For Bon Glaze’s general manager, the early bird gets the worm
STORY: Carly Cooper
PHOTO: Sara Hanna
Carmalita Pridgen, general manager of gourmet donut shop Bon Glaze, is not what you’d expect from a donut maker. A former quartermaster in the Army, she worked part-time in hospitality before graduating from Georgia State University. While working at a Pinkberry yogurt shop, she met Bon Glaze owner Kelly Keith. “Her card […]
BONNIE OWINGS MAKES CELIAC-FRIENDLY COOKIES, CAKES AND PIZZAS THAT ACTUALLY TASTE GOOD
STORY: Carly Cooper
Bonnie Owings started cooking and baking for her family at age 10. When she found out she was gluten-sensitive, she struggled to find gluten-free breads and desserts that actually tasted good. So she started experimenting.
“I would bake [gluten-free items] and bring them to my doctor’s office,” says Owings. “Everyone liked them, and my […]
MISSION + MARKET’S IAN WINSLADE TAKES US BACK TO WHERE IT ALL BEGAN
FUN FACT Winslade’s dream job is race car driver. “The adrenaline you feel working in a restaurant is similar to what you feel […]
FOR RESTAURATEUR DEEDEE NIYOMKUL, LIFE IS A BALANCING ACT
STORY: Carly Cooper
PHOTO: Chucky Kahng
DeeDee Niyomkul is a chef, restaurateur, wife and mother—and a woman who loves to travel, bike and dine at new spots around town. The Collier Hills resident owns Tuk Tuk Thai Food Loft in Brookwood Place and opened upscale modern Thai restaurant Chai Yo in Buckhead in January. Her numerous roles keep her engaged […]
For Chido + Padre’s Executive Chef Jonathan Mercado, cooking is a family affair
STORY: Carly Cooper
PHOTO: Chris Watkins
Buckhead foodies may have noticed that Chido + Padre’s, a Mexican restaurant, took over the old Smokebelly space on Andrews Drive a few months ago. At the helm of the festive new spot is Jonathan Mercado. A graduate of Le Cordon Bleu in Orlando, he has worked at Bartaco, Rosa […]
Amanda Wilbanks, the founder of Southern Baked Pie Company, was so determined to make her business work, she once called 911 to secure a booth at a food festival.
The Southern belle learned that sort of perseverance working in sales before learning to bake from her mother-in-law. “[Being in sales] taught me not to fear rejection,” she says. “When I started Southern Baked Pie in 2012, I […]
Chef Zeb Stevenson tells it like it is
Stevenson doesn’t own a television and has never watched Game of Thrones.
Being a chef is a lot of work,” says Zeb Stevenson, executive chef at Watershed on Peachtree, the acclaimed Buckhead eatery known for its upscale Southern cuisine. Stevenson, 42, has never been one to sugarcoat things. But his honesty is one of the reasons people […]
Robin Schick takes a bite out the cheese-making biz.
EXTRA BITE “I think there is a place for all kinds of cheese. I love Rotel, Velveeta and the soupy, milky white cheese you get at Mexican restaurants.”
Robin […]
Hundreds of desserts later, Ami Dand celebrates five years as Legendary Events’ executive pastry chef
EXTRA BITE Says Dand: “I’m very artistically inclined. I took a calligraphy class a couple of years ago. I make greeting cards with stamps and paint.”
If you’ve lived in Atlanta for a while, you’ve probably sampled at least one of Ami Dand’s desserts. As executive pastry chef at Buckhead-based […]
F&B executive chef Gabriel Capo Camargo fell into cooking for all the wrong reasons.
This is not your typical boy meets girl story. When he was 16 years old, Gabriel Capo Camargo met a friend of his sister’s who worked as a chef. “She told me being a chef was a good job, that you could travel and cook and meet people,” says Camargo, now 34 and […]
