And in the little town of Yountville, they'll find Thomas Keller, who used to be a big city chef in New York and Los Angeles.
I'm surrounded by the bounty of the South and reach back to my roots and to my experiences as a young chef in New York City.
At the White Barn Inn Restaurant in Kennebunkport, the only AAA Five Diamond restaurant north of New York City, chef Jonathan Cartwright has a House Smoked Salmon and Marinated Maine Shrimp with a Grape, Pear and Walnut Salad featuring Concord grapes on his holiday menu.
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The most recent star chef to grace the city's shores, though, is Jason Atherton, a wunderkind who broke free from Gordon Ramsay's empire in 2010 and whose restaurants in London, Shanghai and Singapore have attracted a lot of accolades in a short amount of time.
It was the first of its kind in the city, and the chef oversees a menu of teppanyaki and sushi entrees.
We invaded Mr. Yoon's sleek Brentwood home overlooking the city skyline to see how the chef, who makes his restaurant staff polish the drain pipes, spends his downtime and if you can really call it that.
But Norman was only cautioned by the Australian chef de mission and allowed to remain in Mexico City.
"I started making this about two years after Vetri opened, " the chef said, referring to his restaurant in Center City Philadelphia.
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Koch, the billionaire coal and petroleum magnate, attended an invitation-only, haute cuisine dinner and wine tasting at Daniel Restaurant in New York City, owned by the famed French chef, Daniel Boulud.
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The final stop, in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon), includes chef-led cooking classes and a street-food tour -- and boundless opportunities for trying snacks such as banh mi (sandwiches), pho (spicy noodle soup), goi du du (green papaya salad) and banh xeo (rice pancakes with pork and shrimp).
Norwegian Breakaway will have three eateries by Geoffrey Zakarian, a Food Network Iron Chef who has served as a top chef and restaurant owner at a number of New York City venues.
One original recipe, called "Malini's Curry Chickpeas" after the school's chef, was offered as an option in schools across the city on Earth Day, he said.
In the heart of New York City at L'Atelier de Joel Robuchon, chef of the century Joel Robuchon playfully converts an ordinary burger into an extraordinary meal with beef and foie gras burgers with caramelized bell peppers which he also serves at his Las Vegas location.
There are plenty of Portland restaurants vying for the distinction of the city's best, but Le Pigeon, under chef Gabriel Rucker, is (still) considered a notch above the rest.
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Peek, backed by seed funding from SV Angel, Khosla Ventures, Jack Dorsey and Eric Schmidt, launched in October with a feature called Perfect Days, where celebrities such as Tory Burch, Piers Morgan and French Laundry Chef Timothy Hollingsworth, could suggest favorite things to do in a city.
It was a grand affair, uptown New York City style, with guests nibbling on lamb chops conceived by Chef Gabriel Kreuther of the Modern and lounging on sofas for a concert by multi-platinum selling band Matchbox 20.
He hired a school parent as a vegetarian chef to develop the menu and described his school as the vegetarian test kitchen for the city.
With Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts headquartered in the city, the sleek, contemporary structure, with a signature restaurant by star chef Daniel Boulud, is set to be the new flagship for the international brand.
And Chicago chef Rick Bayless, who has been long content to limit his Mexican food empire to the city's downtown, has just announced the opening of two new restaurants at O'Hare.
At his restaurant Cochon co-owned with fellow chef and restaurateur Donald Link Stephen Stryjewski pays tribute to the Cajun delicacies and Southern influences of his adopted city.
The New York-style deli (though not a part of the New York City-based chain) was conceived by two brothers, one an ex stockbroker and the other a chef.
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