Ken Frank

Since becoming a chef in the mid-1970s, Ken Frank has earned a stellar reputation for his personalized style of cooking, grounded in the French cuisine he grew to know and love while living in France as a teenager.

Frank first achieved national acclaim when he was Chef of La Guillotine Restaurant at age 21 in 1977. He was a pioneer, insisting on using only the freshest, seasonal, quality ingredients. He opened the first La Toque on the Sunset Strip in 1979 at age 23. In 1998 he finally heeded the call of the wine country and moved La Toque to Rutherford in the Napa Valley. In the fall of 2008 Frank moved his signature restaurant to the Westin Verasa Napa, where it is a showcase for Chef Frank’s modern French cuisine and his passion for fine wine.