<br />
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The Café at Hudson Supermarket is open Thursday, Friday, Sunday and Monday, from noon to 5 p.m., and noon to 6 p.m. on Saturdays.<br />
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For more information call the restaurant at 518-822-8008.Chris Hebert's HS Caféhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16033814978904217404noreply@blogger.com