Traci Des Jardins

Traci Des Jardins has been a part of the San Francisco food community for over 35 years and operated a diverse group of successful, award-winning restaurants until the end of 2019. Des Jardins is a two-time James Beard award-winner and has earned numerous industry accolades throughout her career including Food and Wine Magazine’s Best New Chefs.

She has been instrumental in supporting many industry philanthropic efforts such as World Central Kitchen, Share our Strength, The Jacques Pepin Foundation and local organizations such as La Cocina. She currently works on food and flavor development at Kitchentown based in the South Bay where she works with a dynamic team helping food companies develop direct to consumer and B2B products which keeps her close to the heart of the Bay Area food scene.