Preeti Mistry

Chef

San Francisco

Chef Preeti Mistry is honored to have been twice nominated by the James Beard Foundation as "Best Chef of the West". They were the Co-Founder & Exec Chef of Navi Kitchen and Juhu Beach Club (both closed) as well as the co-author (with Sarah Henry) of The Juhu Beach Club Cookbook. Born in London and raised in the US, Preeti held Exec Chef roles at the deYoung Musuem in San Francisco and Google HQ in Mountain View, CA. They were a contestant on Top Chef Season 6. Preeti has been featured in numerous publications including Food & Wine Magazine, NY Times, Time Magazine, Bon Appetit, SF Chronicle, Wall Street Journal, Sunset Magazine, Vogue India, Eater in addition to Anthony Bourdain’s PARTS UNKNOWN on CNN. Since the pandemic, Preeti and their wife Ann Nadeau have been living in the Russian River, Sonoma County, California. They have been making the best of it hiking in the redwoods, making lots of pizza and working on a local regenerative farm.

Photo Credit: Alanna Hale