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Holly Smith

Hire Holly Smith through Celebrity Chef Network. Booking a celebrity chef requires an expert team. Let the booking agents at Celebrity Chef Network help you hire the best one for your brand or event. To contact Celebrity Chef Network, call 212-410-9879 or email booking@celebritychefnetwork.com.

BIO: Holly Smith grew up loving food and studied political science at Colby College and Washington College and later the Baltimore International Culinary College. In Ireland, she completed an externship with Master Chef Peter Timmins.

After moving to Seattle in 1993, she accepted a position with Tom Douglas at the Dahila Lounge for four years. Chef Tamara Murphy encouraged Holly Smith to work at Brasa and spent a year as sous chef, leaving to open Café Juanita in 2000.

Café Juanita showcases Holly’s love of Northern Italian food and wine, a commitment to organics and sustainability mixed with a holistic approach. The Café has been awarded numerous awards both locally and nationally. Locally with 3 1/2 stars from the Times and  4 stars from the Seattle Post Intelligencer, as well as recognition in Esquire, Wine Spectator, Gourmet, Food & Wine, Seattle Magazine, The Robb Report, Travel and Leisure,  Sunset and was the 2008 Best Chef Northwest from The James Beard Awards. Holly Smith is available for cooking demonstrations, hosting and endorsements.

WHO REPRESENTS HOLLY SMITH: Celebrity Chef Holly Smith can be hired for endorsements and events in roles such as culinary consultant, event planner, public speaker, autograph signings, cooking demonstrations, hosting, Mommy Blogger events, SMTS, public relation campaigns, team building events and corporate hospitality.

To hire Holly Smith for an endorsement, personal appearances, or book signing contact the experts at Celebrity Chef Network at booking@celebritychefnetwork.com  or 212-410-9879.

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Greg Carso

Hire Greg Carso through Celebrity Chef Network. Booking a celebrity chef requires an expert team. Let the booking agents at Celebrity Chef Network help you hire the best one for your brand or event. To contact Celebrity Chef Network, call 212-410-9879 or email booking@celebritychefnetwork.com.

CUISINE: Italian

BIO: Greg Carso is the executive chef at the Metropolitan Club in Chicago. Greg’s love of food comes from his Italian background and his techniques—he useses his hands to create delicious creations. Greg attened Chicago’s Washburne Trade School and then La varenne Ecole de Cuisine in Paris before working at Levy Restaurants organization, an off-premise catering company, and the Cash House restaurant. He has also worked at the Metropolitan Club and several ClubCorp clubs.

He is well known for his messy kitchens while experiments and creating new and different cuisines. Greg Carso believes the messier the kitchen the better, “One of the things I love most about being a chef is the ‘high’ I get after a hectic day of trouble-shooting and making things work”. Greg Carso is available for speaking engagements, cooking demonstrations and hosting.

WHO REPRESENTS GREG CARSO: Celebrity Chef Greg Carso can be hired for endorsements and events in roles such as culinary consultant, event planner, public speaker, autograph signings, cooking demonstrations, hosting, Mommy Blogger events, SMTS, public relation campaigns, team building events and corporate hospitality.

To hire Greg Carso for an endorsement, personal appearances, or book signing contact the experts at Celebrity Chef Network at booking@celebritychefnetwork.com  or 212-410-9879.

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Geoffrey Blount

Hire Geoffrey Blount through Celebrity Chef Network. Booking a celebrity chef requires an expert team. Let the booking agents at Celebrity Chef Network help you hire the best one for your brand or event. To contact Celebrity Chef Network, call 212-410-9879 or email booking@celebritychefnetwork.com.

CHARITIES: Bakery Bistro Initiative at Central Piedmont Community College – helps raise scholarship money for baking and pastry-arts students

BIO: Celebrity Chef Geoffrey Blount is a certified executive pastry chef (CEPC) from Stanley, NC. Chef Blount currently works as the executive pastry chef and head instructor of the Bakery and Pastry Arts program at Central Piedmont Community College (CPCC). He graduated from CPCC in 1995 with an AAS degree in Culinary Arts and also attended the French Pastry School in Chicago. Chef Geoffrey Blount has been teaching at CPCC since 2007 and also is the owner of Sugar Buzz Pastry.

Prior to accepting a position with CPCC, Chef Geoffrey Blount’s professional career consists of work as a Pastry Chef, Executive Chef and Owner at top hotels, shops and clubs throughout the southeastern United States. He is a member of the American Culinary Federation (ACF), was named the 2009 Charlotte Chef of the Year, owned pastry shops that won the Best Pastry Shop award in 2005 and 2006, and was a Top Ten Charlotte Chef for 2004. Additionally, his dessert creations were featured at the James Beard Dinner in 2004 and 2005, an impressive distinction. It is Chef Blount’s career goal to become a certified master pastry chef, of which there are only 14 in the entire United States. Celebrity Chef Geoffrey Blount is available for speaking engagements, endorsements, and cooking demonstrations.

APPEARANCES: Food Network

WHO REPRESENTS GEOFFREY BLOUNT: Celebrity Chef Geoffrey Blount can be hired for endorsements and events in roles such as culinary consultant, event planner, public speaker, autograph signings, cooking demonstrations, hosting, Mommy Blogger events, SMTS, public relation campaigns, team building events and corporate hospitality.

