David Kinch | |
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| Born | April 4, 1961 Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Education | Johnson & Wales University |
| Culinary career | |
| Cooking style | California cuisine |
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David Kinch (born April 4, 1961) is an American chef and restaurateur. He owned and operated Manresa, a restaurant in Los Gatos, California,[1] which was awarded three Michelin stars[2][3] in 2016.[4] Kinch's California cuisine has strong French, Catalan and Japanese influences.[5] Kinch opened a second restaurant in Los Gatos, called The Bywater, on January 12, 2016.[6]
Manresa has been named one of the World's 50 Best Restaurants by Restaurant Magazine, was in America's Top 50 Restaurants by Gourmet, and has received four stars from the San Francisco Chronicle.[7] He is also dean at the International Culinary Center, founded as the French Culinary Institute in 1984. Kinch is a winner of the Best Chef in America award for the Pacific region from the James Beard Foundation[8] as well as GQ's Chef of the Year for 2011.[9]
- ^ "David Kinch. Chef-Proprietor". Manresa Restaurant. Archived from the original on 2014-11-29. Retrieved October 20, 2020.
- ^ Michelin North America Newsroom Bay Area Restaurants Shine in 2012 Michelin Guide Archived 2012-04-06 at the Wayback Machine October 2011
- ^ Bloomberg News Michelin Releases Latest Edition of San Francisco, Bay Area & Wine Country October 2008
- ^ SFGate Michelin 2016 Stars for San Francisco Bay Area October 2015
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
metroactive kinch-0513was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Inside Bywater: Chef David Kinch's NOLA-influenced restaurant". 30 December 2015.
- ^ starchefs.com Chef David Kinch of Manresa - Biography August 2010
- ^ Grub Street Beard Awards: Kinch Clinches Best Chef, Pacific May 2010
- ^ gq.com GQ's Chef of the Year: David Kinch December 2011