About Joshua Skenes

“Joshua Skenes could be the best chef in America, and not in some vague, potential sense. He actually could be. He opened his first restaurant in 2009 in the Mission District of San Francisco, as a pop-up, and later found a permanent home for it in the South of Market neighborhood. Within a few short years, he earned a lifetime’s worth of the food world’s highest honors, including a full three Michelin stars. Today, it’s a globally recognized fine-dining institution, and Skenes is regarded as an uncompromising auteur who forged a fire-based culinary genre original enough to be called Skenesian.

His second restaurant opened to a cascade of critical acclaim. The Chronicle, Esquire, GQ and the James Beard Foundation have all called it one of the best new restaurants in the country.

Skenes’ scorching, self-propelled trajectory is unprecedented and his gifts are beyond question. Nearly everyone, including former employees, competitors and others with potential axes to grind, describes him, unprompted, in terms of preternatural greatness.” — The San Francisco Chronicle

In his own words “I’m sure my mom thinks so.”