{"id":71059,"date":"2026-05-04T01:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T05:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/?p=71059"},"modified":"2026-05-01T11:24:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T15:24:44","slug":"feld-potashnick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/feld-potashnick\/","title":{"rendered":"Hotelie Creates Hyper-Seasonal Cuisine, Served with Theatrical Flair"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">Jake Potashnick \u201915 offers a finely crafted tasting menu at Feld, his Chicago restaurant that earned a Michelin star in its second year<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By <strong>Melissa Newcomb<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Chef Jake Potashnick \u201915 runs his kitchen like a magazine. Every Tuesday, his five cooks suggest ideas and he edits them, shaping the \u201cstories\u201d that will define the week\u2019s menu. \u201cI take ideas and components from their pitches,\u201d he says, \u201cand combine them into dishes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The result is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.feldrestaurant.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Feld<\/a>, his Michelin-starred Chicago restaurant where the 25-to-30-course tasting menus evolve daily, built around fresh, seasonal ingredients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery alignwide has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"71079\" src=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/ikura-with-horseradish-panna-cotta-A-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Bright orange ikura with horseradish pan cotta in a green bowl.\" class=\"wp-image-71079\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/ikura-with-horseradish-panna-cotta-A-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/ikura-with-horseradish-panna-cotta-A-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/ikura-with-horseradish-panna-cotta-A-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/ikura-with-horseradish-panna-cotta-A-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/ikura-with-horseradish-panna-cotta-A-632x790.jpg 632w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/ikura-with-horseradish-panna-cotta-A-316x395.jpg 316w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/ikura-with-horseradish-panna-cotta-A-280x350.jpg 280w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/ikura-with-horseradish-panna-cotta-A-140x175.jpg 140w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/ikura-with-horseradish-panna-cotta-A-70x87.jpg 70w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/ikura-with-horseradish-panna-cotta-A-400x500.jpg 400w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/ikura-with-horseradish-panna-cotta-A-200x250.jpg 200w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/ikura-with-horseradish-panna-cotta-A-100x125.jpg 100w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/ikura-with-horseradish-panna-cotta-A.jpg 1260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"71075\" src=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/crab-and-seaweed-egg-A-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Crab and seaweed egg on a small white and black polka dot plate\" class=\"wp-image-71075\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/crab-and-seaweed-egg-A-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/crab-and-seaweed-egg-A-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/crab-and-seaweed-egg-A-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/crab-and-seaweed-egg-A-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/crab-and-seaweed-egg-A-632x790.jpg 632w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/crab-and-seaweed-egg-A-316x395.jpg 316w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/crab-and-seaweed-egg-A-280x350.jpg 280w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/crab-and-seaweed-egg-A-140x175.jpg 140w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/crab-and-seaweed-egg-A-70x87.jpg 70w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/crab-and-seaweed-egg-A-400x500.jpg 400w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/crab-and-seaweed-egg-A-200x250.jpg 200w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/crab-and-seaweed-egg-A-100x125.jpg 100w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/crab-and-seaweed-egg-A.jpg 1260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/figure>\n<figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption wp-element-caption\">Ikura with horseradish panna cotta, and a crab and seaweed egg.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDinner at Feld feels like a night of theater,\u201d says <em>Bon App\u00e9tit, <\/em>which called it one of the best new restaurants of 2025, \u201cwith 20-plus courses unfurling over two hours, a dynamic dinner-in-the-round that is as engaging as it is earnest.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the Hotelie, the experience is as much about highlighting the people and places from which he sources ingredients as it is about the meal itself\u2014a concept he terms \u201crelationship to table.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote alignwide is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Dinner at Feld feels like a night of theater with 20-plus courses unfurling over two hours, a dynamic dinner-in-the-round that is as engaging as it is earnest.<\/p>\n<cite><em><strong>Bon App\u00e9tit<\/strong><\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>In an evening at Feld, guests could dine on (and learn about) the never-refrigerated tomatoes that come from a Wisconsin farmer who\u2019s a former captain in the Merchant Marine; the Maine scallops that a sixth-generation diver harvests by hand; or the pears grown in Illinois by a 78-year-old farmer who was born in Korea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTasting menus are so vast in their ability to express something and lay the framework to create a narrative that you otherwise can\u2019t,\u201d Potashnick observes. \u201cIt\u2019s the control freak\u2019s dream of cooking, as well\u2014because you\u2019re going to have what I want to give you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/Feld_Service-A-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Jake Potashnick and three chefs plating courses and walking them to guest tables in the dining room.\" class=\"wp-image-71077\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/Feld_Service-A-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/Feld_Service-A-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/Feld_Service-A-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/Feld_Service-A-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/Feld_Service-A-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/Feld_Service-A-608x342.jpg 608w, 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https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/Feld_Service-A-400x225.jpg 400w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/Feld_Service-A-200x113.jpg 200w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/Feld_Service-A-100x56.jpg 100w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/Feld_Service-A.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Feld has received critical raves from local and national media.