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Drumroll Please: Announcing Seattle Met’s Next Hot Chefs, Class of 2014

You know the deal: Stiff competition, toughest choice ever, yada yada yada. This year it’s truer than ever.

Honestly people: For our second annual Next Hot Chefs round-up—where we solicited your nominations for Seattle restaurants’ greatest unsung heroes and future household names—we got enough fine suggestions to fill three rosters’ worth of winners. To all who sent nominations for their favorite rising stars, thank you. They were uncommonly thoughtful and we considered them all.

In the end, we could choose but five—and they’re superstars, from the California Girl-turned-Middle East gastronome to the chef who was born the same year, to the month, as his famous restaurant. Meet them here (Shhh! A full four days before the June issue hits the stands!)—then come meet them in person at Seattle Met’s Next Hot Chefs 2014 party, to be held June 4 at the Bullitt Center.  

Oh, and they’re bringing food.

Get your tickets here.

 











Kathryn Robinson
Kathryn Robinson
Senior Writer Seattle native Kathryn Robinson, award-winning restaurant critic and senior writer at Seattle Met, has been anonymously reviewing restaurants for over 30 years—first as editor of the Best Places guidebook series, then as staff critic at Seattle Weekly and contributing critic at The Seattle Times and Seattle magazine.  Midcareer she spent a year-long sabbatical studying comparative religion as a Knight Fellow at Stanford University where she had been an undergrad 10 years earlier, gaining a knowledge base she now calls upon for her monthly “Back Fence” column on our collective urban existence and the meaning it holds for our personal lives. In her off hours she is a partner and a parent—which means she has no off hours.