Tiffani Faison Biography
Tiffani Faison is a celebrity chef and restaurateur from the United States who has served as a judge on Food Network’s Chopped. She is also a four-time James Beard Award Finalist for Best Chef: Northeast.
How old is Tiffani Faison? – Age
She is 45 years old as of 20 August 2022. She was born in 1977 in Bremerhaven, Bremen, Germany.
Tiffani Faison Family – Education
She was born in the United States to American parents, and her father served in the United States military. Her family relocated several times during her childhood, eventually settling in Santa Rosa, California, by the time she was in high school.
Who did Tiffani Faison marry? – Partner
Faison used to identify as bisexual, but she is now a lesbian. Faison began visiting San Francisco and helping HIV/AIDS organizations.
Tiffani Faison Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $5 Million.
Tiffani Faison Weight Loss
Tiffani’s extraordinary weight loss was achieved by a combination of diet and activity. She shed significant weight quickly by changing her eating habits to include healthier alternatives and replacing what many would consider “junk food” with better ones.
Tiffani Faison Restaurateur
Faison is the owner and chief chef of Sweet Cheeks Q, a Texas-style barbecue restaurant in Boston’s Fenway neighborhood. Sweet Cheeks Q, her first restaurant, opened in late 2011. Local and national media have called Sweet Cheeks Q Boston’s Best Barbecue, and Forbes noted that its “biscuits were the best in the world.”
She established her popular Southeast Asian restaurant, Tiger Mama, in Fenway in December 2015. Faison will close Tiger Mama in late October 2021 to focus on a new restaurant in the same site in Fenway (due in late 2022). Tenderoni’s is set to open in November 2022.
Fool’s Errand, a “Adult Snack Bar,” launched in February 2018 as Faison’s third Fenway restaurant. Orfano, her Italian-American restaurant, launched in August 2019 and received a three-star rating from The Boston Globe. It was later permanently closed in June 2022. Faison opened Tenderoni’s, Dive Bar, and Bubble Bath in 2022 as part of High Street Place, a new food hall in Downtown Boston.
Tiffani Faison Career
When she finished in second place on the first season of Top Chef, Faison became famous for her cooking. She then competed in a cooking competition with just one episode called 4 Star All Stars. In this competition, four contestants from the first season of Top Chef—Stephen Asprinio, Dieterle, David Martin, and Faison—were pitted against four contestants from the second season—Elia Aboumrad, Ilan Hall, Sam Talbot, and Marcel Vigneron. The winning menu was awarded to Faison’s team, who also received a donation of $20,000 to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure charity. On June 6, 2007, this episode aired on Bravo.
Faison also won the $20,000 prize in the Top Chef Holiday Special that aired on December 7, 2007. In the sixth episode of Top Chef’s eighth season, Faison was eliminated from the competition. In the 2014 edition of Top Chef Duels, Faison came in second place. Faison is a judge on Chopped as of 2020 and served as the judge to beat on one of the episodes of Beat the Judge. She also made it to the Chopped finals: Grudge Match, where Marcus Samuelsson came in second place.
Faison competed in Food Network’s Tournament of Champions in 2021, and he returned in 2022 to win Season 3 of the competition and serve as a judge on Chopped: The Royal Casino. Tiffani Faison defeated Brooke Williamson in the final to win Tournament of Champions 3. Additionally, Faison has appeared as a culinary guest on national television programs like NBC TODAY and CBS: America’s Test Kitchen as well as This Morning.