Chef Michele Tompkins

The Roots & Culture brand was created in 2022 by Chef Michele K. Tompkins after years of working as a private chef under her independent brand urban foodie cafe which ultimately gave birth to becoming chef & owner of urban foodie cafe which ultimately gave birth to urban foodie feed store, an upscale white tablecloth restaurant that served southern modern cuisine with a twist in College Park, Ga. Roots & Culture is a boutique personal chef company with a strong focus on re-imagined southern cuisine with global influences. Chef Michele’s bohemian style approach to food combined with her foodie travel experiences and Caribbean background help transform her into the urban foodie she is today. Her passion and ability to transpose common foods into eclectic cool combinations was inherited naturally. Chefs and great cooks run in Michele’s family including a great grandfather who was a chef at the famous Waldorf Astoria hotel in the 1930s.

Michele’s professional career began in marketing & promotion at FOX5 Atlanta and the nationally syndicated court show “JUDGE MATHIS” in Chicago. Taking a leap of faith, she made the decision to pursue her true passion in the world of food and hospitality. Roots & Culture Craft Kitchen exemplifies chef Michele’s underlying culinary style and affection for her life long love affair and fascination with the roots and cultural aspects of food and people around the world. Her food simply put is a “FIBE” - cool, eclectic people + good food & great conversation.