Awards & Recognition
★7 Michelin Stars for REDD restaurant from 2008-2014
★Multiple James Beard Award nominations for Best Chef in the Pacific Region
★San Francisco Magazine Best Rising Chef award
★GQ Magazine's best new restaurants 2006
★San Francisco Chronicle best new restaurant for Redd Wood
Notable Facts
→Owner of two Rochester restaurants (REDD and Redd Wood) and former owner of Michelin-starred REDD in Yountville, California
→Trained at three-star Michelin restaurant Arpège in Paris under Alain Passard
→Worked with Daniel Boulud at Restaurant Daniel in New York
→Worked at Wolfgang Puck's Spago Beverly Hills
→Rochester native who returned home to be closer to family
→Called 'the most-loved bad boy in Napa Valley' by locals
→Business partner with Thomas Keller and mentioned alongside him as influential American chef
→Former Executive Chef at Auberge du Soleil in Napa Valley