- Mario Batali
Mario Batali Mario, whose original career path had him studying the golden age of Spanish theater at Rutgers University, took his first bite of culinary training at Le Cordon Bleu in London, from which he withdrew almost immediately due to a "lack of interest." - Bobby Flay
Robert William Flay is a fourth generation Irish-American celebrity chef and restaurateur. He is the owner and executive chef of six restaurants: "Mesa Grill", "Bolo Bar & Restaurant", and "Bar Americain" in New York City, "Mesa Grill" Las Vegas (Caesars Palace), "Mesa Grill" Bahamas (Atlantis Paradise Island, Nassau), and Bobby Flay Steak (Atlantic City, New Jersey). Flay has hosted four Food Network television programs, … - Danny Meyer
Daniel "Danny" Meyer (b. 1958, St Louis) is a New York City restaurateur. He was born in the midwest, and spent portions of his childhood traveling throughout Europe with his father's tour company, studying food and hospitality extensively in France and Italy (including such cities as Bordeaux, Rome, and Paris). In 1985, at the age of 27, he began his career as a restaurateur with the opening of Union Square Cafe. - Thomas Keller
Thomas Keller (born October 14, 1955) is an American chef, restaurateur, and cookbook writer. He and his landmark restaurant, The French Laundry in the Napa Valley of Yountville, California, have won multiple awards from the James Beard Foundation, notably the Best California Chef in 1996 and the Best Chef in America in 1997. In 2005, he was awarded a three star rating by the Michelin Guide to New York for his restaurant Per Se, and in 2006, … - Alan Yau
Alan Yau, OBE (born 1962) is a restaurateur who launched the Wagamama food chain in the United Kingdom. The chain is acclaimed with re-inventing the Japanese food industry in the UK by improving traditional recipes with modern techniques but also criticized by esteemed food critic and Asian delicacies connoisseur Wayne Tu, as "really un-declicious". Despite this, Alan Yau was awarded the OBE in the 2006 New Year Honour's List for services to the restaurant industry. - Michael Mina
Michael Mina is an award-winning American celebrity chef and restaurateur, based out of San Francisco, California. He is also a super chef. - Marco Pierre White
Marco Pierre White (born 11 December, 1961) is a leading English chef and restaurateur. He is regarded as one of the most creative and talented chefs of his generation, known as much for his quick temper as for his exceptional skill as a chef. Although the chain-smoking White is variously described as the first celebrity chef, the "enfant terrible" of the UK restaurant scene or the Godfather of modern cooking, … - Daniel Boulud
Daniel Boulud is a French chef and restaurateur with restaurants in New York City, Palm Beach, and Las Vegas. A former executive chef at "Le Cirque", he is best known for his Michelin two-star restaurant, "Daniel". At the tender age of fifteen, Boulud earned his first professional recognition: He was a finalist in France's competition for Best Culinary Apprentice. - Emeril Lagasse
Emeril John Lagasse is an American celebrity chef, restaurateur, television personality, and writer. He is of Québécois (paternal) and Portuguese (maternal) ancestry. He is a 1978 graduate of Johnson & Wales University's College of Culinary Arts, where he later received an honorary doctorate in 1990. He is married and has four children. Emeril is most well-known for his TV show "Emeril Live" on the Food Network, one of its highest-rated programs. - Charlie Trotter
Charlie Trotter is a Chicago chef and restaurant owner. - Raymond Blanc
Raymond Blanc is a French chef, born in Besançon, France, and now based in the United Kingdom. Blanc is the owner and chef at Le Manoir aux Quat' Saisons, a hotel-restaurant in Great Milton, Oxfordshire, England. The restaurant has two Michelin stars and scores 9/10 in the "Good Food Guide". Blanc opened the first of a chain of smaller restaurants, Le Petit Blanc restaurants in Oxford in June 1996. - Tom Colicchio
Thomas Patrick "Tom" Colicchio (August 15, 1962 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA) is a noted American chef. He is co-owner, founder and former executive chef of the Gramercy Tavern in New York City, which opened in 1994, and was voted Most Popular Restaurant in New York City by the Zagat Survey in 2003 and 2005. Colicchio is the recipient of five James Beard Foundation Medals for his cooking accomplishments. - Paul Bocuse
Paul Bocuse (born on 11 February, 1926 in Collonges-au-Mont-d'Or near Lyon) is a French chef, considered one of the finest cooks of the 20th century. He is widely credited with being one of the first chefs to emerge from the kitchen and to enter public life. In this role, he has extensively traveled for several decades, promoting French cuisine, starting restaurants and culinary institutions, and participating in other business ventures. - Todd English