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Launched in June 2024 in a 140-year-old building in Chicago\u2019s Ukrainian Village neighborhood, Feld (whose name means \u201cfield\u201d in German) serves just 20 guests a night, with the tasting menu priced at $225 before tax and service fee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Its dining room is anchored by two large countertops from which the dishes are plated, with guests learning about the cuisine and its ingredients from the people who prepared it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>\u201cNobody knows the food better than the cooks,\u201d Potashnick notes, \u201cand they love it, because they get to interact with the guests.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tables line the walls\u2014so every diner can watch the process unfold\u2014and an open kitchen at the rear is centered around a blazing fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Feld\u2019s handmade dinnerware comes via a fellow Cornellian: Jessica Evans \u201915\u2014Potashnick\u2019s best friend from the Hill\u2014who runs <a href=\"https:\/\/terrafirmaceramics.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Terrafirma Ceramics<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"887\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/Culinary-Class-A-e1777644354192-887x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Jake Potashnick and two classmates holding knifes while wearing chef whites during a culinary class.\" class=\"wp-image-71076 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/Culinary-Class-A-e1777644354192-887x1024.jpg 887w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/Culinary-Class-A-e1777644354192-260x300.jpg 260w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/Culinary-Class-A-e1777644354192-768x886.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/Culinary-Class-A-e1777644354192-632x729.jpg 632w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/Culinary-Class-A-e1777644354192-316x365.jpg 316w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/Culinary-Class-A-e1777644354192-400x462.jpg 400w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/Culinary-Class-A-e1777644354192-200x231.jpg 200w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/Culinary-Class-A-e1777644354192-100x115.jpg 100w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/Culinary-Class-A-e1777644354192.jpg 1260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 887px) 100vw, 887px\" \/><figcaption>In a culinary class.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>A sampling of past dishes from various menus includes sliced German striped tomatoes topped with flaky salt, chives, and a sauce of pork jus, honey, and vinegar; turnip in dashi infused with Benton ham; cherry wood-seared scallops with black garlic vinaigrette and roasted parsnip butter; and funnel cake with spicebush berry sugar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Tasting menus are so vast in their ability to express something and lay the framework to create a narrative that you otherwise can\u2019t.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ll fall into the rhythms of this meal, laugh a lot, and lean in to taste the loveliest ingredients supplied by the folks Potashnick has chosen to invite to his world,\u201d says a review in <em>Chicago<\/em> magazine, which ranked Feld the third-best new restaurant of 2025. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAnd with new dishes rotating in and out each day, you can keep coming back, deepening your own relationship with this special place.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"922\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/Cooking-at-Carriage-House-Cafe-A-e1777644510878-922x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Jake Potashnick plating dishes at the Carriage House Cafe.\" class=\"wp-image-71074 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/Cooking-at-Carriage-House-Cafe-A-e1777644510878-922x1024.jpg 922w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/Cooking-at-Carriage-House-Cafe-A-e1777644510878-270x300.jpg 270w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/Cooking-at-Carriage-House-Cafe-A-e1777644510878-768x853.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/Cooking-at-Carriage-House-Cafe-A-e1777644510878-632x702.jpg 632w, 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extreme seasonality and constant change\u201d\u2014has earned some top accolades in its first two years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They include the coveted Michelin star; a Michelin green star, given for sustainability; and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamesbeard.org\/stories\/james-beard-awards-restaurant-and-chef-nominees-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">James Beard nomination<\/a>, with Potashnick in the running for the region\u2019s best chef (the winner will be announced in mid-June).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Potashnick has also built an audience on social media, with more than 100,000 followers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@jaketalksfood\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on TikTok<\/a> (and 27,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/jake.potashnick\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on Instagram<\/a>)\u2014where he shares behind-the-scenes looks at Feld and the farms that supply it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>He owes the large following, in part, to his appearances on Apple TV\u2019s chef-focused docuseries \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/tv.apple.com\/us\/show\/knife-edge-chasing-michelin-stars\/umc.cmc.2yhce9h11ctctdi23b29k1ek3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Knife Edge: Chasing Michelin Stars<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But long before Feld or media fame, Potashnick began developing his craft in a much smaller, well-loved kitchen in Collegetown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote alignwide is-style-solid-color\"><blockquote><p>Long before Feld or media fame, Potashnick began developing his craft in a much smaller, well-loved kitchen in Collegetown.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>His first job was as a line cook at the Carriage House Caf\u00e9, then a popular eatery and brunch spot on Stewart Avenue (it closed in 2020).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Senior year, he even hosted a four-course dinner there; its menu\u2014featuring brie with pineapple and bee pollen and duck with rhubarb and beet\u2014now hangs in his office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/Performing-with-the-Whistling-Shrimp-A-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Jake Potashnick and four classmates performing on a stage with red curtain behind them for the Whistling Shrimp.\" class=\"wp-image-71080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/Performing-with-the-Whistling-Shrimp-A-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/Performing-with-the-Whistling-Shrimp-A-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/Performing-with-the-Whistling-Shrimp-A-768x432.jpg 768w, 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