Interview: chef Jason Neroni (Catch & Release + The Rose)
Food GPS - Food. Drinks. People. Jason Neroni grew up in Orange County and built up culinary credentials at New York restaurants like 71 Clinton Fresh Food and 10 Downing Food & Wine. He returned...
View ArticleInterview: Tara Lazar (Foundation 10 Creative, Palm Springs)
Food GPS - Food. Drinks. People. Tara Lazar is a self-trained chef who’s carved out quite a niche in Palm Springs with Foundation 10 Creative‘s diverse roster. She started with popular breakfast spot...
View ArticleInterview: chef Francis Mallmann (Los Fuegos)
Food GPS - Food. Drinks. People. Francis Mallmann is an accomplished Argentinean chef who’s traveled the world and now employs a repertoire of cooking techniques that focus on Seven Fires. His...
View ArticleInterview: chef Brooke Desprez (Sidecar Doughnuts)
Food GPS - Food. Drinks. People. City of Orange native and longtime caterer Brooke Desprez teamed with Chi-lin Pendergrast and husband Sumter on Sidecar Doughnuts in 2012. The Costa Mesa hit now has a...
View ArticleInterview: chefs Greg Denton + Gabrielle Quiñonez Denton (Ox + Superbite)
Food GPS - Food. Drinks. People. Greg Denton Gabrielle Quiñonez Denton are the partners behind Ox and Superbite in Portland, Oregon. The duo met at Terra in St. Helena, became Food & Wine Best New...
View ArticleInterview: chef Justin West (Julienne + Wildwood Kitchen)
Food GPS - Food. Drinks. People. Justin West started cooking by age 11 in his father’s five restaurants in Eugene, Oregon. He committed to the restaurant world at an early age. He met Emma, his wife...
View ArticleInterview: Josh Loeb + Jeremy Fox as Rustic Canyon Turns 10
Food GPS - Food. Drinks. People. Rustic Canyon Winebar and Seasonal Kitchen restaurateur Josh Loeb has gone on to open several other Santa Monica concepts with pastry chef/wife Zoe Nathan and the...
View ArticleInterview: Massimo Bottura (Osteria Francescana)
Food GPS - Food. Drinks. People. Massimo Bottura has established global reach from Modena, Italy, the city where he runs Osteria Francescana with wife Lisa Gilmore. In 2016, the restaurant earned the...
View ArticleInterview: Mark Rosati (Shake Shack Culinary Director)
Food GPS - Food. Drinks. People. Globe-trotting Shake Shack Culinary Director Mark Rosati was recently in L.A. to promote the release of the Shake Shack: Recipes & Stories, which he co-wrote with...
View ArticleInterview: chef Andoni Luis Aduriz (Mugaritz)
Food GPS - Food. Drinks. People. Chef Andoni Luis Aduriz has become known for serving some of the world’s most daring modernist cuisine at Mugaritz in Errenteria, Spain. The Basque Country restaurant...
View ArticleInterview: chef Josef Centeno (Bäco: Vivid Recipes from the Heart of Los...
Food GPS - Food. Drinks. People. Chef Josef Centeno grew up in San Antonio and spent time cooking in New York City and for David Kinch at Manresa, but he developed his unique personal cooking style in...
View ArticleInterview: chef Curtis Stone (Gwen + Maude)
Food GPS - Food. Drinks. People. Curtis Stone is no stranger to the spotlight. The Melbourne, Australia, native has been cooking professionally since he was 18. He racked up extensive experience in...
View ArticleInterview: chef Miles Thompson (Michael’s Santa Monica)
Food GPS - Food. Drinks. People. Nobody can say that Miles Thompson’s trajectory has ever hit a plateau. In 2014, Star Chefs named him a Los Angeles Rising Star. This fall, Jeff Gordinier honored...
View ArticleInterview: chef Dominique Ansel (189 by Dominique Ansel)
Food GPS - Food. Drinks. People. Chef Dominique Ansel is synonymous with the Cronut®, but you don’t earn the 2014 James Beard Award for “Outstanding Pastry Chef” and get named the 2017 “World’s Best...
View ArticleInterview: chef Hugh Acheson (5&10, The National + Empire State South)
Food GPS - Food. Drinks. People. You may know chef Hugh Acheson from his stints as a “Top Chef” judge or as a “Top Chef Masters” competitor. The 2002 Food & Wine “Best New Chef” and 2012 James...
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