She left Luce early last year to focus 100% on Atelier Crenn. Her experience primarily spans stints in San Francisco and Los Angeles, most recently at SF’s Luce, where she garnered a Michelin star (that they’ve since retained). The chef is Dominique Crenn, a Morrocan-French chef who grew up in France but has spent much of her culinary career in California. It was a hotly anticipated opening and seems to have met the hype, regarded as one of the top restaurant openings of the year (and awarded a Michelin star). The Wall Street Journal.Atelier Crenn opened almost one year ago, last January.
"Dominique Crenn on 'Chef's Table': 'It's Not About Me Cooking' ". ^ a b c d e f g h Current biography yearbook 2015.Atelier Crenn : metamorphosis of taste.Rebel chef : in search of what matters.She is also known to greet her guests, walking from table to table to do so.
Cooking philosophy Ĭrenn sees herself as an artist, referring to her dishes as "poetic culinaria." Katie McLaughlin notes in a profile of Crenn for The Wall Street Journal that Atelier Crenn "serves a cuisine so visually, texturally, and conceptually inventive it has both delighted and baffled critics and drawn international attention." Ĭrenn is known to treat her staff well, avoiding the yelling and scrutiny that was common in professional kitchens for decades. In 2018, Crenn was awarded the James Beard Foundation Award of Best Chef: West. In March 2018, Bar Crenn opened, earning one Michelin star in its first year, which means Crenn currently holds four Michelin stars. In 2016, Crenn announced plans to open Bar Crenn, a wine bar featuring small plates, next door to Atelier Crenn. Petit Crenn, inspired by the food of her childhood in Brittany, opened in 2015. In 2018, Crenn earned her third Michelin star.
Crenn appeared on Season 2 of Chef's Table, a documentary film series on Netflix. She was awarded the Best female Chef in 2016 by world’s 50 Best Restaurant awards. Atelier Crenn was again awarded two stars in 2014. The Michelin Guide awarded the restaurant a two-star ranking, making Crenn the first ever female chef to receive two stars in the United States. In 2011, she opened her restaurant Atelier Crenn in San Francisco, California. In 2008, management at Intercontinental Hotel offered her a new position, and she joined Luce in San Francisco where she was awarded her first Michelin star in 2009, and was awarded another one-star ranking the next year. Returning to the United States, she became executive chef for Manhattan Country Club in Manhattan Beach, Los Angeles, California and then at Abode Restaurant and Lounge in Santa Monica, California. She was Indonesia's first ever female head chef, but was forced to flee the country during civil unrest in 1998. After two years, she moved on to work at restaurants such as Campton Place, 2223 Market, and Yoyo Bistro at the Miyako Hotel before taking a position as head chef for the restaurant in Intercontinental Hotel in Jakarta, Indonesia. Her first restaurant position was at Stars, a prominent restaurant in the city run by celebrity chef Jeremiah Tower. Career Ĭrenn moved to the United States to pursue her culinary aspirations, landing in San Francisco in the late 1980s. In December 2019, Crenn became engaged to her girlfriend, actress Maria Bello.
InĢ022, Crenn was featured as an Iron Chef on the Netflix show Iron Chef: Quest for an Iron Legend. In 2010, Crenn competed on Iron Chef America against chef Michael Symon, winning the battle. In 2009, Crenn competed on The Next Iron Chef but was eliminated in the Adaptability Challenge, reaching 7th place overall in the season. Ĭrenn has also been featured in several Food Network shows. Disliking the male-dominated French culinary scene, she earned a bachelor's degree in economics and a master's degree in international business. Ĭrenn's experience on the family farm, her mother's cooking, and her visits to high-profile restaurants developed her culinary tastes. Her mother, a cook with an "adventurous palate, took her young daughter to experience Indian, Chinese, Japanese, and Vietnamese restaurants in Paris." Her father, a politician, would take his daughter along when he dined at Michelin star restaurants with his friend, a food critic for Le Télégramme. She spent many summers in Brittany at the family farm. Crenn, originally from Locronan, was adopted at 18 months by a French couple from Versailles.