Reed Hearon

Reed Hearon
Born	1957 (age 67–68) Austin, Texas, U.S.
Education	University of Chicago, University of Texas at Austin
Culinary career
Cooking style	French, regional Mexican, Ligurian cuisines
Previous restaurant(s) * Rose Pistola, San Francisco, California (1996–2017), * LuLu, San Francisco, California (1993–1996) [1] * Cafe Marimba, San Francisco, California (1993–2002)
Award(s) won * Best New Chef, Food & Wine (1994) *Chef of The Year, San Francisco Focus Magazine (1996)

Reed Hearon (born 1957) is an American chef, cookbook author, businessperson, and restauranteur. ^{[1] [2] [3]} During the 1990s dot-com bubble, he opened many notable restaurants in San Francisco, California, including LuLu, ^{[4] [5]} Rose Pistola, ^{[6] [7]} Rose's Cafe, ^[8] Cafe Marimba, ^[9] and the Black Cat. ^[2] Hearon is known for his work with French, regional Mexican, and Ligurian cuisines. ^[10]

Since 1993, Hearon co-founded a restaurant investment firm called Nice Ventures; as well as in 2001, he founded Hearon Designs, a consultancy for the food industry; and in 2011, founded a wine-focused software company called Purevin. ^[11]

Biography

Reed Hearon was born in 1957, in Austin, Texas. ^[12] He attended college at the University of Chicago, and the University of Texas at Austin, and studied mathematics and philosophy. ^[12]

In his early career, Hearon worked at The Avenue restaurant in Austin, the Rattlesnake Club in Denver, and worked as a sous–chef at Mark Miller's Coyote Café in Santa Fe. ^{[12] [13] [14]} In 1988, he moved to the West Coast, in order to take over the existing Corona Bar and Grill in San Francisco, California. ^[12]

Hearon appeared on the series, Julia Child: Lessons with Master Chefs, season 1. ^[2]

Awards and honors

Julia Child named Hearon as one of the 30 most promising young chefs in the United States in 1987. ^{[12] [15]} In 1994, Hearon was awarded "Best New Chef" at Food & Wine magazine. ^[16]

His former restaurant Rose Pistola was awarded the James Beard Foundation Award for "Best New Restaurant" in 1997. ^[17] In 2016, the San Francisco Chronicle voted LuLu as one of the most important restaurants of the San Francisco Bay Area, for their usage of new trends including the beginning of using communal table, serving family-style dishes, for being located in SoMa neighborhood (which was once a desolate area), and their use of a wood oven in the center of the dining room. ^[4]

List of former restaurants

• LuLu Petite (2004–2010), Ferry Building, 1 Embarcadero, San Francisco, California, U.S. ^{[18] [19]}
• Black Cat (1998–), 501 Broadway Street, San Francisco, California, U.S. ^[10]
• Zibibbo (1997–2014), 430 Kipling Street, Palo Alto, California, U.S. ^{[20] [21] [22]}
• LuLu Petite (1996–2014), 430 Kipling Street, Palo Alto, California, U.S.^{[ citation needed ]}
• Rose's Cafe (1997–), 2298 Union Street, San Francisco, California, U.S. ^{[8] [23] [24]}
• Rose Pistola (1996–2017), 532 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, California, U.S.
• LuLu (1993–1996), 816 Folsom Street, San Francisco, California, U.S. ^{[25] [26] [27] [28]}
• Cafe Marimba (2001–), 908 Fourth Street, San Rafael, California, U.S. ^[29]
• Cafe Marimba (1993–2001, left in 1999), 2317 Chestnut Street, San Francisco, California, U.S. ^[30]
• Corona Bar and Grill (1988–), 88 Cyril Magnin, San Francisco, California, U.S. ^[31]
• Coyote Café (1987–1988), 132 W. Water Street, Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S. (working under chef Mark Miller) ^{[13] [14]}

Publications

• Hearon, Reed; Capucilli, Karen (April 1, 1993). Salsa. San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books. ISBN   978-0811803281.
• Hearon, Reed; Smith, Larry L. (January 1, 1996). LA Parilla: The Mexican Grill. San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books. ISBN   978-0811810340. ^[32]
• Hearon, Reed (January 1, 1997). Bocaditos: The Little Dishes of Mexico. Laurie Smith (photographer). San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books. ISBN   978-0811810098.
• Hearon, Reed; Knickerbocker, Peggy (October 19, 1999). The Rose Pistola Cookbook: 140 Italian Recipes from San Francisco's Favorite North Beach Restaurant. Broadway. ISBN   978-0767902502. ^{[33] [34]}

