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Chef · Puget Sound · OG

Devon Farina

Twenty-five years in professional kitchens. Cooking for people who care where their food comes from, and how it got here.

Booking tastings·Open to restaurant offers
25+ years cookingBothell, WA · 30 mi radius172K on @mybestintentions1,247 followers here
OG MentorChef Test · Passed

About

I started cooking professionally at seventeen and never stopped. Line cook, sous, head — and eventually private events, where the whole meal is one table and every course is personal. The stakes feel higher at four seats than four hundred, and I like them that way.

My food is Pacific Northwest by geography and mongrel by influence. I lean on what's actually growing here right now, and I don't dress a plate for the camera before it goes to the guest. If it doesn't taste like something, no amount of tweezed microgreens will save it.

These days I split time between private tastings around the Puget Sound and building this platform, which exists because it should have existed twenty years ago. If you're a foodie looking for the chef you'll be bragging about in three years, set up a tasting. If you're a venue with a dark Monday and a curiosity about what a full room looks like on a night you'd otherwise be closed, let's talk.

Experience

Verified by peer endorsement
2019 – now
Personal chef · private tastings + events
Puget Sound region · Bothell, WA
2014 – 2019
Head chef · contemporary Pacific Northwest
Seattle bistro · 60 seats · farm-driven menu
2010 – 2014
Sous chef · steakhouse
Bellevue, WA · high-volume dry-aged program
2005 – 2010
Line + station cook · grill, sauté, garde manger
Multiple Seattle restaurants
2000 – 2005
Cook · from the bottom up
First real kitchens · learned by getting yelled at

Timeline

Auto-tracked · reverse-chron
Aug 2026
Approaching 1,247 followers on FindLocalChefs
Jul 2026
Second pop-up — Ballard, sold out in 6 hours
Jun 2026
First pop-up — Fremont, 32 seats sold
May 2026
Crossed 100 followers on the platform
Apr 2026
Chef Test passed
Mar 2026
Joined as OG

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