William Todd English (born August 29, 1960) is a celebrity chef, restaurateur, author, entrepreneur, and television star based in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He is best known for his cooking show, "Cooking With Todd English", which appears on public television and is produced by Connecticut Public Television; and for his flagship restaurant, Olives, located in Charlestown, Massachusetts. As of 2007, Todd stars in "Food Trip with Todd English", … - Terence Conran
Sir Terence Orby Conran (born in Esher Surrey on October 4 1931) is an English designer, restaurateur, retailer and writer. - Lidia Bastianich
Lidia Maticchio Bastianich is a Croatian-American chef and host of television cooking shows. - Paula Deen
Paula Ann Groover, better known as Paula Deen (born Paula Ann Hiers on January 19, 1947), is an American cook, restaurateur, writer, and TV personality. Deen owns The Lady & Sons restaurant in Savannah, Georgia, where she resides, and runs it with her sons, Jamie and Bobby. She has also published four cookbooks. She is known for her bubbly, "down-home" personality, which makes her a favorite among TV viewers. - Nobu Matsuhisa
Nobuyuki "Nobu" Matsuhisa (松久 信幸 "Matsu-hisa Nobu-yuki"; born 1949 in Saitama, Japan) is an international celebrity chef and restaurateur. Nobu is known for his fusion cuisine which blends traditional Japanese dishes with South American (Peruvian and Argentinian) ingredients. His signature dish is black cod in miso. He was also the pioneer of soft shell crab and shrimp tempura rolls, both attempts to please the western palate. - Antonio Carluccio
Antonio Carluccio, OBE, (born 1937 in Vietri sul Mare, Salerno, Italy) is a London-based Italian chef, restaurateur and food expert. Carluccio was born in south Italy but his father was a stationmaster, and he moved with his father's job when he was young and grew up in Piedmont. He moved to Vienna aged 21 to study languages. He lived in Germany from 1962 to 1975, working as wine merchant in Hamburg. He came to the UK in 1975 to work as a wine merchant, … - Bob Evans
Bob Evans (May 30 1918 - June 21 2007) was the founder of the Bob Evans Restaurants. Born in Sugar Ridge, Ohio to Stanley L. Evans and Elizabeth Lewis Evans, he married his childhood sweetheart, Jewell, with whom he had six children, and they moved to a farm near Rio Grande, Ohio. - Rocco Dispirito
Rocco DiSpirito (born November 19, 1966 in Jamaica, Queens, New York City, USA) is an American chef based in New York City. He is a 1986 graduate of the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York, and a 1990 graduate of Boston University with a bachelor's degree in business. DiSpirito is known for his Italian-American cuisine and his innovative fusion cooking; his mother, Nicolina, is known for her Italian meatballs. - Jean-Claude Vrinat
Jean-Claude Vrinat is owner of the Taillevent restaurant in Paris. This two star restaurant, named after the court chef to King Charles V in the fourteenth century, has long been considered the epitome of Haute Cuisine and is also known for its excellent service and its comprehensive wine list. He served as a judge in the Paris Wine Tasting of 1976. - Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom was elected the 42nd Mayor of the City and County of San Francisco on December 9, 2003. He was sworn into office on January 8, 2004 by his father, the Honorable William Newsom . Mayor Gavin Newsom has made bold ideas the driving force of his administration. As Mayor, Gavin Newsom uses ideas, innovation and practical solutions to improve the quality of life for all San Franciscans. - Tom Douglas
Tom Douglas is an American chef, restaurateur, and writer who won the 1994 James Beard Award for Best Northwest Chef. He has helped to define Northwest cuisine starting with his first restaurant called Dahlia Lounge, which opened in 1989. This was followed by Etta's Seafood and Palace Kitchen, which was nominated for Best New Restaurant by the James Beard Foundation in 1996. More recently he opened a Greek restaurant, Lola, and a pizzeria named Serious Pie. - Auguste Escoffier
Georges Auguste Escoffier was a French chef, restaurateur and culinary writer who popularized and updated traditional French cooking methods. He is a near-legendary figure among chefs and gourmets, and was one of the most important leaders in the development of modern French cuisine. Much of Escoffier's technique was based on that of Antoine Carême, one of the codifiers of French "Haute cuisine", … - Ming Tsai
Ming Tsai (born March 29, 1964) is an American fusion cuisine chef and restaurateur who currently hosts two cooking shows - "Ming's Quest" on the Fine Living television channel and "Simply Ming" on American Public Television - and formerly hosted "East Meets West" on the Food Network, for which he won an Emmy Award. - Trader Vic
