News Summary

• Justin Pichetrungsi has been named James Beard Best Chef California in 2023, Food & Wine Best New Chef 2022, LA Times Restaurant of the Year 2022 and recently was a featured speaker at Rene Redzepi’s MAD Conference in Copenhagen.
• A trained artist and successful art director at Disney, his path to the kitchen started when his parents opened Anajak Thai in the LA suburb Sherman Oaks.
• “I have been cooking with dad since I was in high school, and he would show me recipes.
• I lived there basically.
• And so, I developed a love for restaurants pretty early on.”