To hire Geoffrey Blount for an endorsement, personal appearances, or book signing contact the experts at Celebrity Chef Network at booking@celebritychefnetwork.com  or 212-410-9879.

Gene Briggs

Hire Gene Briggs through Celebrity Chef Network. Booking a celebrity chef requires an expert team. Let the booking agents at Celebrity Chef Network help you hire the best one for your brand or event. To contact Celebrity Chef Network, call 212-410-9879 or email booking@celebritychefnetwork.com.

CHARITIES: Matthews Farmers Market, Local Farmers Initiatives

BIO: Celebrity chef Gene Briggs has been a culinary mainstay in the Charlotte area for more than a decade. With over 25 years of experience, Chef Briggs has become a master of his craft. His restaurants Blue and Table are two of Charlotte’s most sought after restaurant reservations and have consistently been ranked as two of the city’s top eateries.

Chef Briggs got his start in the culinary industry in 1979, working in various restaurants located in upstate New York. Here, he honed and perfected his practice of using fresh ingredients to create a variety of dishes that sample cuisines from around the world. This philosophy of only using the freshest ingredients has defined and inspired Chef Briggs’ cooking throughout his career, something that is still evident at his restaurants today.

In 1991, Briggs moved to Charlotte to work at Prisms Restaurant. After getting his start in the Queen City, he spent time working at many of the city’s most well known restaurants. Finally, in 2003, Briggs opened up his own restaurant for the first time, Blue Restaurant & Bar. To no surprise, the establishment quickly gained a reputation as one of Charlotte’s best restaurants.

Serving up a variety of cuisines, Blue’s menu is inspired by Spanish, French, Sicilian, Italian, and Moroccan cuisines. Chef Briggs stays true to his philosophy of only using the freshest ingredients, as he purchases locally, farm grown ingredients. Additionally, Briggs as an advocate of developing a communal relationship between local farmers and his restaurants and uses Blue as a tasty vehicle to display the advantages of such a relationship.

Following the success of Blue Restaurant & Bar, Briggs opened Table Restaurant & Bar in 2006. Table also saw immediate success and firmly planted Briggs among Charlotte’s most sought after chefs. All in all, Chef Brigg’s restaurants have won the “Best in Hot Food” category at Taste of the Nation in 2000, 2004, 2006, and 2008, have been recognized by Zagat as one of “America’s Top Restaurants” and have earned numerous Open Table awards. Brigg’s has also participated in three James Beard Dinners and numerous Chef’s Best Dinners.

Additionally, Chef Gene Briggs gives instructional cooking sessions once a month at his restaurant, Blue. Sessions are available to the public via signup, and each month Briggs focuses one utilizing one, fresh ingredient. Celebrity Chef Gene Briggs is available for speaking engagements, endorsements, and cooking demonstrations.

WHO REPRESENTS GENE BRIGGS: Celebrity Chef Gene Briggs can be hired for endorsements and events in roles such as culinary consultant, event planner, public speaker, autograph signings, cooking demonstrations, hosting, Mommy Blogger events, SMTS, public relation campaigns, team building events and corporate hospitality.

To hire Gene Briggs for an endorsement, personal appearances, or book signing contact the experts at Celebrity Chef Network at booking@celebritychefnetwork.com  or 212-410-9879.

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Gavin Kaysen

Hire Gavin Kaysen through Celebrity Chef Network. Booking a celebrity chef requires an expert team. Let the booking agents at Celebrity Chef Network help you hire the best one for your brand or event. To contact Celebrity Chef Network, call 212-410-9879 or email booking@celebritychefnetwork.com.

NETWORKS: Food Network

SHOWS: Next Iron Chef

BIO: In 2005, Gavin Kaysen took some time away from his own kitchen to do a brief internship in the kitchen at DANIEL. Today, that choice to make a move paid off when he was named executive chef at Daniel Boulud’s Café Boulud in New York.

“Gavin has energy, talent and incredible motivation,” says Daniel Boulud. “He is very well trained and eager to embrace classic French cooking.” Gavin Kaysen has been praised by many for his eagerness to learn, passion for cooking and drive to be the best. During his tenure as chef de cuisine of El Bizchoco in San Diego, he made his first appearance as guest chef at the James Beard House, was awarded Best Chef, Critics Choice, and took first place on the US National team competition for the Bocuse d’Or in Chicago, and finally went to France to represent the US at the 2007 Bocuse d’Or. Gavin Kaysen has been named one of Food & Wine magazine’s 10 Best New Chefs and was a competitor in the Next Iron Chef series. Gavin is available for hosting, corporate hospitality, and cooking demonstrations.

APPEARANCES: Food Network, The Next Iron Chef

WHO REPRESENTS GAVIN KAYSEN: Celebrity Chef Gavin Kaysen can be hired for endorsements and events in roles such as culinary consultant, event planner, public speaker, autograph signings, cooking demonstrations, hosting, Mommy Blogger events, SMTS, public relation campaigns, team building events and corporate hospitality.

To hire Gavin Kaysen for an endorsement, personal appearances, or book signing contact the experts at Celebrity Chef Network at booking@celebritychefnetwork.com  or 212-410-9879.

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