Chris is a chef, restaurateur, and television personality best known as a Judge on Food Network’s long-running hit series, Chopped as well as Chopped Jr. Chris introduced the world to his unique brand of communal dining in 2005 with his debut restaurant, The Stanton Social and in 2010, he welcomed hotspot Beauty & Essex to the Lower East Side of New York City. Most recently, Chris unveiled Vandal celebrating the art, architecture, and food of global street culture from New York to Vietnam to Barcelona and beyond, as well as the history and culture of the restaurant’s Lower East Side location.
