Pat Kuleto, Culinary Entrepreneur

Pat Kuleto has established himself as a leading restaurateur through his pioneering collaborations
with some of the country’s most acclaimed chefs, including Nancy Oakes, Traci Des Jardins,
Mark Franz and Todd Humphries. Blessed with an all-encompassing sense of design that goes beyond the
details,directly to the essence of a project, Pat’s breathtaking restaurant creations have consistently
transformed the Bay Area’s world-class culinary landscape, seamlessly blending the most
inspired elements of food, wine and design.

Over the years, Pat Kuleto’s name has become synonymous with excellence. A leader in the hospitality field,
in 1999 Pat won Bon Appetit's Food and Entertaining Award for Best Designer
and was honored the following year by Time magazine as one of the “Top 100 Innovators” in its 2000
Millennium issue. For the man who claims he was born with a building permit, not a birth certificate, the
expectations for every new project run high. The driving force and culinary entrepreneur behind
several of the Bay Area’s most revered dining destinations, some of Pat's most cherished creations include: