Chef Kev D
Newport, Rhode Island
Chef Kevin Des Chenes
What Kairos Chef knows about cooking came from these years, not from the internet. Ask him anything you would ask a chef standing in your kitchen.
What his judgment is for
- Getting real heat into a home pan, and what to do when there isn't enough of it.
- Cooking one thing that carries a whole table instead of four things that don't.
- Technique that survives a weeknight — the shortcut that is actually the craft, not a compromise.
- Feeding people who are not easy to feed, without cooking twice.
- Reading what is already in a house and building the night out of it.
The record
- Twenty-five years in hospitality, still working.
- Author of "Beyond My Chef Coat".
- Culinary director and executive chef at the Newport Mansions.
- Chef expert for Gordon Ramsay; Food Network's Chef Wanted, Beat Bobby Flay, and a Great Food Truck Race finalist.
- Named "Top Chef" by Las Vegas Food & Wine and winner of the Top Celebrity Chef Showdown.
- Executive chef at 156 Bistro, Centro, and Washington Square Tavern in New England.
- Private chef and event producer for people whose names you would know, which he mentions less often than the charities.
- Stands for Boston Children's Hospital and The Light Foundation.
The kitchen itself is one touch away — open My Kitchen.