Roy Choi from Kogi BBQ Aspen Food & Wine Fest 2010
Born
Roy S Choi
(1970-02-24) February 24, 1970 (age 54)
Seoul, South Korea
Education
Culinary Institute of America California State University, Fullerton Southern California Military Academy
Culinary career
Current restaurant(s)
Kogi Korean BBQ
Best Friend (Park MGM, The Strip)
LocoL (food truck)
Television show(s)
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown
The Chef Show
Ugly Delicious
Broken Bread
Website
kogibbq.com
Roy Choi (born February 24, 1970)[1] is a Korean-American chef who gained prominence as the creator of the gourmet Korean-Mexican taco truck Kogi.[2][3][4][5] Choi is a chef who is celebrated for "food that isn't fancy" and is known as one of the founders of the gourmet food truck movement.[6] In 2019, Choi began presenting a cooking series on Netflix with Jon Favreau titled The Chef Show.
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^Bruno, Antoinette (March 1, 2010). "Rising Stars: Community Award Winner Chef Roy Choi". StarChefs. Retrieved June 19, 2013.
^McLaughlin, Katy (January 15, 2010). "The King of the Streets Moves Indoors". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved June 19, 2013.
^"The 2011 Time 100 Poll: Time 100 Candidates: Roy Choi". Time. April 4, 2011. Archived from the original on April 7, 2011. Retrieved June 19, 2013.
^Goodyear, Dana (May 10, 2012). "Vegetable State of Mind: Roy Choi". The New Yorker. Retrieved June 19, 2013.
^Gross, Terry (November 7, 2013). "Roy Choi's Tacos Channel LA And The Immigrant Experience" (mp3). Fresh Air. NPR. Transcript of episode. Retrieved May 13, 2014.
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original on December 1, 2011. Retrieved February 25, 2012. Choi, Roy. "L.A. Son – RoyChoi, Tien Nguyen". Harpercollins.com. Archived from the original...
recognition, including a Bon Appétit Award in 2009 and "Best New Chef" for RoyChoi by Food & Wine in 2010, the first for a food truck. After several weeks...
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co-host and executive produce a cooking show for Netflix along with co-host RoyChoi, called The Chef Show. It premiered in June 2019. In December 2021, Favreau...
Chicago and Missouri by 2023. In April 2010, Food & Wine magazine named RoyChoi, the chef of the original Kogi's, one of its annual "Best New Chefs". It...
Locol (also stylized as Loco’l and LocoL) was a restaurant founded by RoyChoi and Daniel Patterson. The name connoted both "local" and "loco". The restaurant...
tried for 10 years to bring the chain to one of its Strip resorts. Chef RoyChoi opened Best Friend, his first Las Vegas restaurant, at the end of 2018...
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Angeles. Another is the Korean kogi burrito, invented by American chef RoyChoi, the first to combine Mexican and Korean cuisines. The kogi burrito was...
It, and another Netflix series The Chef Show, produced by his friends RoyChoi and Jon Favreau. In 2019, he produced a Netflix original titled "Breakfast...
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League (IFL) alongside RoyChoi, who also owns the IFL's Cedar Rapids River Kings and San Diego Strike Force. Introduced to Choi by his brother Davonte...
Television special Dear Class of 2020 Selena + Chef Episode: "Selena + RoyChoi" The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Impact x Nightline on Hulu 2022 Episode:...
November 2008 to the national stage eighteen months later. According to Chef RoyChoi (of Kogi Korean BBQ fame), sundubu-jjigae was a dish developed by Korean...
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