Daniel Patterson

Celebrity Chef for hire Daniel Patterson is a trendsetter in modern Californian cuisine. He is a celebrated, James Beard Award winning chef, restaurateur and food writer who has opened a number of successful restaurants in the San Francisco area. Today, he’s left the high end, fine dining food scene behind to open his own unique fast-food chain with fellow celebrity chef speaker Roy Choi called Loco’l.

Daniel grew up on the east coast in Massachusetts and is completely self-taught in the kitchen. He moved to Sonoma, California and opened his first restaurant Babette’s in 1994 at age 25. The French-inspired restaurant was open for 5 years before Daniel shifted his focus and opened another restaurant called Elizabeth Daniel in 2000. Both restaurants were heralded as foodie hot spots in the California food scene and it wasn’t long before Daniel had become one of the top celebrity chefs on the West Coast.

Daniel opened Coi in San Francisco in 2006. The restaurant featured haute cuisine with an emphasis on local ingredients and a more personal dining experience. Coi earned 2 Michelin Stars and was one of few restaurants to earn 4 stars from the San Francisco Chronicle. He now owns and operates several restaurants in the Oakland area called Plum Bar and Haven. Daniel has also become a quite popular food writer who has shared his comments on the culinary industry in columns for major publications such as Food & Wine Magazine, The New York Times and San Francisco Magazine.

What’s so great about Celebrity Chef Daniel is his commitment to the dining experience and satisfaction of those he feeds. It’s the reason why he chose to leave the high dollar food scene behind and get back to his ultimate goal of positively impacting as many people as possible through his food and the dining experience. And it’s working! Loco’l now has 2 locations in Oakland and San Francisco serving up great food at an affordable price.

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Katsuya Fukushima

Celebrity Chef Speaker Katsuya Fukushima is a math wiz who has used his college degree to shake up the culinary world through molecular gastronomy. His journey is a true inspiration and testimony of hard work and brains that not every ordinary chef has.

Katsuya was a double major in math and art but he knew while in college he was destined to chef. He enrolled at L’Academie de Cuisine in Gaithersburg, Maryland and never looked back. Chef Katsuya worked several line cook jobs within the next few years; one being Cashion’s Eat Place under the guidance of Ann Cashion. Soon after his work for her he decided to fully devote himself to Jaleo, a tapas bar in Bethesda. After working at Jaleo for 3 years he assisted the esteemed owner and celebrity chef  Jose Andres in opening Café Atlantico where Katsuya was offered the chef de cuisine position.

His experience as Jaleo’s chef de cuisine gave Katsuya a presumable amount of freedom in how he wanted to prepare the menu. Chef Katsuya then began to unlock the wonders of molecular gastronomy. The term refers to new and inventive way of using science to aid your cooking. Katsuya was even recognized by Bon Appetit magazine as being the “pioneer” of molecular gastronomy.

In 2010 Katsuya competed against Jose Garces on Iron Chef: America in the battle of Mahi Mahi; he won with ease. Since then Katsuya has made several appearances on cooking shows such as Meet the Chef, No Reservations, and Gourmet’s Diary of a Foodie. He recently opened his own restaurant in Washington. D.C. in 2013 named Daikaya. Daikaya features a highly personal and hand crafted menu that reflects all of Katsuya’s dreams and experiences.

When he is not in the kitchen, Katsuya enjoys volunteering at fundraisers and making appearances and speeches at local colleges. His two most noted appearances are at Alex’s Lemonade Stand and Autism Speaks. He also recently spoke with students at the College of William and Mary about hopes and aspirations and where they can take you if you work hard.

Marcel Vigneron

Known for incorporating molecular gastronomy into his cooking, Marcel Vigneron will again be utilizing his trademark culinary style August 6 against Richard Blais on Top Chef Duels. This will not be his first time on Top Chef though; he was actually the runner-up of the competition during its second season in 2006, during which time he was also developing his talents as the Master Cook at Joël Robuchon in Las Vegas. After placing behind Ilan Hall in 2006, he eventually went on to become the Executive Sous Chef at The Bazaar in the SLS Hotel in Beverley Hills in 2008. Two years later, Vigneron achieved his own reality television show on the Syfy network entitled Marcel’s Quantum Kitchen, which followed Vigneron and his crew as they tried to meet the substantial demands of their clients using Vigneron’s innovative and unique culinary technique.

Although Vigneron’s show only lasted six episodes, he was very successful as a guest on numerous other cooking shows. In 2011 he returned to the Top Chef series on Top Chef: All-Stars, in which he was eventually eliminated after the Restaurant Wars challenge. Returning to the television screen again in 2012 as a contestant on The Next Iron Chef: Redemption, Vigneron was able to make it to the final four of the competition before being eliminated. The next year, he made an appearance in Iron Chef America with Spike Mendelsohn, facing off against Iron Chefs Geoffrey Zakarian and Alex Guarnaschelli in a special Halloween edition of the series. More recently in 2014, he appeared on the NBC show Food Fighters, in which he competed against Elisha Joyce and won.

An eclectic celebrity chef speaker with a knack for incorporating the science of molecular gastronomy into his dishes, Vigneron is a young chef with the talent to take him very far in the culinary industry.

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Homaro Cantu

Homaro Cantu has a true rags to riches story. After being homeless for three years as a child, the young Homaro knew it would be his mission to fight world hunger and poverty when he grew up. After receiving his culinary education at the Western Culinary Institute and working under revered chef Charlie Trotter, Celebrity Chef Homaro opened his own Moto Restaurant in Chicago. Now a social entrepreneur, Homaro is on the frontier of a new and innovative food and dining experience. As a molecular gastronomer, he experiments with ingredients, chemistry, and physics to create new food possibilities. While dining at Moto, you might have the chance to eat carbonated fruit with interactive utensils or his infamous edible paper that has been featured in national publications such as Gourmet, the Wall Street Journal, and Food and Wine.

Part scientist and part chef, Homaro founded his own company, Cantu Designs, which has numerous patents and is revolutionizing the way food will be delivered and consumed. He is working hard not to just serve up interesting dishes but also solving today’s food problems; the first ultra efficient indoor farm was implemented in his restaurant, requiring zero food miles from farm to table, and experts everywhere are working to get this technology around the world where it is needed. Homaro’s designs and inventions have caught the attention of the media and television, from the New York Times and Forbes to the Ellen DeGeneres Show and CNN’s The Next List.

Homaro has competed on Iron Chef America twice, both times against chef Masaharu Morimoto, and also hosts his own television show Future Food with Ben Roche. The innovative chef is also the author of The Miracle Berry Diet Cookbook. Homaro is truly changing the face of the food industry, and his technologies are sure to have a worldwide impact.

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