Patrick Feury, chef and a companion at Nectar restaurant, dies at 57

Patrick Feury, 57, a chef whose repertoire and curiosity spanned the globe, died Saturday, Feb. 12, following an accidental fall at his residence in Paoli, reported his brother Terence Feury, also a chef.

Mr. Feury, who grew up in Middletown, N.J., was the chef and a husband or wife in Nectar in Berwyn, a well-liked place cafe on the Principal Line. Much more a short while ago, he also owned pursuits in Danlu (afterwards the Common) in University Metropolis, which closed in 2020 through the pandemic.

He was a winner of regional farmers and foodstuff makers, primarily all those in Chester County, in which he was a collaborator with Yellow Springs Farm. He was identified for his ice carvings and his fishing excursions.

“I’ll put it the most basic way I can: He just desired to be cherished and make people happy,” mentioned Terence Feury, government chef at Forty 1 North in Newport, R.I., and a few several years Patrick’s junior. He and his brother relished a friendly sibling rivalry, regardless of whether it was producing competing beers or competing on the Food Network’s Beat Bobby Flay. (Terence won but misplaced to Flay.)

“He was my best close friend,” explained his fiancée, Jessica Cornacchio, who satisfied him approximately 5 decades back whilst enjoying bingo. (He made available to break up his winnings, she stated.)

“He paid all the awareness to the specifics,” stated Michael Wei, a partner in Nectar who recruited Mr. Feury and grew to become friends with him. “The grief is past words and phrases,” stated Henry Chu, also a spouse.

“His culinary curiosity spanned the world,” mentioned Inquirer critic Craig LaBan, who marveled at Mr. Feury’s “passion and peerless strategy, from Taiwanese street meals and dumplings to Swedish fixed fish, refined French sauces, and the final burger indulgence.”

(That burger, served at the Popular, introduced alongside one another two 4-ounce patties from Pinelands Farms beef, topped with caramelized onions, shredded lettuce, spicy home-produced pickle chips, and distinctive sauce, with Cooper sharp cheese oozing involving the patties.)

Mr. Feury’s first occupation was pot washer in a butcher store at 15. He graduated from the Academy of Culinary Arts in Mays Landing, N.J., as did his brother. Even though a senior, Mr. Feury parlayed his internship at the Waldorf Astoria Lodge in New York Town into total-time perform. After signing up for Le Cirque, wherever he rose to sous chef, Mr. Feury certain his brother to transfer to New York.

Mr. Feury’s up coming cease was Paris, the place he labored at Les Olivades. The brothers reunited in Philadelphia just after Terence Feury took the chef’s occupation at Striped Bass, then owned by Neil Stein, and advised his brother to head the kitchen area at Stein’s upcoming venture, Avenue B, which opened in late 2000 at Broad and Spruce Streets.

Mr. Feury remaining Avenue B before its abrupt closing in 2003, joining chef Susanna Foo, to start with as chef at her eponymous restaurant and then as government chef at her cafe Suilan at the Borgata in Atlantic City.

His following move, in 2004, was his most auspicious: signing up for associates in a flashy transformation of a watering hole termed Billy Jake’s into the stylish Nectar.

Extensively praised as the Main Line’s response to Centre City’s Buddakan, Nectar capabilities a $250,000 silk-print Buddha in the dining space and lengthy gold and burgundy velvet curtains modeled immediately after monks’ robes. Mr. Feury employed a Japanese-skilled sushi artisan to work the counter.

In 2008, Mr. Feury and his brother ended up partners in Maia in Villanova, a restaurant, cafe, and connoisseur foodstuff sector with a Scandinavian menu that closed about a calendar year afterwards.

Mr. Feury, divorced with a son, Thomas, 16, and daughter, Nicole, 18, had lived with Cornacchio and her daughters, Paige, 11, and Pali, 9, whom he introduced to skiing.

“He was amusing and witty and amazing and built all people truly feel like he was a shut close friend,” Cornacchio explained. “He also desired folks to know the resources of all the things. He achieved the farmers and the brewers and was definitely wonderful at creating relationships.”

Kenny Huang, also a husband or wife, will choose over the chef’s responsibilities.

A memorial is planned, his survivors mentioned.