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America's Best New Chefs
2000

Joseph Wrede

Joseph’s Table
108A South Taos Plaza
Taos, New Mexico
505-751-4512

Old Blinking Light Denver
9344 Dorchester St.
Highlands Ranch, Colorado
303-346-9797

Old Blinking Light Taos
Mile Marker 1, Ski Valley Road
Taos, New Mexico
505-776-8787

Joe’s Mainstreet Bakery & Cafe
Guadalupe Plaza
Taos, New Mexico
505-758-9610

1 Recipe by Joseph Wrede

Where are they now?

While Joseph Wrede is still executive chef at Joseph's Table, in 2003 the restaurant moved to the Hotel La Fonda on the Taos Plaza. In 2005 Wrede bought the Main Street Bakery in Taos; he spent a year revamping it and renamed it Joe's Mainstreet Bakery & Cafe. He is also the consultant chef for the Old Blinking Light restaurants in Taos and Denver, which specialize in New Mexican cuisine.

Won Best New Chef at: Joseph's Table, Taos, NM


2000 Best New Chef Award Profile
Restaurant at the time of award
Joseph’s Table
4167 Paseo del Pueblo Sur
Taos, New Mexico
505-751-4512

Why Because he uses local organic foods in surprising, sensual ways.

Born Phoenix, AZ,1966.

Education Peter Kump's New York Cooking School in Manhattan.

Experience Highlands Garden Cafe and Aubergine Cafe in Denver.

Early food memory Snails and 7-Up at The Maisonette in Cincinnati, age 6.

Why he wanted to be a chef "There were a lot of restaurants in our neighborhood. I remember walking down a street in summertime, hearing noise and plates and silverware, and people talking and laughing, and thinking, That's where I want to be."

What's hanging outside his restaurant Copper pots inherited from his father. "I like to listen to them clanging against the building."

Favorite cookbook Richard Olney's Simple French Food. "I read it the way you would read 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.'"

A famous regular Dennis Hopper.

What he'd be if he weren't a chef A poet.


Featured Best New Chef Recipe

Wrede's Grilled Pizza with Grapes and Soppressata

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