Michael Mina (born 1969 in Cairo, Egypt) is an award-winning American celebrity chef, restaurateur, and cookbook author. He is the executive chef at his namesake restaurant in San Francisco, California, and partners with Andre Agassi in Mina Group LLC, a restaurant management company that owns 17 restaurants across the United States and Mexico. He authored his first cookbook in 2006 and has made numerous television appearances. Mina has three Mic...
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Michael Mina (born 1969 in Cairo, Egypt) is an award-winning American celebrity chef, restaurateur, and cookbook author. He is the executive chef at his namesake restaurant in San Francisco, California, and partners with Andre Agassi in Mina Group LLC, a restaurant management company that owns 17 restaurants across the United States and Mexico. He authored his first cookbook in 2006 and has made numerous television appearances. Mina has three Michelin stars among his two namesake restaurants in San Francisco, California and Las Vegas, Nevada.
Egyptian-born Michael Mina was raised in Ellensburg, Washington. He started working in a French kitchen in his hometown when he was 16. After high school, Mina attended the University of Washington and worked in the restaurant at the Space Needle, where he received his first exposure to working in a busy restaurant. He left after one year to attend Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York.
After working in Los Angeles at the Bel Air...
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