Adam Shapiro
Seems in: a number of episodes
Shapiro wears many hats in his profession as an actor and pretzelmaker (together with making pretzels on the Oscars final yr). In The Bear, he seems as a supervisor for the fictional fine-dining restaurant Ever, working with chef Terry (Olivia Colman). He makes an attempt to poach Sydney from The Bear.
The Closing Dinner
Within the season finale, Ever hosts a ultimate dinner earlier than it closes its doorways. That dinner brings collectively a star-studded group of cooks and restaurateurs alongside Carmy and Sydney. This culinary cohort opines on Ever’s (fictional) previous and the (actual life) way forward for the trade.
Grant Achatz
Achatz operates Alinea in Chicago. As soon as the sous chef at The French Laundry, Achatz immediately focuses on molecular gastronomy with Alinea’s multi-course tasting menu. He has additionally frolicked at Charlie Trotter’s and Trio, each within the Chicago space. Within the season finale, he has a protracted dialog with pastry chef Luca (Will Poulter) about Achatz’s extra uncommon culinary creations.
Wylie Dufresne
Dufresne began his profession working for Jean-Georges Vongeritchen, turning into sous chef at Jean Georges. He’s greatest identified for his now-closed restaurant WD-50 in Manhattan, and his eating places have been awarded accolades from the James Beard Basis, New York Journal, and Meals & Wine. Nowadays, he’s the proprietor of New York Metropolis’s Stretch Pizza, the place he blends basic pizzas with creative and New York-inspired flavors.
Christina Tosi
Created the dessert program at David Chang’s Momofuku, then based bakery chain Milk Bar in 2008. Her cereal milk-flavored sweets arguably outline her pastry profession, however in The Bear’s season finale, she regales the gathering of cooks with tales of dishes she made early in her profession. (She labored on the now closed WD-50 earlier than becoming a member of Chang.)
Kevin Boehm
A former bartender turned restaurateur, Kevin Boehm opened his first restaurant in 1993. Right now, his James Beard Award-winning Boka Restaurant Group oversees 22 eating places throughout the nation. Boehm can also be a author whose memoir, The Bottomless Cup, comes out subsequent yr. He co-founded the Unbiased Restaurant Coalition, a commerce group based through the pandemic to foyer for help for eating places and their workers. Within the season finale, Boehm discusses the struggles and stresses of the enterprise with Carmy.
Anna Posey
One other hometown chef, Posey owns Chicago restaurant Elske along with her husband David. (We named Elske on our Greatest New Eating places listing in 2017.) She was additionally previously the top pastry chef of The Publican in Chicago.
Rosio Sanchez
The Chicago-born Sanchez labored because the pastry chef at Dufresne’s WD-50 earlier than transferring to Copenhagen, the place she constructed her profession because the pastry chef at Noma. Right now, her eating places Sanchez and Hija de Sanchez, each in Copenhagen, mix conventional Mexican flavors with Nordic elements.
Malcolm Livingston II
Livingston II’s resume primarily lists the world’s greatest eating places: Le Cirque, Per Se, WD-50, Noma. However lately, the Bronx-born pastry chef is engaged on one thing completely different—August Novelties, a non-dairy ice cream model. The Bear creator Christopher Storer says that Livingston’s stint as Noma’s pastry chef impressed the character of Marcus (performed by Lionel Boyce).
Will Guidara
The one-time power behind names like Eleven Madison Park and NoMad, with places in New York, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas. He and his former enterprise associate, Daniel Humm, co-wrote 4 books—considered one of which (entitled Unreasonable Hospitality) seems in season two, episode seven. He’s married to fellow cameo-maker Christina Tosi.
Genie Kwon
The pastry chef at Chicago’s two Michelin-starred Oriole restaurant. Kwon has labored in Boston, New York (together with at Nobu Fifty Seven and Eleven Madison Park), Singapore, and Chicago. She hails from New Orleans.
