--- title: These Are the 10 ‘Best’ New Chefs in America description: FOOD and WINE magazine chose new chefs from restaurants including Rose's Luxury and Liholiho Yacht Club for their creativity and food talent canonical: https://time.com/4266638/best-chefs-america-food-wine/ author: Mandy Oaklander article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-04-04T13:00:13.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:00:14.811Z article:section: Health og:title: These Are the 11 ‘Best’ New Chefs in America og:description: FOOD & WINE's favorite new chefs dish on their favorite foods og:url: https://time.com/4266638/best-chefs-america-food-wine/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: These Are the 11 ‘Best’ New Chefs in America twitter:description: FOOD & WINE's favorite new chefs dish on their favorite foods twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # These Are the 11 ‘Best’ New Chefs in America > Sponsored content. 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The results are in, and [this year’s picks](http://www.foodandwine.com/slideshows/best-new-chefs-2016)—nominated by restaurant critics, food writers and other experts, then selected by editors—come from restaurants in nine cities. They’re chosen for their creativity, talent and relative rookie status: none have been in charge of a kitchen for more than five years. Listed in alphabetical order, here are 11 of the best new chefs cooking today, as named by _Food & Wine_, which, like TIME, is owned by Time Inc. ### David Barzelay  Kassie Borreson **Restaurant**: Lazy Bear, San Francisco **Age**: 33 **Favorite food**: Country ham. “It is a uniquely American product that is delicious and complex on its own, whether eaten as crudo or baked, but is also great with vegetables.” ### Kevin Fink  Hayden Spears **Restaurant**: Emmer & Rye, Austin **Age**: 31 **Favorite food**: Pasta, for the simplest of reasons. “The chew of the noodle, how it adheres to the sauce properly, how the noodle itself tastes. Something that can be so refined is also so homey. We crave it when we are young, old and every age in-between.” ### Michael Gulotta  Rush Jagoe **Restaurant**: MoPho, New Orleans **Age**: 35 **Favorite food**: Changes with the seasons. “But if I must have a top pick, it would be grillades and grits, followed by really ripe peaches or satsumas.” ### Edouardo Jordan  Jenny Jimenez **Restaurant**: Salare, Seattle **Age**: 35 **Favorite food**: Yogurt for breakfast; hamburgers for dinner ### Ravi Kapur  Medium Raw Arts **Restaurant**: Liholiho Yacht Club, San Francisco **Age**: 39 **Favorite food**: Dim sum. “I am an admirer of Chinese cuisine—def my all time fave. Japanese and Korean right behind that.” ### Brad Kilgore  Gourmandj **Restaurant**: Alter, Miami **Age**: 30 **Favorite food**: Pasta—especially fettuccini bolognese ### Iliana Regan  Jeff Marini **Restaurant**: Elizabeth, Chicago **Age**: 36 **Favorite food**: Raspberries (but never passes up octopus on a menu). “And hen of the woods mushrooms, breaded and shallow fried in butter!” ### Aaron Silverman  Victoria Milko **Restaurant**: Rose’s Luxury, Washington, D.C. **Age**: 34 **Favorite food**: “Peking duck!” ### Fabian von Hauske and Jeremiah Stone  Photo Courtesy of Contra & Wildair **Restaurant**: Contra/Wildair, New York City **Age**: 26 (von Hauske, on left); 31 (Stone, on right) **Favorite food**: Chilaquiles; pizza ### Kris Yenbamroong  Night + Market SONG Laure Joliet **Restaurant**: Night + Market, Los Angeles **Age**: 33 **Favorite food**: Fried chicken. “My favorite spot is a family-run stall in one of the wet markets in Chiang Rai. I’ve spent a good amount of time hounding them for the recipe, and I think that after a few years of tinkering, I’ve finally figured it out. I call them out by name on our menu too, since we do it in tribute to them: It’s crunchy, salty, fatty, and pretty much the best drinking food.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4266638/best-chefs-america-food-wine/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4266638/best-chefs-america-food-wine/"},"headline":"These Are the 11 ‘Best’ New Chefs in America","datePublished":"2016-04-04T13:00:13.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:00:14.811Z","description":"They dish on their favorite foods","url":"https://time.com/4266638/best-chefs-america-food-wine/","keywords":["Diet & Nutrition","Food","restaurants","Chefs","chef","Restaurant"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mandy Oaklander","jobTitle":"Oaklander is a senior editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mandy-oaklander/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/dietnutrition/","name":"Diet & Nutrition"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4266638/best-chefs-america-food-wine/","name":"These Are the 11 ‘Best’ New Chefs in America"}}]}] ```