Chef Jon Sears
Private Chef in Burlingame
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A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe
- Thomas Keller
Chef Jon Sears has over 30 years of culinary and hospitality development. His experience includes: Chef/Owner, The Dining Room Restaurant, Epicurean Events, Culinary Instructor-Draeger's Cooking School, Private Chef and Restaurant Consultant.
He has been hired for menu concept design, kitchen and service staff recruitment, drafting training manuals and as a dining room ambience advisor.
Since the days of his critically acclaimed restaurant, The Dining Room, Chef Sears wide range of global cuisine has been influenced by tropical and seasonal ingredients that are constantly evolving.
Producing more than 5,000 dinners and events, he enjoys most working closely with his clients and guests. Helping to design their menus, manage kitchen and service teams, and assisting them in overseeing the entire production of the dining experience.
Jon's family background is from Oahu, Hawaiʻi. His cuisine is classic French technique, mixed with tropical and seasonal ingredients from around the world - with a modernist approach. Chef Sears is a private chef, restaurant consultant and event director.
More about me
For me, cooking is...
the thing that connects us all.
I learned to cook at...
Chef Gary Danko, 231 Ellsworth and countless hours of research and study on global cuisine and culinary history.
A cooking secret...
Listen to the ingredients.







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