Awards & Recognition
★2010 James Beard Foundation Rising Chef of the Year Award
★2010 San Francisco Chronicle Rising Star Chef Award
★Winner of Netflix's The Final Table cooking competition (2018)
★6th place at 2009 Bocuse d'Or World Cuisine Contest (representing USA)
Notable Facts
→Chef de Cuisine at Thomas Keller's The French Laundry for 13 years
→Winner of Netflix's global cooking competition The Final Table
→2010 James Beard Foundation Rising Chef of the Year Award winner
→Represented USA at 2009 Bocuse d'Or, placed 6th globally
→Owner of multiple LA restaurants including Otium (opened 2015)
→Judge on PBS series The Great American Recipe
→Co-founder of Chain dining concept with B.J. Novak
→Currently chef partner at Hundredfold brasserie
→208K Instagram followers
→Based in Los Angeles with wife and four children