Raised in New Orleans, 2009 F&W Best New Chef Kelly English is reinventing French-Creole standouts, like Natchitoches meat pies, at his restaurants Iris, The Second Line, and Magnolia House (in Biloxi, Mississippi).
Experience
Restaurant August and Lüke, New Orleans; La Provence, Lacombe, Louisiana
Education
English attended the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York.
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