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Career Highlights
Awards & Recognition
★Top Chef All-Stars winner (2011)
★James Beard Award nomination for cookbook 'Try This at Home'
★StarChefs Rising Star Concept Award (2012)
★The Crack Shack received Hot Concept Award from Nation's Restaurant News (2019)
Notable Facts
→Winner of Bravo's Top Chef All-Stars (2011) and runner-up on Top Chef Season 4
→Co-hosts FOX's Next Level Chef with Gordon Ramsay and Nyesha Arrington
→Owns Trail Blais, a culinary consulting company operating multiple restaurants
→Trained at world-renowned restaurants including The French Laundry, Daniel, Chez Panisse, and elBulli
→Author of three cookbooks including James Beard Award-nominated 'Try This at Home'
→Hosts two popular podcasts: 'Starving for Attention' and 'Food Court with Richard Blais'
→Operates multiple restaurants including Juniper & Ivy, The Crack Shack, Ember & Rye, Four Flamingos
→Has 583K Instagram followers
→Graduated from Culinary Institute of America
→Studied under celebrity chefs Thomas Keller, Daniel Boulud, and Ferran Adrià
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