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CHEF THIERRY RAUTUREAU - BIO

CHEF THIERRY RAUTUREAU – CENTRAL TALENT This four-part series features award winning Chef Thierry Rautureau of Rover’s and Luc restaurants located in Madison Valley, Seattle. Commonly known as the “Chef in the Hat,” he is a local celebrity and will appear nationally on Bravo’s Top Chef Masters in July 2012 (also previously in 2010). He co-hosts a radio and podcast series with Tom Douglas called “Seattle Kitchen” Saturdays and Sundays on KIRO 97.3 FM, and annually hosts “The Bite Cooks” previously distributed on Comcast On Demand.

Thierry Rautureau hails from the Muscadet region of France. He began his cooking career at fourteen, with a cooking apprenticeship in Anjou, France, and at sixteen went on to train in the cities of Le Mont Saint Michel in Normandy, Chamonix in the French Alps, and Hendaye in the Pays Basque. Rautureau headed for the United States at twenty, and took his professional experience to La Fontaine with Jean Claude Poilevey in Chicago. After three years in Chicago, Rautureau moved to Los Angeles where he worked at the Regency Club with Joachim Splichal, and then The Seventh Street Bistro with Laurent Quenioux. In 1987, he opened Rover’s restaurant in Seattle, and most recently in 2010 he opened Luc, a French-American café and bar.

When describing his cooking philosophy, Rautureau says, “it starts with freshness and continues with treating all ingredients with attention.” Over the twenty-two years Rautureau has owned Rover’s, the restaurant and chef have received local and national press recognition. Articles have appeared in Time Magazine, Gourmet, Food & Wine, Bon Appetit, The Wine Spectator, Food Arts, Vancouver Magazine, Seattle Magazine, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Sunset, USA Today, Seattle Times’ Pacific Magazine, Seattle Post Intelligencer, Fortune, Business Week, and Art Culinaire to name a few. (more Award listings in Appendix 1)

MEDIA APPEARANCES:  Top Chef Masters on Bravo, 2012, and 2010  Seattle Kitchen – radio and podcast series, 2012  Chef judge on “Anna and Kristina’s Grocery Bag,”i W network, Canada (7 million viewers).  Host of “The Bite Cooks” a series filmed for the last several years at the Bite of Seattle, and distributed on Comcast On Demand  For 6 years Chef Thierry and restaurateur Tom Douglas hosted a Seattle radio show called “In the Kitchen with Tom & Thierry” on KIRO news radio  Appeared on 5 episodes of “Ready Set Cook”ii on the Food Network in 2008

CHEF THIERRY RAUTUREAU’S HONORS AND AWARDS

Best Chef in the Pacific Northwest: The James Beard Foundation Awards 1998 Restaurant that stood the test of time: Seattle Magazine 2009 Seattle’s Top Food: Zagat 1993-2009 Best Service in Seattle: Zagat 2002-2009 Outstanding Food and Service: DiRoNa 1997-2007 Distinguished Dining Ambassador “Ella Brennan Award”: DiRoNA 2002 Four Star Award: Forbes Travel Guide: 2010 Four Stars: Mobil Travel Guide 1998-2009 Four Diamond Award: AAA 1998-2010 Best of Award Of Excellence: The Wine Spectator 2003 - 2009 Number One Top Seattle Choice: Gourmet Magazine 1996, 1998, 2000 Restaurant of the Year, Readers’ Choice Award: Seattle Magazine 1998 Top Fine Dining Restaurant in Seattle: The Wine Spectator 1998 Best French Food in Seattle: Food & Wine September 1998 Fine Dining Hall of Fame Award: Nations Restaurant News 1998 Best Overall, Critics’ Choice Award: Seattle Magazine 2000, 2001 Best Overall, Editors’ Choice Award: Where Magazine 2001,2002 Best Restaurant, Chefs’ Choice Award: Where Magazine 2001 Best Seattle Restaurant: Northwest Palate Magazine 2000 Best Overall Dining, Visitors’ Choice: Where Magazine 2002 Best Washington Wine Reserve: Washington Wine Restaurant Awards 2003 - 2008 Best Service, Readers’ Choice Award: Seattle Magazine 1999 Best Restaurant, Chefs’ Choice Award: Where Magazine 2004 Best Overall Dining, Visitors’ Choice: Where Magazine 2004 Best Service: Washington Wine Restaurant Awards 2004 Best Restaurant in Seattle: Citysearch 2002 Seattle Top Ten Best: Seattle Magazine 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009 Best Romantic Restaurant: AOL City Guide 2005 Best All-Around Restaurant: AOL City Guide 2005 Chef Thierry’s Induction Into: Les Maitres Cuisiniers de France 1998 Chevalier (Knight) de l’Ordre Du Merite Agricole: The French Government 2004