founded Le B<\/a> in 2023 in the same revamped space as Les Trois Chevaux, her short-lived French eatery that replaced The Beatrice Inn, which she bought from Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter in 2016.\u00a0<\/p>\nThe restaurant and its signature Le Burger \u2013 made with dry-aged ribeye, cheese from Lyon, and onions drowned in wine from Bordeaux \u2013 draws big names like TV personality Gayle King, fashion designer Christian Siriano, and K-Pop superstar Ros\u00e9.<\/p>\n
But behind the restaurant\u2019s star-studded facade, Mar is in trouble. She owes The New York state Workers\u2019 Compensation Board\u00a0$126,000\u00a0in fines, spread across all three iterations of her West Village venue, according to\u00a0Manhattan Supreme Court\u00a0records.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Mar disputes the deadbeat allegations.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe company\u2019s worker\u2019s comp is current so these look like they were filed in error as they are inconsistent with the company\u2019s records,\u201d Mar\u2019s spokesperson told The Post.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ironically, Mar now owes the lawyer who negotiated the settlement in the 2018 tip-stealing case $88,767 in unpaid legal fees, according to a lawsuit filed by Bronster LLP\u00a0on Dec. 30\u00a0in Manhattan Supreme Court.<\/p>\n
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Based on the New York State Worker\u2019s Compensation Board\u2019s penalty calculation system, Mar went for nearly two years, possibly more, without providing worker\u2019s comp insurance to her employees at\u00a0Le B and the now defunct Les Trois Chevaux and The Beatrice Inn. Annie Wermiel\/NY Post<\/p>\n
\u201cThe matter with Bronster was resolved,\u201d Mar\u2019s spokesperson told The Post. <\/p>\n
The lawsuit is still active in the\u00a0court\u2019s electronic filing system. Bronster declined comment.<\/p>\n
She also had problems with Sussex Wine Merchants, a New York-based wine importer. It sued Mar for failing to pay for more than $1,800 worth of deliveries in 2024 \u2013 including six bottles of Chardonnay from Burgundy worth $63 each, along with 12 bottles of Italian Barolo aged 20 years and worth $120 each.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
A year later the importer, Petit Pois Corp., discontinued its lawsuit in Manhattan Supreme Court. It didn\u2019t respond to a message seeking comment.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis was resolved one year ago, and Petit Pois is a current wine supplier to Le B,\u201d Mar\u2019s spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
The spokesperson declined to comment on what financial circumstances led to Mar\u2019s IOU backlogs in the first place,\u00a0claiming\u00a0\u201cLe B is doing well.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Even Le B\u2019s ma\u00eetre D George G. Escudero seemed puzzled over the allegations against his boss, who appeared on the\u00a0G.O.A.T. series\u00a0on\u00a0MasterClass, where the all-time greatest teach viewers their passions\u2014 from signature techniques to secret recipes.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been [Mar\u2019s] Ma\u00eetre D for nine years and this is the first time I\u2019m hearing about any of this,\u201d Escudero told The Post.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the wage theft lawsuit is what killed her business,\u201d a former employee, who preferred to remain anonymous due to\u00a0an NDA, told the Post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A reality-TV chef and\u00a0owner of the $400-a-plate dinner at the swanky West Village joint Le B can\u2019t pay…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[290,8411,75,57,9,11,10,821,58,2380],"class_list":["post-126222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-celebrity-chefs","tag-debt","tag-manhattan","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-restaurants","tag-us-news","tag-west-village"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Award-winning chef Angie Mar, who owns the West Village\u2019s Le B, has cooked up a tasteless dish of unpaid IOUs. Getty Images for NYCWFF<\/p>\n