Stephanie Cmar Biography – Stephanie Cmar Wiki
Stephanie Cmar is an American private chef and was a competitor on three seasons of Top Chef. She became a finalist in Top Chef: All-Stars L.A. Her first restaurant job was at age 15 at the Muffin Shop in Marblehead, Massachusetts. She has worked at several restaurants including B&G Oysters, Stir, and at Barbara Lynch’s flagship restaurant, No.9 Park, as a sous-chef. She left No.9 Park in 2014 to operate the pop-up donut shop, Stacked Donuts. Together with Justin Burke-Samson, they operated a catering company and pop-up called Party of Two. Party of Two toured the US in 2014. In 2015, she became the executive chef at Fairsted Kitchen in Boston. From June 2015 to February 2016, she was the executive chef of Fairsted Kitchen in Boston. She Left Fairsted to return to being a private chef.
She initially participated in the qualifying rounds on the first episode of season 10 of Top Chef alongside her culinary school colleague Kristen Kish, who ultimately won the season. She was not chosen to move on into the competition. She was invited back to compete in Top Chef: New Orleans and placed seventh after a controversial elimination in which the worst-performing chef of the challenge could not be eliminated that round due to him having won immunity earlier in the episode. She was invited to return again for season 17, Top Chef: All-Stars L.A. and was often termed as the underdog of that season. She made it to the finals in All-Stars L.A., but in the end, lost to Melissa King.
In 2020, she launched a mini online cooking show on her Instagram called, “My Shitty Little Kitchen”, produced by Brian Pu Ruiz. She is a 2007 graduate of Johnson & Wales University.
Stephanie Cmar Age
She was born on April 25, 1985, in the United States.
Stephanie Cmar Husband
She is married to her husband, David Cavilla. The couple got married on November 11, 2018. In December 2020, Cmar and her husband moved from Boston to Maine.
Stephanie Cmar Family
Cmar has two brothers, Colton and Wyatt. She is the eldest of the three. In 2018, her brother Colton died from a drug overdose. She spoke openly about her brother’s death in Top Chef: All-Stars L.A. and said the first course of her finale meal was inspired by him.
Stephanie Cmar Instagram
She is active on her Instagram account @stephaniecmar.
