Todd English Bio Wiki Age Wife Figs Bluezoo Restaurants and Net Worth
Todd English is an American celebrity chef, restaurateur, author, and television personality living in Boston, Massachusetts. He hosted the TV cooking show, Food Trip on PBS. In 2005, Todd was a judge on the PBS show Cooking Under Fire.
His life and career received a chapter in Super Chef by Juliette Rossant who had written previously about English for the Forbes Celebrity 100 list. Todd also works as lead chef for Delta Air Lines (US). His first restaurant, Olives, opened in the Charlestown neighborhood of Boston in April 1989.
Todd was born on August 29, 1960, in Amarillo, Texas,United States. He is61 years old.
He is a man of average stature and stands at a height of5 ft 7 in(Approx.1.70 m).
He was born in Amarillo, Texas to his motherPatrizia Arcuni-English, and his father. Todd grew up in Sandy Springs, Georgia, and later Branford, Connecticut. He has a sister namedWendy. He holds an American nationality and belongs to mixed ethnicity.
Todd was married toOlivia Disch. She was his classmate at the Culinary Institute of America, but they divorced. Together, they share three childrenOliver, Isabelle,andSimon. Todd was engaged toErica Wangin 2009 but the wedding was called off.
He attended Guilford College in North Carolina on a baseball scholarship. Later, Todd quit and entered the Culinary Institute of America in 1978 and graduated in 1982. He worked under Jean-Jacques Rachou at New York’s La Cote Basque and then moved to Italy to work at several restaurants there.
Todd returned to the United States at age 25 and served as the executive chef of the Italian restaurant Michela’s in Cambridge, Massachusetts for three years before opening the original Olives restaurant in 1989.
Figs is the name of two pizzerias in the Boston area, one in the Beacon Hill neighborhood and another in Charlestown. It offers authentic, Neapolitan-style pizzas with very thin crusts, served on inverted sheet pans, as well as salads and pasta. Figs won the “Hot Concept” award from Nation’s Restaurant News magazine.
BlueZoo is Todd’s restaurant at the Walt Disney World Dolphin Hotel in Orlando, Florida. Some of his other restaurants include:
The Beast Bonfire Da Campo Osteria Fig’s at The Macys Plaza Food Hall Figs at 29 Fair Tuscany Ember Room Taylor Sine’s Pool Noodle House MXDC The Food Hall
Kitchen Cookware Sets Pots & Pans Skillets Omelet Pans Stockpots Woks & Stir-Fry Pans Chef’s Pans Saucepans Home & Kitchen
Todd’s first restaurant, Olives, opened in the Charlestown neighborhood of Boston in April 1989. The restaurant’s name is a tribute to his then-wife, Olivia. The food is “rustic Mediterranean,” with a strong influence from Italian cuisine. The restaurant was named Best New Restaurant by Boston magazine and has been honored as Best Food and Top Table by Gourmet magazine.
Olives are known for two signature desserts, a molten chocolate cake and a vanilla bean soufflé which must be ordered with the main meal. In February 2013, Olives opened in Mexico City. The remaining Olives are the Atlantis Resort on Paradise Island in Nassau, Bahamas, and the Ritz-Carlton Canal in Abu Dhabi. In 2021, Olives opened in Virgin Hotels Las Vegas.
In October 1998, Olives opened in the Bellagio hotel in Las Vegas. It closed in 2019. In 2021, Olives opened in Virgin Hotels Las Vegas. Other restaurants in Las Vegas include The Beast at AREA15 in Las Vegas, Nevada, P.U.B in the Aria Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, and The Pepper Club in the downtown Las Vegas Arts District.
He earns his wealth from his career, therefore, he has amassed a fortune over the years. Todd’s net worth is $18.5 million and he is the 9th highest earning chef in the world as of 2020.