Victor Jules Bergeron, Jr. (December 10, 1902 - October 11, 1984) was the founder of a chain of Polynesian-themed restaurants that bore his nickname, Trader Vic, and one of two people who claimed to have invented the Maitai. The other was his amicable competitor for many years, Don the Beachcomber. Bergeron attended Heald College in San Francisco, California. - Bill Granger
Bill Granger is a self-taught Cook, restaurateur and food writer, not only in his native Australia, but also internationally. - Jean-Christophe Novelli
Jean-Christophe Novelli (born 22 February 1961) is a French celebrity chef. - Harry Morton
Harry Morton (born 1981) of Los Angeles, California is President and CEO of Pink Taco restaurants. His father is Peter Morton, co-founder of Hard Rock Cafe, and his grandfather is Arnold Arnie Morton, founder of Morton's Steakhouse Chain. - Damien Hirst
Damien Hirst (born June 7, 1965) is an English artist and the most prominent of the group that has been dubbed "Young British Artists" (or YBAs). He dominated the art scene in Britain during the 1990s and is internationally renowned. Death is a central theme in his work. He is best known for his "Natural History" series, in which dead animals (such as a shark, a sheep or a cow) are preserved, sometimes cut-up, in formaldehyde. - Neil Perry
Neil Perry is a prominent Australian chef, restaurateur, author and television presenter. He also is the co-ordinator for Qantas Flight Catering under his company "Rockpool Consulting" and has a notable food brand sold under his name, available at Woolworths Supermarkets. He owns the critically acclaimed Sydney restaurants, "Rockpool", "XO" and previously, "Wockpool". In late 2006 Neil also opened "Rockpool Bar & Grill" in Melbourne - Jamie Kennedy
Jamie Kennedy is a renowned Canadian chef and owner and operator of "Jamie Kennedy Kitchens." Encompassed in the "Kitchens" group from 2003 is his wine bar which possesses an extensive wine list and a small menu of meal and dessert items more suitable for sharing and sampling. The atmosphere is quite busy and even features a seating area where one can observe the chef and sous chefs preparing plates for guests. - Prue Leith
Prue Leith OBE, Founder, Leith School of Wine Prue Leiths name is synonymous with fine food. She has been a TV-cook, broadcaster, columnist, publisher of 12 cookbooks, restaurateur, co-founder of a cookery charity and founder of the cookery school that bears her name. - Toots Shor
Bernard "Toots" Shor was, during the 1940s and 1950s, the proprietor of a legendary restaurant, Toots Shor's Restaurant, in Manhattan. He was known as a "saloonkeeper", friend, and confidante to some of New York's biggest celebrities during that era. Shor was born in Philadelphia to Orthodox Jewish parents — his father of Austrian descent from Germany and his mother from Russia. - Michael Chow
Michael Chow is a famous international restaurateur and part time actor. Chow was born in Shanghai in 1939. His father was Zhou Xinfang who was regarded as one of China's most famous actors of his time and the leading figure at the Peking Opera. His sister is actress and erstwhile Bond girl Tsai Chin. His ¼ Scottish mother was from a wealthy family whose fortune had been made in tea. He was sent away to a British boarding school when he was 12 and grew up in Europe. - Cameron Mitchell
Cameron Mitchell is a restaurateur from Columbus, Ohio. He is the creator and owner of Cameron Mitchell Restaurants. The company is headquartered and mostly concentrated in Central Ohio, but several of the chains have locations outside of Ohio. - Fernand Point
Fernand Point (1897 - 1955) was a French restaurateur and is considered to be the father of modern French cuisine. From his restaurant "La Pyramide" in Vienne, an out-of-the-way town south of Lyon, he gained three Michelin stars and trained a generation of French master chefs: Paul Bocuse, Alain Chapel, Louis Outhier, Georges Perrier and Jean and Pierre, the Brothers Troisgros. - Kylie Kwong
Kylie Kwong (born 1969 in Australia), is a prominent Australian television chef, author, television presenter and restaurateur. As a fifth generation Australasian, she learned the art and fundamentals of Cantonese cooking, by her mother's side. She undertook much of her apprenticeship at Neil Perry's Rockpool and Wokpool and then at Restaurant Manifredi. Kylie Kwong has since opened the appropriately labelled 'Billy Kwong' restaurant, her first, … - Caesar Cardini
Caesar Cardini (born Cesare was an Italian hotel owner, restaurateur, and chef in Tijuana, Mexico. On July 4, 1924 he invented the Caesar salad, a salad popular in the United States.
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