Adrianne Calvo

Since 2007, Adrianne Calvo has taken the food scene by storm, firmly establishing herself as a celebrity chef, author, television personality, philanthropist, and restaurateur. To date, she has produced five cookbooks: Maximum Flavor (2005), Chef Adrianne: Driven by Flavor, Fueled by Fire (2008), #MaximumFlavorSocial (2014), Play With Fire (2015), and The A-List, a two-volume work released last year. Her restaurant, the award-winning Chef Adrianne's Vineyard Restaurant and Wine Bar, has dazzled patrons with its boldly creative menu and its extraordinary "Dark Dining" event, in which guests get to experience a heightened sense of taste by being blindfolded during a multicourse dinner. Among the restaurant's other accolades are being named one of the U.S.'s 15 most unique restaurants by Zagat , being selected as one of the 17 most important restaurants in Miami by Thrillist, being named in the Miami Food Bucket List, also by Thrillist, and winning best chef (2014,2016, 2018) and best restaurant (2014, 2017) in Miami by the Reader's Choice Awards. Chef Adrianne entered the celebrity food world at a young age, but age was not a factor in pushing her efforts. She became the youngest person to cook for the United Nations and its ambassadors, while also displaying her expertise for CNN correspondents, competing in Food Network's Chopped and Beat Bobby Flay, and being featured in top food publications like Gourmet, Bon Appetite, and Saveur. Additionally, Adrianne has drawn the interest of large corporate entities in several dierent fields, as she currently endorses Reebok and Sprint, to name a few. She maintains a regular position as NBC's "6 in the Mix" chef expert over 12 years. Never shying away from giving back, Chef Adrianne has been cooking for families and patients at St. Jude's Childrens Research Hospital as part of her Make It Count foundation since 2007. If recent success is any indicator as to where Chef Adrianne's career is heading, things are certainly looking up. In 2018, she was once again named Miami's Best Chef by the New Times, and was awarded the Best Bite of the Beach during the South Beach Wine & Food Festival. Her signature Maximum Flavor style has delighted her fans for over 13 years and according to her, its only the beginning.