A beautiful love story! Love of food, Love of family and Love of country. I’m kind of late to the game on this film. I watched it on my Virgin America flight returning from a Labor Day retreat at Mount Shasta, California. An uplifting, creative, and fun film for a change… A wonderful escape, especially at this time of dark global events unfolding now on the planet. This film restores your confidence in the human condition and reminds us all of the great American spirit of creative capitalism with integrity! Still showing at the Angelica. Go see it and take your family, especially your kids.

Chef is a 2014 American comedy film written, produced, directed by, and starring Jon Favreau. Favreau plays a professional chef who, after a public altercation with a food critic, quits his job at a popular Los Angeles restaurant and returns to his home town of Miami to fix up a food truck. He reconnects with his ex-wife and invites their young son to join him in driving the truck back to L.A. while selling Cubanos in various cities along the way.

Favreau wrote the script after directing several big-budget films, wanting to go “back to basics” and to create a film about cooking Food truck owner and chef Roy Choi served as a co-producer and oversaw all of the menus and food prepared for the film.