Dominique Crenn Biography
Dominique Crenn is a Frenchman Chef and the only female chef in the United States to have received three Michelin stars for her restaurant, Atelier Crenn, in San Francisco, California.
How old is Dominique Crenn? – Age
She is 57 years old as of 2022. She was born in 1965 in Versailles, France.
Dominique Crenn Family
She was born to Allain Crenn, and Louise Crenn. Crenn, who was born in Locronan, was adopted at the age of 18 months by a French couple from Versailles. She spent many summers on the family farm in Brittany. Her mother, an adventurous cook, took her young daughter to Indian, Chinese, Japanese, and Vietnamese restaurants in Paris. Her politician father would bring his daughter with him when he dined at Michelin-starred restaurants with his friend, a food critic for Le Télégramme.
Dominique Crenn Husband
Crenn proposed to her girlfriend, actress Maria Bello, in December 2019 while holidaying in Paris, France.
Dominique Crenn Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $71 Million.
Who is the father of Dominique Crenn’s twins?
She and her ex-partner Katherine Keon have 6-year-old twins.
How many Restaurants does Dominique Crenn have?
Crenn is the chef patron of three San Francisco restaurants: Atelier Crenn, Petit Crenn, and Bar Crenn. As part of Crenn’s ongoing environmental commitment, all of her restaurants became pescatarian in 2019.
Her flagship restaurant, Atelier Crenn, is named after her late father, politician and painter Alain Crenn. Crenn Senior’s paintings adorn the walls of the restaurant, and the menu is written as a poem from daughter to father, inspired by his art lessons and her childhood on the family farm. The restaurant serves multi-course menus with seasonal dishes made with produce from Crenn’s farm, Bleu Belle Farm, and desserts by Chef Pâtissier, Juan Contreras.
Petit Crenn is a French bistro that serves food inspired by Crenn’s childhood in Brittany. The restaurant serves a chef’s tasting menu, wine pairings, and an à la carte menu, all of which use ingredients from Bleu Belle Farm.
Bar Crenn is a sophisticated Parisian-style wine bar with chandeliers and vintage couches. It serves classical French small plates with organic and biodynamic wine pairings and is located next door to Atelier Crenn.
Dominique Crenn Career
Crenn relocated to the United States to pursue her culinary dreams, eventually settling in San Francisco in the late 1980s. Her first restaurant job was at Stars, a well-known restaurant in town owned by celebrity chef Jeremiah Tower. After two years, she moved on to work at restaurants such as Campton Place, 2223 Market, and Yoyo Bistro at the Miyako Hotel before becoming the head chef at Intercontinental Hotel in Jakarta, Indonesia. She was the country’s first female head chef, but she was forced to flee during civil unrest in 1998.
When she returned to the United States, she worked as executive chef at Manhattan Country Club in Manhattan Beach, Los Angeles, and then at Abode Restaurant and Lounge in Santa Monica, California. In 2008, management at the Intercontinental Hotel offered her a new position, and she joined Luce in San Francisco, where she received her first Michelin star in 2009, and another one the following year.
She opened her restaurant Atelier Crenn in San Francisco, California, in 2011. The Michelin Guide awarded the restaurant two stars, making Crenn the first female chef in the United States to receive two stars. In 2014, Atelier Crenn was awarded two stars once more. In 2016, she was named Best Female Chef by the World’s 50 Best Restaurant Awards. Crenn appeared in Season 2 of Chef’s Table, a Netflix documentary film series. Crenn received her third Michelin star in 2018.
Petit Crenn opened in 2015, inspired by the food of her childhood in Brittany. Crenn announced plans to open Bar Crenn, a wine bar with small plates, next to Atelier Crenn in 2016. Crenn opened in March 2018, earning one Michelin star in its first year. Crenn now has four Michelin stars. Crenn received the James Beard Foundation Award for Best Chef: West in 2018.