A Whimsical Chocolate Shop for the North Fork
The pastry chef Ursula Sala-Illa, a.k.a. Ursula XVII, sells bonbons, bars and cookies at Atelier Disset in Cutchogue, N.Y.
Ursula XVII, who worked at Ai Fiori in New York and with Albert Adrià and Oriol Balaguer in Spain, has just opened her own chocolate shop on the North Fork of Long Island.Credit.Anastassia Whitty for The New York Times
April 19, 2021, 10:50 a.m. ET
Ursula Sala-Illa, who prefers to be known as Ursula XVII, has just opened her own chocolate shop, Atelier Disset, on the North Fork of Long Island. The pastry chef’s complicated nomenclature has to do with her Catalonian roots. In the Catalan language “disset” means 17 (pronounce it and if you know French, you’ll also understand). Ursula XVII a native New Yorker who worked at Ai Fiori in New York and with Albert Adrià and Oriol Balaguer in Spain has settled on the North Fork. On its website and in-store, the compact little shop sells finely crafted and de
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A chef has launched a new line of chocolates on the North Fork. (Courtesy Disset Chocolate.)
CUTCHOGUE, NY A chef who has traveled the world has set down roots on the North Fork and is debuting her new chocolate line, Disset Chocolate, just in time for Valentine s Day.
Ursula Sala-illa, whose professional name is Chef Ursula XVII, is debuting two collections of hand-crafted, small-batch chocolates.
A Michelin-trained pastry chef and chocolatier, Ursula is a New York native with roots in Catalonia. She trained with world-renowned pastry chefs and worked at several Michelin-starred restaurants in Europe and the United States, including Ai Fiori, Albert Adria, Oriol Balaguer, and Jodi Ferrer, she said.
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