Posts Tagged ‘Marc Felix’

Although bruised, along with three other defendants, with a judgment of more than $10 million in unpaid loans to Bank of America, Shaun Hayes continues to invest.  This time, he’s about to bow more Cecil Whitaker’s pizza stores…Keith Buckner, erstwhile maitre d’ at Balaban’s (now Herbie’s Vintage ’72), has become gm of the Racquet Club-West.  Had Buckner still been at the popular CWE dinery, he would’ve congratulated Mark Schnuck and his glamorous wife, Stephanie, on Schnucks’ Desco real estatery, which Schnuck said “has 97 percent occupancy” among all its holdings. . .Cort Schneider of Schneider Real Estate, was elected 2011 president-elect of the St. Charles County Association of Realtors.  And co-worker Grant Hickman will now sit on the SCCAR board of directors.  Wilson Monnig Creative repped both campaigns. . . Our town’s team of Dan Borgmeyer (Borgmeyer Marketing Group) and Melissa Wilson of Wilson Monnig have been selected to tout the largest pre-owned car dealership in Arkansas in addition to the Breeden Auto Group, whose brands include Dodge, Chrysler, Jeep, Hyundai and Kia. . .KSDK, Channel 5′s talented reporter Ann Rubin and Spencer Maughan of Bay City are getting serious.  “We met in junior high school in Chicago,” sighed Rubin. . .Rebecca Vossmeyer, 19, has been adopted by John Sandberg, a senior partner at Sandberg, Phoenix & Von Gontard, said his wife, Celeste Vossmeyer, of  Thompson Coburn. Rebecca, who is now a Sandberg,  is a student at George Washington University, beamed her mom at Bob’s Seafood, where she sought advice on preparing sea scallops. . .Bistro 1130 has parted company with Chef Marc Felix and owners Eric and Mikki Jones Mirianne have dubbed Karim Bouzzammour as top toque. . .

While he cooked with vim, vigor and vitality, esteemed Chef Marc Felix said he looks beyond American accents for his dishes and finds that spices from the south of France are the signature of his offerings.  And so, with perfect mastery of his own gifts, he has settled into the kitchen at Bistro 1130 in Ted Levis’ Town & Country Commons in Chesterfield.  Mikki Jones-Miranne and her husband, Eric, launched the intimate (only 55 seats) French restaurant with a preview Friday evening, that attracted a crowd-cruncher, including staunch Tea Party member Ann Wallace, who said, “Politicians haven’t listened to the people.  There are fiscal conservatives who have found the administration to be anti-business.”  Wallace, who owns FOB St. Louis home furnishings, is a yesteryear colleague of former Cong. Jack Buechner, whom she said is now a D.C. lobbyist.  Joe and Ann Lemons Pollack were back–patted on their return to print with St. Louis magazine’s November issue in which they will continue critiquing food and wine, which Joe did for decades at the Post-Dispatch. On the patio, Mikki said she met her husband at the Red Hook in Hilton Head after he came here from his native Avignon, France.  And, Lisa Felix noted she met Chef Marc when he first came here from Lyon, France and they were both working at the Ritz Carlton in Marina del Rey “where he was peeling potatoes,” she giggled.  Marc added, “I didn’t speak a word of English in those days.” Years later, Felix got hosanahs for his preparation of the wedding supper in honor of Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones at Gotham’s Plaza Hotel. Paying rapt attention to the musical ensemble, that drew kudos from the guests, were B.G. and and insurance czar Norbert Siegfried, who gushed, “We were married, divorced and now dating again.” The ensemble was headlined by two 19 year-olds: soprano Mahdia Atkins and violinist Mario Turnage.

Kim and Todd Hilliker with Doug Beermann

Over at Herbie’s, Eric Mirann and his wife, Mikki Jones Mirann, hailed that they have hired Marc Felix as chef for their Bistro, which will bow on July 11 in Town & Country Commons. Eric, who will be GM, hails from Avignon, France; Mikki is the widow of homebuilder Bob Jones.  One of the most beloved servers at Herbie’s, Steve Manns, has put out a shingle on his own residential electrical business.  Tasting the house’s premiere vintages were attorney Todd Hilliker with his wife, Kim, and Doug Biermann.