Meet the founders of Trufflin Cornelious Robinson and Liv Woudstra-Robinson. Their truffles may be French, but their hustle is 100% New York grit.
Liv hails from the South of France, where her family’s got a long history with truffles (and the truffle-hunting dogs to prove it). Cornelious spent years on the Atlanta food scene, first in the kitchen, learning French technique at a James Beard-awarded restaurant, then behind the bar at the onset of the craft cocktail revolution. They met in NYC, where Cornelious curated menus and trained staff at the likes of The Top of The Standard’s Boom Boom Room, Saxon Parole, and the SoHo Grand Hotel.
Liv explains, "We brought that collective passion for gastronomy together over a simple idea: to bring the highest-quality truffles available to the best chefs in NYC. It’s always been important that we own the process end-to-end, and we’re admittedly a little obsessive about our standards. That’s why we source our truffles from a collective of French truffle hunters and farmers, ensuring top-grade quality from season to season.
We knocked on a lot of doors and snuck into our fair share of kitchens to introduce our truffles to the NYC chef community. And that hustle paid off. These days, you’ll find us in the restaurants like Le Bernadin, Eleven Madison Park, and Masa.
But we don’t believe in fancy food just for the sake of it. We believe in incredible quality, and incredible flavor, and relishing in everything that food has to offer, from the humble bodega egg and cheese to the 14-course tasting menu from a hotshot chef. We think it’s high time someone broke down the barriers that tell us that certain ingredients exist for a certain type of people."
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