Blair Cobbett moves from Genessee Royale to Justus Drugstore
Chefs are always moving around. They find more lucrative jobs or less stressful kitchens, or they quit a restaurant to open their own. And sometimes, they get lured away by another restaurateur. That’s what happened to pastry chef Blair Cobbett, who was working as the chef for Genessee Royale Bistro and also making pies for the breakfast-and-lunch-only venue. Cobbett is now the pastry chef for Justus Drugstore.
“It was very kind of Jonathan Justus to send one of his sous chefs into my kitchen to get Blair’s phone number,” says Todd Schulte, owner of Genessee Royale.
Justus says he had tried to hire Cobbett three years ago, but the timing wasn’t right. When his last pastry chef, Mike Pisciotto, left to become a chocolatier in New Hampshire, Justus offered Cobbett the job again. She took it.
