Mark Peel

Mark Peel is the owner/Executive Chef of Campanile, a Los Angeles favorite since 1989. Campanile won the James Beard Outstanding Restaurant Award USA in 2001, and has been nominated for 3 other Beard Awards, two for service and one for wine service. Peel himself has been nominated 6 times for the James Beard Award for Best Chef California, and was named one of Food & Wine's Best New Chefs in 1990, just a year after opening Campanile. He was named CA Restaurant Association Chef of the Year in 2005, and is a two-time winner of the Southern CA Restaurant Writers Restaurateur of the Year Award. Peel's other awards for Campanile include the Nation's Restaurant News Fine Dining Award, the DiRoNA Distinguished Restaurant of North America Award, and the International Star Diamond Award for Outstanding Hospitality. A regular guest on KCRW radio, Peel was profiled on the Food Network program Into the Fire, and is the consulting L.A. chef for Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares on BBC America. He will be competing in the upcoming Top Chef Masters on Bravo.