One thing you don't know about me is that I am as good at the game of Scrabble as I am at cooking. If I could trade places with one chef it would be Francis Mallmann, the Argentian chef and author of Seven Fires. He is a genius when it comes to...
Scott Feldman, founder of Two Twelve Management & Marketing, has had a big hand in boosting some of the hottest chefs into household names. Feldman's niche is leveraging relationships and capitalizing on strengths to build personal brands. We...
One thing you don't know about me is that I practice yoga. I'm most proud of my seven-month-old baby girl, Verveine. One of my most memorable meals was at Tsukiji Fish Market in Tokyo about five years ago. There were no plates. They just...
Gutsy is one way to describe a 27-year-old who plasters her own name on a new restaurant, but Kelly Liken pulled it off. Five years ago she took over a tired Chinese eatery at the entrance to Vail Village in Colorado and transformed it into...
Has it even been a year since the restaurant industry hit on the phrase “polished casual” to describe operations whose food and décor blow mainline casual dining away? Probably not, but Josiah Citrin has already rewritten this emerging segment's...
Here's a book so in tune with the culinary times that if it didn't exist, it would almost have to be written. We're talking about Mark Miller's Tacos (Ten Speed Press, $21.95), in which one of the founding fathers of modern Southwestern Cuisine...
Spreading the love from one of New York's hottest places, STK, Todd Mark Miller opened an L.A. branch last year and is working on sites in Miami and Las Vegas. This 2005 Restaurant Hospitality Rising Star first carved out his reputation at...