Moshe Wendel

Moshe Wendel is an American chef known for his creative approach to contemporary kosher cooking at Pardes Restaurant, in the Boerum Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn.

Training and early career Wendel, trained in a Philadelphia culinary apprentice program in Pennsylvania, and worked in cooking in the South of France in Philadelphia area French restaurants including Django and La Bohème.

Wendel and his wife Shana were working at Django, a small, French restaurant in Philadelphia, when they began personally following the Jewish kosher rules in 2008, making it necessary to move to the New York area where there were more opportunities for kosher chefs. together with his wife Shana, telling a reporter that "It’s just like any Brooklyn bistro, it just happens to be kosher."

Wendel credits Shana Wendel, who manages the restaurant, with challenging him to make food that is "as good as the stuff I was making when I cooked" non-kosher food.

Wendel has become a role model for younger kosher chefs.