The celebration of Women's History Month continues as Chef Dakota Weiss joins the We Know WeHo team as our featured guest. Chef Dakota has literally cooked her away across America after having graduated from the Scottsdale Culinary Institute. She got her start at Santa Fe's legendary Coyote Café, did a brief stint at Dallas' Mansion on Turtle Creek and then headed to Atlanta to study with world-class French Chef Bruno at Menard Ritz-Carlton in Buckhead where she became Chef de Cuisine for the Sarasota private Ritz-Carlton Beach Club.
Los Angeles foodies went wild when Dakota transferred out to Jer-ne at the Ritz-Carlton in Marina Del Rey, and Angeleno magazine named her "Best New Chef" in 2006. She then found herself in the heart of West Hollywood at the Executive Chef at the Sunset Tower's Hollywood A-list dining room on. Chef Dakota helped open Parc in Philadelphia and returned to her California roots reopen Santa Monica's Shangri-LA as their executive chef. She served as the executive chef for Nine-Thirty restaurant and The Backyard at the W Westwood and was the executive chef and owner of Estrella, a rock and roll bohemian restaurant on The Sunset Strip.
Sweetfin, an all-raw fish casual dining restaurant is her newest venture. Sweetfin is a healthful, chef-driven, California inspired poké and plant based bowl concept that uses local produce, sustainable fish, and innovative ingredients. Their entire menu is gluten free and all of their menu items are made in-house, from scratch, daily. Sweetfin was founded in Santa Monica, CA in 2015 and has eleven locations servicing Southern California. Check out the latest collaboration with Los Angeles celebrity fitness trainer, Lacey Stone, and order a Protein Power Bowl, a Brain Booster or Immunity Bowl.
Chef Dakota competed as a chef-testant on Top Chef Texas and at one time served her own brand of innovative gourmet popcorn at Dakota's POP Parlor. (Insider tip - try the white chocolate, matcha, coconut and sesame seed gourmet MATCHA POPCORN at Sweetfin!)
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