Part 1: We Chat with James Beard Award Nominee Claudette Zepeda-Wilkins

San Diego Magazine's Happy Half Hour · Aug 7, 2019 · 40m

We're taping this week's episode at Bayside Kitchen + Bar at the Hilton Garden Inn in Little Italy, which offers SoCal inspired comfort foods, craft cocktails, and a vibrant mid-century setting. This week's incredibly talented special guest is Chef Claudette Zepeda-Wilkins. She was in the running for a James Beard Award earlier this year, and was nominated as a semi-finalist for Best Chef in the West. You may notice there are two parts to this week's episode. When we first recorded with Claudette, she was still acting as executive chef at El Jardín, which has since closed. The first part of…