Suzanne Goin is a

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from

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. As a restaurateur, she runs three fine dining restaurants in the Los Angeles area: a.o.c., Lucques, and Tavern, which she runs with partner Caroline Styne, as well as four Larders, a marketplace/restaurant, Lucques Catering and the Larder Baking Company, a wholesale bakery. She is also co-founder of The Hungry Cat with her husband, David Lentz. As an award-winning chef, she was named as one of

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's "best new chefs of 1999" and was nominated for

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awards as Outstanding Chef eight times, finally winning the coveted national award in 2016. Her restaurants have been praised by

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(which awarded Lucques three stars).2008 Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival
Early in her career 2006 Goin won the

award for Best Chef: California as well as for her cookbook, Sunday Suppers at Lucques.

Career

When she was a high school senior at Marlborough School in Los Angeles, she interned at

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just after the departure of

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and after graduation, enrolled in

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where she graduated with honors. Goin then worked at a series of highly successful restaurants, including Alice Water's

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's Olives. In the early 1990s, she traveled to France. She worked with

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at his three star Arpege, along with stints at Didier Oudill's two-star Pain and Patisserie Christian Pottier. After returning to Los Angeles in 1995, she spent two years at Mark Peel’s celebrated restaurant Campanile ending up as

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. Goin has won or been nominated for a total of 11

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Restaurants

In 1998, Suzanne Goin opened Lucques, which won recognition from Food & Wine and Gourmet magazines and also won a James Beard nomination in 2006 for Outstanding Service. In 2002, she opened A.O.C. which won 3 stars from the Los Angeles Times. Her third restaurant, The Hungry Cat, opened in Hollywood in 2005. A casual seafood restaurant, it also received positive reviews. The Larder at Burton Way opened in Beverly Hills in 2013.

Media

Goin's cookbook, Sunday Suppers at Lucques, was published in late 2005. The next year the book received the James Beard Foundation's award for "Best Cookbook From a Professional Viewpoint." She has also made several television appearances including

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's series

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food critic

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References

External links

Suzanne Goin at starchefs.comSuzanne Goin at bonappetit.com
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