David Guas Biography
David Guas is a New Orleans-based chef, TV personality, restaurant, and cookbook author. Guas was a two-time finalist for Food & Wine Magazine’s People’s Choice Award for Best New Chef in the United States.
How old is David Guas? – Age
He is 48 years old as of June 5, 2023. He was born in 1975 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
David Guas Wife
Guas lives in Northern Virginia with his wife, Public Relations expert Simone Rathlé, and their two sons, Spencer and Kemp. He enjoys hunting, fishing, and riding his motorcycle. He rides a Harley-Davidson motorcycle.
David Guas Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $5 Million.
David Guas Restaurants
He is the proprietor of Arlington, Virginia’s Bayou Bakery, Coffee Bar & Eatery, which launched in 2010. Guas has received national acclaim for highlighting the soul of the South in his sinfully delectable Louisiana-style classics and signature desserts in publications such as Food & Wine, Southern Living, Garden & Gun, Saveur, and Bon Appétit. The eatery received the Arlington Best Business Award for Retail Small Business of the Year in 2019. Guas was selected Chef of the Year by the Wild American Shrimp Processors Association in 2019.
Guas built a second Bayou bakery, Coffee Bar & Eatery in Capitol Hill in 2014, utilizing the historic carriage house that housed President Abraham Lincoln’s horse-drawn ambulance and medic team the year before his death. The American Institute of Architects in Washington, DC awarded the restorations the 2015 Award of Excellence in Historic Resources. Chef Guas terminated the lease two years after it was signed. Guas opened Lil’ B within The Darcy Hotel in Washington, DC in 2017. The Darcy Hotel was sold in December 2018, with the contract expiring in early 2019.
David Guas Cookbooks
In 2007, he left his ten-year career as a corporate pastry chef for an entrepreneurial path, working in private consulting, boutique catering, and cookbook authorship, and opening his New Orleans-style cafe, Bayou Bakery Coffee Bar & cafe, in November 2010. DamGoodSweet – Desserts to Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth New Orleans Style (Taunton Press, 2009) was named one of Food & Wine’s “Best New Dessert Cookbooks”; and was a finalist for both the James Beard Award in the Baking and Dessert Cookbook category and the International Association of Culinary Professionals Cookbook Award in the American Category.