Chef's PSA Podcast
by André Natera | Chef's PSA Media
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The no-nonsense chef podcast for culinary leaders. Chef's PSA with André Natera gives cooks direct insight into kitchen management and what separates the pros from the rest. Featuring conversations with James Beard Award winners, Top Chef champions, and Bocuse d'Or competitors, we reveal the Michelin standards and discipline required to build a serious career. Weekly mentorship for BOH pros who want to GET CHEF BRAINS.
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- YOUR STEAK MENU IS BORING | Jess Pryles Ep. 227 · 54 min · Episode 227Jess Pryles returns with more meat science. She is a live fire cook, the founder of Hardcore Carnivore, and the author of Prime Cuts, a 288 page guide to choosing, understanding…
- Michelin Star in Under Two Months: Chef Christophe De Lellis Ep. 226 · 1 h 3 min · Episode 226Christophe De Lellis is chef and partner at Mamani in Dallas, a French restaurant with an Italian accent that earned a Michelin star in 2025, less than two months after opening…
- Why Chefs Keep Paying for Buildings They'll Never Own? Sarah McIntosh Ep. 225 · 1 h 26 min · Episode 225Paid partnership with Toast. This episode ends with a sponsored bonus segment on menu pricing, built on data from Toast's Menu Price Monitor and their free Menu Checker tool…
- They Said His Restaurant Would Fail. 21 Years Later, He’s Still Here. Abraham Salum Ep. 224 · 1 h 2 min · Episode 224Abraham Salum has one rule he wishes every restaurant would adopt. A friend of his makes everyone pile their phones in the middle of the table before dinner starts. First person…
- Nick Walker, Are Your Line Cooks Still Loyal To You? Ep. 223 · 1 h 3 min · Episode 223Nick Walker is an FSR 40 Under 40 chef who oversaw the James Beard nominated Meridian and now leads 11 Whiskey Cake locations across Texas and Florida. He started in a kitchen at…
- Tim Laielli, 1.4 Million Followers, and Next Level Chef. Does He Call Himself a Chef? Ep. 222 · 1 h 2 min · Episode 222Tim Laielli will not call himself a chef. He is clear about it every time someone assumes otherwise, including his own father, who is one. Eighteen months after posting his first…
- Matt Lambert: The Church of Michelin, the Modern Tasting Menu, and What's Actually Worth It Ep. 221 · 1 h 6 min · Episode 221Matt Lambert earned a Michelin star at The Musket Room in New York in four months, a goal he'd given himself three years to hit. He describes what followed as treating the star…
- What Working for Jean-Georges Actually Taught Him About Running a Kitchen Bryan Caswell Ep. 220 · 1 h 13 min · Episode 220Bryan Caswell has cooked inside three very different kinds of rooms. Jean-Georges Vongerichten's kitchen in the early 2000s, where he learned that a quiet, organized kitchen…
- The First Latina to Beat Bobby Flay Breaks Down Her Real Numbers Ep. 219 · 1 h 1 min · Episode 219Rosana Rivera runs three businesses under one roof: a bakery storefront, a wholesale bread program, and a catering and events company called Gatheria Studio. Most operators would…
- Eduardo Osorio on Moving From LA to Dallas and Becoming the City's Hottest New Chef Ep. 218 · 1 h 6 min · Episode 218Eduardo Osorio moved to Dallas from LA less than a year ago. Then Kent Rathbun, Dallas royalty, ate at Meridian and posted about it, and the walk-ins started within days. It's…
- Why San Antonio Is Texas's Most Underrated Food City With Enrique Lozano Ep. 217 · 1 h 3 min · Episode 217Enrique Lozano is a Chopped champion, James Beard nominee for Best Chef Texas, and executive chef at Aguazul in San Antonio, with roots at Benny Frank's in El Paso and Mija…
- He Is The Third Generation To Run One Of NYC's Oldest Italian Restaurants Matthew Cutolo Ep. 216 · 1 h 3 min · Episode 216Matthew Cutolo is a third-generation chef at Gargiulo's, the Coney Island restaurant his family has run since 1965 and that has fed Brooklyn since 1907. In 1977, The New York…
- The Century Where Food Stopped Being About Food | Bobby Hicks Ep. 215 · 1 h 12 min · Episode 215Bobby Hicks read roughly 800 mid-century cookbooks to write one, and what he found was not a list of bad recipes. It was the exact point where American home cooking lost its…
- Toby Archibald The Chef Who Traveled the World to Build One Perfect Restaurant in Dallas Ep. 214 · 1 h 20 min · Episode 214Chef Toby Archibald is the New Zealand-born chef and owner of Quarter Acre, a Michelin Guide restaurant on Lower Greenville in Dallas. Texas Monthly named it one of the Best New…
- The Food Is a Bonus. Hospitality Is the Point. Chef Geno McWilliams Ep. 213 · 1 h 4 min · Episode 213Geno McWilliams is the self-taught chef and owner of Lucia's Italian Kitchen in Effingham, Illinois, a 39-seat open kitchen Italian restaurant three hours south of Chicago that…
- Matt McCallister on Getting Sober, Losing His Restaurant, and Why He Is Going Back Ep. 212 · 1 h 1 min · Episode 212Chef Matt McCallister is the Food and Wine Best New Chef 2014, three-time James Beard Award finalist, and one of a handful of chefs to ever receive a five-star review from the…
- Lady Line Cook Finally on Chef's PSA Ep. 211 · 1 h 13 min · Episode 211Hanalei Souza is the sous chef, author, and content creator behind @ladylinecook, one of the most recognized culinary humor and leadership voices on Instagram with 88,000…
- RJ Yoakum on Imposter Syndrome, Meat Cookery, and What Nobody Tells You Ep. 210 · 1 h 14 min · Episode 210Chef RJ Yoakum is the chef de cuisine at Michelin-recommended Sushi Kozy in Dallas, a kaiseki-inspired omakase restaurant from chef-owner Paul Ko. A 2025 James Beard Award…
- Todd Duplechan and Jessica Maher on What Makes a Great Cook Ep. 209 · 1 h 11 min · Episode 209Todd Duplechan and Jessica Maher are the husband-and-wife chef-owners of Lenoir, a MICHELIN Guide restaurant in Austin's Bouldin Creek neighborhood open since 2012. They also…
- Three-Time James Beard Finalist on Building a Hospitality Empire Ep. 208 · 1 h 26 min · Episode 208Chef Brian Lewis is the founder and CEO of Full House Hospitality Group and a three-time James Beard Award finalist for Best Chef Northeast, with nominations in 2018, 2022, and…
