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Luminaries we lost in 2025

 By Patricia Cobe on Dec. 18, 2025

This year brought the deaths of industry icons including Anne Burrell, Charles Phan and Shelly Fireman.

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Chef Te'Sean Glass brings life lessons to True Laurel

 By Bret Thorn and Patricia Cobe on Dec. 16, 2025

Menu Talk: The chef of the San Francisco cocktail bar made a gutsy move from St. Augustine and created a life for himself on the West Coast.

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How Isabel Coss rose from bread baker to become executive chef at Washington, D.C.'s Pascual

By Patricia Cobe on Dec. 09, 2025

Menu Talk: The former ballet dancer and pastry chef began her culinary journey at 17 in Mexico City, was mentored by several top restaurateurs and steadily achieved her own success.

Food

'Top Chef' alum Nelson German embraces more African influences

By Bret Thorn and Patricia Cobe on Dec. 02, 2025

Menu Talk: The San Francisco chef incorporates elements from cuisines ranging from Cameroon to Ethiopia.

Food

Café Vivant reclaims the flavor of Heritage breed chicken to power the menu

By Patricia Cobe on Nov. 11, 2025

The California restaurant partners with a regenerative farm to raise and supply the birds and other products, creating a closed loop ecosystem.

Food

Celeb chef Alex Guarnaschelli creates elevated comfort food menu for Hilton Garden Inn restaurants

By Patricia Cobe on Nov. 04, 2025

The limited-time menu, which includes three of the chef’s Italian favorites, is being served at 600 of the hotel’s Garden Grille & Bar restaurants.

Food

Omaha restaurateur David Utterback offers his take on Japanese food without a proper kitchen

By Bret Thorn and Patricia Cobe on Nov. 04, 2025

Menu Talk: The chef and owner of Yoshitomo and Koji provides serious but playful takes on the cuisine.

Food

An 8-year restoration takes NYC's Waldorf Astoria into the 21st century, with just the right blend of grandeur and approachability

By Patricia Cobe on Oct. 30, 2025

The updated Peacock Alley lounge evokes Gilded Age opulence, but Chef Michael Anthony’s Lex Yard, the hotel’s signature restaurant, is a welcoming brasserie for the neighborhood as well as overnight guests. We take an inside look at the Waldorf’s monumental makeover.

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Los Angeles' new Maydan Market is not a food hall. It's a collaboration to give 'cool small businesses' a start

By Lisa Jennings on Oct. 07, 2025

Washington D.C. restaurateur Rose Previte has launched Maydan Market Los Angeles, a groundbreaking 10,000-square-foot venue that brings her Michelin-starred restaurant Maydan and Compass Rose to the West Coast while pioneering a new small restaurant business support model.

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Scott Davis exits Noodles & Company to join Tatte Bakery

By Lisa Jennings on Sep. 26, 2025

The former chief concept officer for fast-casual Noodles is working again with Ron Shaich, former CEO of Panera Bread, where Davis worked for nearly three decades.

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