When Preeti walks into a room,

you just turn and say, ‘Who’s that?'

-Ava DuVernay

Harper's Bazaar

September 2020

Photo by Shaniqwa Jarvis &

Sarah Deragon

About

ABOUT

Photo by Alanna Hale.

Twice nominated by the

James Beard Foundation as

Best Chef of the West 2017 & 2018.

Chef of Oakland's late lamented

Juhu Beach Club & Navi Kitchen and

co-author of The Juhu Beach Club Cookbook.

I was born in London and raised in the US. I've run the kitchens at the deYoung Museum in San Francisco and Google HQ in Mountain View, CA. I was a contestant on Top Chef Season 6 and am honored to have been featured in numerous publications including Food & Wine Magazine, NY Times, Time Magazine, Bon Appetit, SF Chronicle, Wall Street Journal, Vogue India, Eater in addition to the late, great Anthony Bourdain’s PARTS UNKNOWN on CNN.