Chef eric ziebold biography of williams

American chef and restaurateur

Eric Ziebold (born 1972) is an American chef and restaurateur with two Michelin Star restaurants in Washington, D.C., Kinship and Métier.

He was executive chef at CityZen from 2004 to 2014, where he won several awards, including a James Beard Award.

Early years

Ziebold, who was born in Iowa, began working in restaurants as a teenager after school at Aunt Maude’s with mentor chef Matt Nichols.

Ziebold spent more time in the restaurant than in class while attending college at the University of Northern Iowa, and decided to transfer to the Culinary Institute of America. After spending some time at Wolfgang Puck's Spago in Beverly Hills, California, and Jeffrey Buben's Vidalia in Washington, D.C., in 1996 Ziebold joined Thomas Keller's The French Laundry in the Napa Valley in California, rising to the position of chef de cuisine.

Ziebold stayed at The French Laundry until 2003, when he moved briefly to New York City to open Keller's