The 2024
Speaker Lineup

Columnist with the Los Angeles Times, author of “Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America”

General Manager,
Hav & Mar

Founder & CEO, Table22

Principal | MPN Realty

Chef and restauranteur

Chef and owner of Justice of the Pies

Food & Wine Best New Chef in America (2022) and Emerging Chef by the James Beard Foundation (2023)

Writer and editor covering the intersection of food and culture as deputy editor of Eater.com

Chef and the co-founder of Asheville, North Carolina's beloved Cúrate

Restaurant editor and the author of the publication's debut cookbook, Eater: 100 Essential Restaurant Recipes from the Authority on Where to Eat and Why It Matters

Chef and founder Hearth restaurant and Brodo broth company

James Beard Award-winning food writer and columnist for The Washington Post

Food & Wine’s “Best New Chefs” 2022 and went on to become a 2023 finalist for the James Beard Foundation’s “Best Chef: South” Award

Owner of Lyaness, Seed Library and Mr Lyan Studio in London, Super Lyan in Amsterdam and Silver Lyan in Washington DC

Chef + Proprietor, AC Restaurants

Chef and owner of Crafted Hospitality and head judge and executive producer of the Emmy-winning Bravo hit series, Top Chef

Chef owner Compere Lapin, Babs Nola, Nina’s Creole Cottage

Chef of Pascual and Pastry Chef of Lutèce awarded NYT 50 Restaurant list 2022 in Washington DC, Best New Chef in 2023 by Food & Wine

Award-winning tastemaker and innovator in media and food, former Editor in Chief of Food & Wine magazine

Columnist for The New York Times Magazine’s Eat Column

Co-Founder of ILIS in Greenpoint

Legendary French Chef

Senior Vice President | Strategy and Engagement, PRLA

Chef & Creative Director

Author of The Dish: The Lives and Labor Behind One Plate of Food (2023) and host of popular podcast Andrew Talks to Chefs

Esquire

Chef and Founder - Kann and Sousòl

The dining and restaurant critic at the Detroit Free Press

Owner/baker of Barrio Bread

Senior Social Media Manager at Epicurious and Bon Appétit

Founding Partner & Chairman of Helbraun & Levey

Co-founded the original Noma fermentation lab

Chef and Host of Top Chef

Food reporter and video host for The New York Times

Council member, a civil rights and housing attorney

Editor in Chief of Food & Wine

Chef/Owner of Birdies, Food and Wine Magazine’s 2023 “Restaurant of the Year”

Three-time James Beard journalism award winner, a seven-time finalist, and a frequent selectee for the Best Food Writing anthology

Chef and owner of Dakar NOLA

Executive Chef and owner of Clover Hill

Co-owner of Sap Sua

Brewmaster of The Brooklyn Brewery, the author of “The Brewmaster’s Table”, and the Editor-in-Chief of “The Oxford Companion to Beer”

Creator and host of the two-time James Beard and Webby Award winning podcast The Sporkful

Award-winning whisky journalist, presenter and consultant, and founder of OurWhisky and The OurWhisky Foundation

Chef-owner, Claud

Author and former New York Times food critic and Editor in Chief of Gourmet Magazine

Host, Somebody Feed Phil

Staff writer at The New Yorker

Chef and partner of the Michelin-starred Oyster Oyster in Washington, DC and the recipient of the 2023 James Beard Award for Outstanding Chef in America

Chef/CEO

Pastry Chef, James Beard Outstanding Pastry Chef Award Nominee, Food + Wine's Best New Chef Class of 2022

National food correspondent for the New York Times

Freelance writer and Contributing Editor at Food & Wine, most recently the Restaurant Editor at Food & Wine magazine

CEO & Founder of meez

Trained culinary expert, food writer, and dynamic television personality who is a permanent judge on BRAVO’s Emmy, Critics Choice, and James Beard Award-winning series Top Chef

Owner, Claud

Co-Founder and CEO of Solomon Group; Tales of the Cocktail Foundation Board of Directors Co-Chair

Chef of the trailblazing Philadelphia restaurant Zahav, and co-owner of CookNSolo Restaurants (Federal Donuts, Dizengoff, Goldie, K'Far, Laser Wolf, and Lilah)

Restaurant editor at Bon Appetit

Chef, Children’s Book Author, Farmer, And Social Entrepreneur; co-founder of Honeysuckle Provisions and Honeysuckle Projects

Author and journalist

Philadelphia-based freelance writer and co-founder of Saltete, a travel guide publishing platform

James Beard Award-winning food and travel journalist and cookbook author

Head of Cru Luv Selections

Chef owners of beloved, Michelin-starred Italian American restaurant Don Angie in the West Village of New York City

Editor, Award-Winning Author

Chef and a three-time James Beard semi-finalist

Chef/co-owner of Heirloom Hospitality (Lita Esquire's Best New Restaurants 2023, Heirloom Kitchen, and Heirloom @ The St. Laurent), 2x James Beard semifinalist, and contestant on Top Chef Season 16

Chef/Owner of Friday Saturday Sunday, Friday Saturday Sunday won the award for “Outstanding Restaurant” from the James Beard Foundation in 2023

Chef & Owner, Virtue Restaurant, Daisy's P-Boy & Tavern, Mustard Seed Kitchen, Top This Mac and Cheese

Editor-in-chief of Eater

Founder and co-owner of High Street Hospitality Group, 2023 “Outstanding Restaurateur” by the James Beard Foundation

Emmy-winning and four-time James Beard Award-winning TV personality, chef, writer and social justice advocate