Stars (restaurant)

Stars (restaurant)

Stars was a landmark restaurant in San Francisco, California from 1984 through 1999. Along with Spago and Chez Panisse it is considered the birthplaces of California Cuisine, New American cuisine, and the institution of the celebrity chef.

History

Chef Jeremiah Tower, former chef of Chez Panisse, opened Stars in 1984, together with investors from Berkeley's Fourth Street Grill and Santa Fe Bar and Grill. With an opulent interior, a busy open kitchen, and an unabashed preference for socialites and celebrities, Stars and its pioneering approach to food and dining became an instant sensation. cite news | author=Kim Severson | Publisher=San Francisco Chronicle | title= The rise and fall of a star: How the king of California Cuisine lost an empire | date= September 29, 1999| url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1999/09/29/FD52895.DTL]

The restaurant was among the top-grossing restaurants in the United States for years. Tower opened branches of Stars restaurant in Oakville (Napa Valley), Palo Alto, Manila, and Singapore. He opened The Peak Cafe in Hong Kong in the 1990s, as well as various related ventures in San Francisco including a more casual cafe and an upscale bistro next door, another Stars on Van Ness Avenue, and a kitchenware shop . The side ventures all failed, and by the late 1990s the flagship restaurant was losing money rapidly, unable to attract enough diners to support its high operations cost. [cite news | url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1998/06/11/BU78748.DTL|publisher=San Francisco Chornicle|date=June 11, 1998|title=Jeremiah Tower Sells Part Stake in Stars] Stars closed for business in late 1999, after which a "bittersweet" Tower declared that he was done with California..

After Tower's departure the restaurant was reopened briefly in by new investors under the same name but with a less expensive, Mediterranean concept. [cite news | title=Fernandez to Don the Chef's Toque at New Stars | date=September 29, 1999 | url = http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1999/09/29/FD48875.DTL | author=Kim Severson | publisher=San Francisco Chronicle ] In 2004 it became the new location of San Francisco's Trader Vic's, which had been closed since 1994. The Palo Alto location of Stars became a branch of Wolfgang Puck's Spago Restaurant in 1997. Steve Ells, founder of Chipotle Mexican Grill, served for two years as a sous-chef under Jeremiah Towercite news
url=http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/23632
title=Steve Ells Profile
publisher=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Marlene Parrish, June 04, 2007] at Stars.

Chefs who worked at Stars

Stars launched the careers of some of the Bay Area's most renowned chefs, some of whom have gone on to international fame. Among the Stars alumni are:

* Joey Altman (Bay Cafe television program, Wild Hare restaurant)
* Mario Batali (Entertainment personality, Food Network)
* Steve Ells (founder and CEO of Chipotle Mexican Grill)
* Mark Franz (Farallon)
* Tim Grable (pastry chef, One Market and Fifth Floor)
* Loretta Keller (Chef-owner, Bizou / Coco500),
* Emily Luchetti (pastry chef, Farallon)
* Jerry Traunfeld
* Clark Frasier and Mark Gaier (Chefs/Owners of Arrows Restaurant - Ogunquit, ME)

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