ebbie Gold is a James Beard-winning chef who was the only person in her family passionate about food and cooking. While still in high school, the Chicago native surprised her parents, when she subscribed to Bon Appetit and began creating impressive meals for the family. Such early endeavors certainly paid off.

Gold went on to study restaurant management at the University of Illinois, and then attended L'Ecole Hoteliere de Tain L'Hermitage in France's Rhone Valley. After graduation, she apprenticed for a period of two years at Michelin-starred French restaurants including Michel Chabran, Albert LeCompt, Jean Marc Reynaud and Le Gourmandin. When she returned to Chicago in 1987, she got a job at the world-renowned Charlie Trotter's. There she spent several years working her way through each cook position. Then in 1989 Gold decided to return to France to help run the restaurant of a good friend. She worked as an executive chef at L'Albion in Nice for two years. After moving back to Chicago in 1991, Gold was the pastry chef at Everest and then executive chef at Mirador until 1994.

When Gold learned that Kansas City's American Restaurant was in need of a new chef, she jumped at the chance. Her culinary enthusiasm paid off and she secured the position. Chef Debbie Gold rejevenated the 25-year-old restaurant, stripping away the pretension that had marred its image, while still maintaining Mobil four-star and AAA four-diamond status. Esquire named her "Chef to Watch" in 1997, the same year she received the first of three nominations for James Beard Foundation Best Chef: Midwest. In 1999, Gold won! (At a time that the award still included the chefs in Chicago - no longer the case...)


Lunch:
Monday - Friday:
11:00am - 2:00pm

Dinner:
Monday - Thursday:
5:00pm - 10:00pm,
Friday - Saturday:
5:00pm - 11:00pm,
Sunday:
5:00pm - 9:00pm