See also

• California portal

• Michael Mina, restaurateur and chef in San Francisco
• Judy Rodgers, chef and cookbook author in San Francisco
• Jeremiah Tower, celebrity chef in San Francisco
• Cass Calder Smith, former interior architect for LuLu's in San Francisco

References

1. "Reed Hearon And LuLu Part Ways". SFGate . September 11, 1996. ISSN   1932-8672.
2. "Whatever Happened to … Reed Hearon?". SFWeekly . 2009-01-30. OCLC   724024787 . Retrieved 2024-09-22.
3. Liddle, Alan (December 14, 1998). "SF chef Hearon beats Australian rivals, wins". Nation's Restaurant News, Vol. 32, No. 50. ProQuest   229317497 . Retrieved 2024-09-22.
4. Bauer, Michael (September 2016). "30 years of the Bay Area's most important restaurants". The San Francisco Chronicle . Retrieved 2024-09-22.
5. "LuLu's robust dishes never go out of fashion". San Francisco Examiner . 2010-02-12. ISSN   2574-593X . Retrieved 2024-09-22.
6. "A Taste of San Francisco; Culinary Lights: North Beach Shines Again". The New York Times . October 7, 1998. Archived from the original on May 27, 2015.
7. Gutekunst, George (December 1999). "A Mini-Farm in San Francisco". Fine Gardening (magazine). No. 24. Archived from the original on August 11, 2020.
8. Unterman, Patricia (June 6, 1997). "The bloom's on the Rose's Cafe". SFGate . ISSN   1932-8672.
9. Unterman, Patricia (September 11, 1998). "Regional Mexican sings at Cafe Marimba". SFGate .
10. Bauer, Michael (April 1, 2001). "Hearon Gives New Life to Black Cat / In restaurant's latest version, diners can feel as if they're in Paris". SFGate.
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13. "A Grand Finale". Texas Monthly . May 1989. ISSN   0148-7736 . Retrieved September 22, 2024.
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15. "Sample Italian seafood, San Francisco-style". Honolulu Star-Bulletin . March 24, 1999. Retrieved 2024-09-22.
16. "Every Food & Wine Best New Chef Ever, Since 1988". Food & Wine. September 12, 2023.
17. Staggs, Bill (1996-06-05). "At the Nation's Table: San Francisco; North Beach Spirit At Rose Pistola". The New York Times . ISSN   0362-4331. Archived from the original on 2015-05-26.
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21. Kadvany, Elena (2014-04-09). "Zibibbo restaurant shutters after 17 years in downtown Palo Alto". Palo Alto Online. Retrieved 2024-09-23.
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24. Unterman, Patricia (December 19, 1997). "For S.F. diners, '97 was a very good year". SFGate .
25. Unterman, Patricia (April 23, 1999). "Hip brasserie LuLu back on course". SFGate . ISSN   1932-8672.
26. Fritsche, Sarah (February 6, 2019). "The former Lulu space is becoming a temporary high concept restaurant/art gallery". San Francisco Chronicle .
27. Pershan, Caleb (2017-01-03). "LuLu Closes Suddenly After 24 Years: SFist". SFist . Retrieved 2024-09-22.
28. Garrett, Rose (January 3, 2017). "Restaurant LuLu Shutters After 24 Years". Hoodline.
29. Bauer, Michael (October 27, 2002). "Two too much for Marimba / With opening of San Rafael restaurant, S.F. cafe loses some of its luster". SFGate .
30. Bauer, Michael (February 7, 1999). "The Bay Area's Top 100 Restaurants / C–F". SFGate .
31. Bishop, Katherine (March 12, 1989). "What's Doing in San Francisco". The New York Times . p. 10.
32. "La Parilla: The Mexican Grill by Reed Hearon". Publishers Weekly (review). June 3, 1996. ISSN   0000-0019 . Retrieved 2024-09-22.
33. "The Rose Pistola Cookbook: 140 Italian Recipes from San Francisco's Favorite North Beach Restaurant by Reed Hearon". Publishers Weekly (review). October 4, 1999. ISSN   0000-0019 . Retrieved 2024-09-22.
34. Chastenet dé Gery, Rebecca (March 24, 2000). "The Rose Pistola Cookbook: 140 Italian Recipes From San Francisco's Favorite North Beach Restaurant". Austin Chronicle (review). Retrieved 2024-09-22.