Kaitlin Steets will launch Littlefoot, a tasting-menu restaurant, in the acclaimed space.
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Timothy Malcolm
2/1/2021 at 2:55pm
Kaitlin Steets.
For Kaitlin Steets, a major star on the rise in the Houston culinary world, the spotlight is about to shine more brightly.
The current chef de cuisine at Justin Yu s Theodore Rex, and 2020 James Beard semifinalist for Rising Star Chef, will launch a tasting-menu restaurant called Littlefoot at the very space she cooks today, 1302 Nance St, running from February 13 to April. Theodore Rex will take a three-month sabbatical as Steets shows off her skills in her first solo enterprise. Itâs always been a dream of mine to run my own restaurant, says Steets in a press release. âI m lucky that I get to do my first solo work in a kitchen and a restaurant that I feel so comfortable in.
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New French pop-up steps in for acclaimed downtown Houston restaurant
Courtesy of Littlefoot
Courtesy of Littlefoot
Theodore Rex will be closed until May, chef-owner Justin Yu announced. In its place, Yu is turning over his downtown restaurant to chef de cuisine Kaitlin Steets, who will operate a restaurant pop-up in the space. Dubbed
Littlefoot, Steets will serve two, five-course tasting menus: a degustation menu of Texas vegetables, meat, and fish and an all-vegetable menu. The pop-up will begin service February 13 and run through the end of April, at which point Theodore Rex will resume service with Steets back in her role as chef de cuisine.
This Revolutionary Chef Wants to Topple the Table
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Ashleigh Shanti, of Asheville, N.C., is crafting the Afro-lachian food of the future by drawing on Black culinary history.
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Asheville, North Carolina, chef Ashleigh Shanti is crafting the “Afro-lachian” food of the future by drawing on Black culinary history.
As she gains local buzz, she’s eager to take back a toxic kitchen culture, defeat cultural appropriation and revolutionize your plate.
Ashleigh Shanti listens to the music of old souls. Voices like Nina Simone’s might be ringing through her halls while greens and ham hock slowly simmer in a large pot. And this music taste makes sense, because while Shanti is a chef of the future, her food is rooted in the past.