Chef Chantelle Sookram dusting sugar over a long tart

Mendocino Chef

Our Team

The chefs who'll be in your kitchen, and the people behind every event.

The people who’ll be in your kitchen. Book any of us on our own, or together when the occasion calls for the whole team.

Chef Chantelle Sookram plating a row of salads on the pass during dinner service.

Culinary Lead

Chef Chantelle Sookram

Trinidad-born and trained at Johnson & Wales, Chantelle leads our kitchen and builds the menus with the farms around us.

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Chef Keith Kalmanowicz

Chef & Event Producer

Chef Keith Kalmanowicz

Fifteen-plus years in fine dining, private clubs and big-table events. Keith cooks, produces the events and makes sure everything around the plate runs on time.

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How it all started is on our story page.

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