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Person · executive chef of The Restaurant at Meadowood and co-owner of The Charter Oak restaurant

Christopher Kostow

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Christopher Kostow (born 1976 in Highland Park, Illinois) trained in France, including at the Michelin-starred Le Jardin des Sens in Montpellier, worked as a sous chef under Daniel Humm in San Francisco, and then led Chez TJ in Mountain View, California, to two Michelin stars. He became executive chef of The Restaurant at Meadowood in St. Helena in 2008; the restaurant held three Michelin stars consecutively from 2011 to 2019, and Kostow received the James Beard Foundation Award for Best Chef: West in 2013. He is co-owner of The Charter Oak in St. Helena, opened in the stone building that formerly housed Tra Vigne and operating on a live-fire, family-style model, and is the author of the cookbook A New Napa Cuisine (2014); the Meadowood restaurant was destroyed in the 2020 Napa County wildfires.

Cartelier documents 0 menus published by kitchens naming Christopher Kostow, most recently as executive chef of The Restaurant at Meadowood and co-owner of The Charter Oak restaurant at The Charter Oak. Roles are established from menus and sources in the archive.

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