Rebelle Bringing Parisian Dining to the Bowery

A rebellion is taking root downtown. Opening down on the Bowery on Monday, Rebelle is the new French eatery from Patrick Cappiello and Branden McRill, two-thirds of the wunderkind team behind NoLIta hot spot Pearl & Ash. The pair are admitted Francophiles (Rebelle means “rebel” in French) and are using the restaurant to approach French cuisine with a quality it’s not exactly known for — accessibility. “I’m a big lover of the Parisian food and wine scene, and we wanted to really replicate that here,” said Cappiello. “It was making a statement against the system,” he continued, explaining the movement of young diners in Paris to eschew dressy, stuffy dining rooms and instead embrace environments where the focus is on the meal, not the dress code. “In Paris, it was about fighting the Michelin system, and here, it’s about fighting the Midtown mentality.” Cappiello and McRill headed over to the source — Paris — to find a chef for their new concept. Through a mutual friend they found their match in Daniel Eddy, a native New Yorker, who was camped out as chef de cuisine in the kitchen of the famed Spring and looking to jump ship back to New York. “You can’t

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