{{Infobox chef , name = Stewart Woodman , image = , caption = , birth_date = {{Birth year and age, 1969 , birth_place = Bellefonte,

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Best Restaurant Minneapolis 2009 (''CityPages'')
Semifinalist, Best Chef: Midwest, James Beard Foundation, 2009 and 2012 , website = Stewart Woodman (born 1969 in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania) is an American chef. His flagship restaurant, Heidi's, was ranked the best restaurant in Minneapolis. His cooking style is Modern American and French Technique. He was educated at Southern Alberta Institute of Technology in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He was born in The United States of America and was raised in Montreal, Quebec. At the age of 20 he moved to Banff, Alberta, where he worked for three and a half years at Banff Springs Hotel as an apprentice cook. Woodman next worked as a sous chef at the 40-year-old William Tell Restaurant in Vancouver, British Columbia. In 1994, Woodman moved back to the United States and was hired as a line cook for Michael Romano at Union Square Café. One year later he went to work at Lespinasse, located in the

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to cook under Gray Kunz. He stayed for one and a half years before moving to

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in 1997 to work under Eric Ripert, where he stayed two and a half years, working as a sous chef for most of that time. In 1999 he began working for Alain Ducasse, in Paris, Monaco, and finally as the opening sous chef at ADNY-Alain Ducasse at the Essex House. He then moved to a sous chef position at the Jean-Georges Vongerichten restaurant in the Trump Tower. He moved to Minneapolis in 2002, and opened Levain, followed by Five Restaurant & Street Lounge where he won the title of Best New Chef from Food & Wine Magazine.{{citation, url=http://www.foodandwine.com/best_new_chefs/stewart-woodman, publisher=

, accessdate=2010-10-14, title=Best New Chefs 2006 - Stewart Woodman In 2007 he opened Heidi's Minneapolis with his wife, business partner, and pastry chef Heidi Woodman. Heidi's closed in 2013. Shortly after opening Heidi's based on a comment in a review he launched a food based blog called ''Shefzilla: A Food Blog''. In 2010 he published ''Shefzilla: Conquering Haute Cuisine At Home''.

Artist in residence

Woodman was an

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at the Minneapolis Sabes Jewish Community Center in 2011.{{citation, title=JCC Maccabi ArtsFest Minneapolis Artists in Residence, url=http://sabesjcc.org/media/artsfest-airs.htm, publisher=Sabes Jewish Community Center (Minneapolis), archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727230347/https://www.sabesjcc.org/media/artsfest-airs.htm, archivedate=2011-07-27

Bibliography

*''Shefzilla: Conquering Haute Cuisine at Home'' (2010) {{ISBN, 978-0-87351-809-3

References

{{Reflist {{Authority control {{DEFAULTSORT:Woodman, Stewart American chefs American male chefs Living people 1969 births People from Bellefonte, Pennsylvania