Dominique Crenn is the chef and owner of the three-Michelin-starred restaurant Atelier Crenn. Driven by her passion to create a deeply personal project, Crenn opened the restaurant as a place to express her heritage and as an ode to “poetic culinaria.” Atelier Crenn achieved its first Michelin Star within a year, in October of 2011. The following year, Crenn made history again when Atelier Crenn received its second Michelin Star, becoming the first female chef in the US to receive this honor. In November 2018, Crenn beat her own record and became the first female chef in the US to receive three Michelin Stars.
As Chef Pâtissier at Atelier Crenn, Juan Contreras’ dishes insinuate appearances and are meant to trigger memories, evoke emotions, and stimulate senses as they embody the restaurant’s mission: to encourage guests to engage in culinary dialogues. His philosophy and inspiration comes from respecting the past, searching for those small intricacies within nature, and highlighting landscapes, flowers, and aromas, all of which have the power to galvanize and convey language.
