Bon Appétit Management Company

Bon Appétit Executive Chef Chris Lenza and the Café Allegro team are known for their commitment to showcasing Arizona ingredients and indigenous foodways. But for this year’s Eat Local Challenge, attended by some very special guests, they outdid themselves.

CEO Fedele Bauccio and the rest of the local team were extremely excited to host a private Warriors trophy viewing party at Foundry & Lux, Bon Appétit’s public restaurant in South San Francisco, CA.

Executive Chef Darryl Bell led a special cooking demo at Foundry & Lux, taking guests on a tour of the labyrinth garden, from which they harvested ingredients to cook and later enjoy together.

The Bon Appétit Huntington Hospitality team hosted an informative event at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens that was equal parts movie screening, discussion panel, and sustainability soirée.

The Bon Appétit team at the Art Institute of Chicago creates a new menu to complement the museum’s current exhibitions

Executive Chef Rogelio Garcia talks about his experience on Season 15 of Top Chef and invites his new friends — some of the country’s hottest chefs — to show off their creativity in The Commissary’s monthly Open Kitchen series

Two special menus came to the Restaurant at the Getty in Los Angeles this spring, including one to accompany the exhibition “A Queen’s Treasure from Versailles: Marie-Antoinette’s Japanese Lacquer” and another for Valentine’s Day.

The special “experience weekend” at the Musical Instrument Museum (MIM) in Phoenix offered focused on the “Science of Cooking” and incorporated a live, rapid-freeze ice cream demo.

Once per year, General Manager Adrian Burciaga invites an international guest chef to share the kitchen with the Bon Appétit team, cooking a multicourse meal to pair with the evening’s themed wines. This year, Adrian partnered with renowned chef and Top Chef Mexico judge Aquiles Chávez.

Rogelio Garcia, Bon Appétit’s executive chef at The Commissary in San Francisco’s Presidio, was invited to cook a collaborative Día de los Muertos dinner with chefs from all over the country at the James Beard House — it was his second time to cook at the famed house!