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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
American — northwestFrench — bistroItalian — northern
25+ years cookingBothell, WA · 30 mi radius172K on @mybestintentionsMember since August 2026
OG MentorChef Test · Passed
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About

I started cooking when I was 15 years old. I worked as a production chef at a college. My workload was massive, and I didn't know it. Our kitchen was comprised of a whole bunch of older epic chefs. Each one wanted to teach me something different. They worked on my knife skills andmy sauces competitively. They always tried to teach me something that the other one hadn't taught me yet. I learned that hard work it is often unnoticed, but if you're doing it to get noticed then it's not going to be good work. The kitchen is about proving to myself that I belong in there. I think that it is one of the purist types of work there is. Food is something everyone needs, but when it's made just right, it can bring people together and it can be a Time Machine back to some of the best memories of your life. I hope that I can help build a Time Machine for people.

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

Newest at the top
Jul 2026
Second pop-up — Ballard, filled in 6 hours
Jun 2026
First pop-up — Fremont, 32 seats filled
Apr 2026
Chef Test passed
Mar 2026
Joined as OG

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