Evening photoshoot with Chefs Wolfgang Puck, David Chang & Roy Choi
A few weeks ago we embarked on another photo shoot adventure with Chef Wolfgang Puck at his signature restaurant in Hotel Bel Air. We felt jazzed to be invited back again to document another special evening with Chef Wolfgang Puck and his guest chefs. The food that comes out of the kitchen is incredibly executed and thought out. It’s so hard to not sneak a bite of all the dishes, but we have work to do. We reserve all our eating and drinking for later.
Have any of you met Chef Puck? He’s is such a cool guy, always making sure everyone is taken care of around him and our last photo shoot venture with him was his private dinner with Chef Alain Ducasse. Two masters in the same kitchen? Yes, we were there to witness it all and here’s the post. What an honor that was.
This time we were asked to shoot the evening again with not only Chef Puck, but also chefs David Chang and Roy Choi.
David Chang? If you know of New York City’s Momofuku fame, then you’ve heard of him.
Roy Choi? He’s one of the well respected food kings of Los Angeles and the Kogi king.
All three are immensely creative and talented in their fields. Each has made an unforgettable impact and contribution to the food world. And most important of all, they’re all super nice people, in and out of the kitchen.
How did the evening go? Well, the sold out dinner event with the three was incredible to witness. Each Chef and their team contributed two or three dishes to the set menu. The attention to detail, the service, the food and the teamwork from the back of the house to the front of the house was impeccable.
Chef Roy Choi and his Santa Barbara Spot Prawn with sea urchin, salmon roe, fried garlic
Chef David Chang and his spicy pork sausage with rice cakes with Chinese broccoli
Chef Wolfgang Puck’s Japanese blue fin “toro” tuna samshimi with Santa Rosa plum & citrus ponzu
It was incredible to witness the bustling flow of the kitchen with all three Chefs and each of their teams.
Regardless of how intense the evening was, the Chefs still managed to have fun
A surprise participant in the kitchen as actor Jon Favreau (bottom of collage w/ bandana) who was shadowing Chef Roy Choi to study for a chef role for an upcoming movie.
As the intimate evening progressed, the sold out event was filled to capacity with excited and hungry guests.
The whole team at Hotel Bel Air worked so hard to host this incredible evening.
The trio of talent from New York City to Los Angeles.
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Gorgeous Tantilizing Photo’s. Great Combo of Chef’s Indeed!! My Favorite Chef’s and Flavors. You Rock The Casbah “White On Rice” !! Keep Bringing Us to that Beautiful Place In the Kitchen. Best Regards..
The great trio transmitted as enjoy their work!!!!
Beautiful photos!!!
Beautiful. Simply, beautiful! What an honor to be able to follow these three amazing chefs around for an evening! You are truly talented.
Thank you so much for sharing a fantastic night you both had! Your images brought us right into the heart of showing these amazing geniuses in action! Wonderful story from beginning to end…Congratulations!
Your photography captures their essence and passion for their job. The smiles are perfectly framed in the kitchen setting making it almost a sin to take them out of this profession. Stunning food matched by great pictures. Love this, it sounds like you had a great ime
A trio of talent in the kitchen! It looked like an amazing evening, and you captured it so beautifully. I could almost taste it!
You guys are incredible…you have so much on your plate and yet, you still make time to blog. Thank you for sharing the stories and the beautiful photos and videos. Congratulations!
You guys did a fantastic job on this event. I’m sure your hearts were racing but you pulled it off and we all get to enjoy the wonderful photos. Thank you. They are terrific.
OMG talk about what a dream come true! These chefs are some of my faves!!! These pics are BEYOND gorgeous!
Talk about dream team! You two are such pros – if I had even had the opportunity to step in that kitchen, I would’ve stuck myself in a corner just staring all googly-eyed at the talent in front of me [Diane, you + Todd included!]. What an opportunity captured for posterity with such classic beauty.
Wow, this is incredible. How fun and your photos are stunning!! What a fun night!
Looks like quite the night!!!
How did two Korean dudes become so famous in the kitchen – a room in the house where no males were ALLOWED to enter, traditionally? My grandmother used to yell at me for being a “bad” wife, anytime my hubby got up to get his own bowl of rice.
If I remember, David Chang’s father forbade him to go into a restaurant business because HE was in the business. So glad he didn’t listen to his father – like all rebellious young men – and went on to become one of the best modern day chefs all around. And who would have thought, eating in the streets – a common scene in markets in Korea – would become trendy and make Roy a LA’s best food truck chef.
Great to see their smiling faces too. I don’t have to tell you about your beautiful photography, of course, but great to see the three masters in one place.
Karen- thanks for all the back story and history, it’s all so interesting. It’s also a fact that Koreans have so much talent in the kitchen! 🙂
Nice. I like the photographs while he is working and interacting with people in the kitchen. Specially the plates on. Good work.
The photos are gorgeous. I love how you captured smiles and joy. Not just stress and pressure (which if you watch reality cooking shows, the chefs always seem to look so…stressed. And I’m sure they are) – but seeing their joy and pride in their work and being happy is lovely to capture and you did it beautifully. CONGRATS!