Award-winning Miami chef expands culinary vision with gourmet baguette delivery service

NORTH BAY VILLAGE, Fla. — Chef Olivia Ostrow has already earned a reputation for elevating kosher fine dining in South Florida. Now, the award-winning restaurateur is taking her signature flavors beyond the dining room and directly to customers’ doors.

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Recently named “Best Chef in Miami” by Aventura Magazine, Ostrow is the founder and executive chef of Maison Ostrow, a French kosher restaurant in North Bay Village. Her newest venture, Maison Baguette, delivers handcrafted gourmet sandwiches inspired by cuisines from around the world.

For Ostrow, the journey began long before she opened her Miami restaurant.

“I’m the happiest when I’m around food,” she said.

Growing up in France, she developed her love of cooking at her grandparents’ country home, where large family gatherings revolved around the kitchen table.

“My grandparents had a country house where everybody would meet on the weekend — all the cousins, the uncles and everyone,” Ostrow recalled. “It was like a constant revolving door of food.”

Inspired by those family meals, Ostrow trained under some of France’s most accomplished chefs before eventually relocating to South Florida.

Determined to bring authentic French cuisine to Miami’s kosher dining scene, she opened Maison Ostrow, assembling a kitchen staff trained in France under Michelin-starred chefs.

“For me to open a restaurant that was kosher and French, I needed to have a real kitchen,” Ostrow said. “The guys with me in my kitchen were trained in France under Michelin-star chefs. They know their stuff.”

The restaurant’s menu features dishes including smoked salmon crêpes, caramelized miso black cod, homemade pastas, risottos, veal, lamb and duck.

But despite her extensive fine-dining menu, Ostrow admits one food has always been her favorite.

“I’m obsessed with a sandwich,” she said. “I can eat sandwiches every day. If you want to invite me over for dinner, just tell me you’re making a sandwich. I’m coming.”

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That passion inspired Maison Baguette, a delivery-only concept centered around freshly baked French bread filled with globally inspired recipes.

Rather than creating traditional deli sandwiches, Ostrow designed a menu featuring about 25 different combinations inspired by favorite dishes from around the world.

“We picked dishes, not sandwiches, from all over the world that we love,” she said. “It can be sweet-and-sour sesame chicken representing Asia, a Greek salad with chicken, or steak frites with peppercorn sauce.”

Each sandwich is served on homemade baguettes developed specifically for delivery.

Perfecting the bread took months of testing.

“The work was literally five full months to perfect that baguette,” Ostrow said. “We imported flour from all over the globe, and we made it happen. Now we’re open, we’re thriving, and I couldn’t be prouder of my little baguette.”

Customers can also order VIP meal boxes that include fries, a dessert and a drink.

With Maison Ostrow continuing to serve diners in North Bay Village and Maison Baguette expanding her reach across South Florida, Ostrow hopes to continue sharing the French culinary traditions that first inspired her around her grandparents’ kitchen table.

Maison Baguette sandwiches can be ordered online through the company’s website or mobile app.

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