Miami’s most celebrated pastry chef has a new gig: Here’s where to find the sweets
Hedy Goldsmith has a long line of loyal followers chasing the cookies, cakes and comfort food desserts that made her one of the country’s premier pastry chefs at top Miami restaurants.
Now, she has landed at new spot.
Goldsmith, a three-time James Beard award nominee who made her name alongside chef Michael
Schwartz, has rejoined a Michael’s Genuine alum at the new-ish Abbale Telavivian Kitchen in Miami Beach. She joins head chef and owner Sam Gorenstein, who also cofounded the My Ceviche franchise after graduating from working with Schwartz.
“It feels like going home,” she said.
It has been an itinerant three years from Goldsmith, who left South Florida for Los Angeles, where she ended up helping to open that city’s expansion of Miami Beach’s Yardbird. She returned to Miami in 2019, where she hopped from a short-lived, all-star chef team at the restaurant Ad Lib in Coral Gables (which replaced Swine).
Then she took over as head chef at Verde, the restaurant at the Perez Art Museum Miami, with a pandemic wedged in between, before joining David Grutman’s restaurants last summer.
Now she will be focusing on everything sweet and baked at a single restaurant, Abbale (which changed names from Abba since last Spring) for a return to her roots. She will be responsible for everything from the challahs baked for each weekly shabbat dinner to delicate desserts.
“I’m happiest when I’m baking,” she said.