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Angela Dimayuga
Born1985 (age 38–39)[1]
San Jose, California, U.S.[2]
EmployerStandard Hotels International
Culinary career
Cooking styleModern fusion

Angela Solita Dimayuga (born 1985)[1] is an American chef and political activist. She was an executive chef at Mission Chinese Food New York, and helped to build the restaurant in its early years.[2][3] Dimayuga was included in the Zagat's "30 Under 30" List in 2015 as an upcoming culinary star[4] and was also part of 2015 class of Eater Young Guns.[5] She was nominated for a James Beard Foundation Award in 2016 and named a 2017 Rising Star Chef for her work at Mission Chinese Food New York.[6][7] As of 2018, she worked with The Standard hotel, which opened in London in 2019.[8]

Biography

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Angela Dimayuga was born and raised in San Jose, California into a Filipino-American family. She is one of six siblings.[2] Her father and mother were born in Batangas and Pampanga, Philippines, respectively. Her parents met when her mother was touring with the Filipino national folk dance troupe.[9]

Dimayuga studied hotel and restaurant management at California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly), and humanities at University of Strathclyde and San Francisco State University (SFSU).[2]

She joined the NYC culinary scene in 2007, when she moved to Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.[citation needed] At age 22, she started as a line cook at "'Vinegar Hill House" in Brooklyn.[10][11] She credit's Vinegar Hill House's Jean Adamson as a mentor who helped launch her career.[12]

She is a multi-disciplinary food industry creative, who worked as Mission Chinese Food's executive chef in New York. She is also a contributor to Bon Appétit magazine,[13] a food stylist, media personality, and interested in the intersection of politics in her work.

In April 2018, Dimayuga was hired as creative director of food and culture for the Standard International hotel group.[8]

In light of the 2023 Israel–Hamas war, Dimayuga signed an open letter addressed to Joe Biden, President of the United States, calling for a ceasefire.[14]

Mission Chinese Food

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In 2012 she was cold-called by Danny Bowien to help open the first New York City iteration of his San Francisco restaurant, Mission Chinese Food. Dimayuga helped design the menu and interiors for Bowien's subsequent three Manhattan restaurants: Mission Chinese Food on Orchard St, Mission Cantina, and the new Mission Chinese Food (after the closure of the Orchard Street location) on East Broadway.

Dipping into her Filipino roots, Dimayuga's menu at Mission Chinese Food was what she called "New American";[3] a cuisine not simply about Asian fusion or even Asian-American, but rather, reflective of the kind of hybrid dining. At MCF, Dimayuga was not only the executive chef, but helped to contextualize the restaurant within the culture of the surrounding Lower East Side and Chinatown neighborhoods, through various artist collaborations. Dimayuga commissioned a network of creatives to design work for the restaurant and its external pop-ups and collaborations.[10] In addition, she selected musicians to play in the restaurant, as well as worked with friends and fellow artists to design a signature streetwear line for the restaurant.[15]

In late October 2017, she resigned from Mission Chinese Food claiming "[her] sphere of ambition is just different and bigger."[16]

Notable collaborations and events

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Dimayuga has worked with and created collaborations and pop-ups for La Buvette, restaurant Noma, Le Chateaubriand, Frankie's Prime Meats,[17] Dimes, Lyle's, Pok Pok, Sqirl, Night + Market, Saison, Lil' Deb's Oasis, Attica, Husk, among others.[citation needed]

  • In 2016, Dimayuga appeared on the television show Eat the World with Emeril Lagasse, as herself.[18]
  • Working with MCF's beverage director, Sam Anderson, she designed the sets for the beverage experience for Red Bull Music Academy New York's 2017 festival. Events included Fluxo: Funk Proibidão, Trade Show USA, and Sacred Bones 10 Year Anniversary.[19]
  • Working with Opening Ceremony over a number of collaborations over the years, designing "The Dip Jean,"[20] with Alex Aiku, and a dinner for Creative Time's annual benefit dinner in 2017.[21]
  • Collaborating on an insect and food-related editorial shoot with artist Anicka Yi (2016 Hugo Boss Prize Winner) for the September issue "A Magazine Curated By" Eckhaus Latta [22]
  • Working with Felix Burrichter and Michael Bullock (Editors of PIN-UP magazine), for a Design Week 2017 pop-up called "Rear View".[23]
  • In 2017, she declined to be interviewed for Ivanka Trump's website, citing her desire to be distanced from the Trump family.[24][25]
  • In 2017, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab and Dimayuga are working together on a creating fermentation boxes and related health protocols for restaurants.[26]
  • Dimayuga paired up in cooking with Dominique Crenn at the 2017 Harlem EatUp!, an annual food festival in Harlem, New York.[27]
  • She has done event work for City Harvest,[28] Tasting Table,[29] Food Book Fair and many more.
  • She has appeared the podcast on the Heritage Radio Network, Radio Cherry Bombe: Episode 87: New York's Next Wave.[30]

Awards

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Under her watch, MCF was awarded 2 stars and "Restaurant of the Year" in 2012 by The New York Times.[31] In 2015, she was named "Best Chef" by New York.[32] The James Beard Foundation named her a "rising star chef" in 2016.[33] In 2017, StarChefs publication named her one of their rising stars.[6]

In 2016, she was the keynote speaker at Restaurant noma's global, "MAD Food Symposium". Her speech, "Burning the Candle at Both Ends," focused on the maintenance of work and life balance as a chef.[34]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "The Process: Angela Dimayuga". Believer Magazine. 2018-05-01. Retrieved 2021-05-11.
  2. ^ a b c d "Angela Dimayuga, Young Guns 2015". Eater.com. 2015. Retrieved 2017-07-01.
  3. ^ a b "Why Angela Dimayuga Calls the Menu at Mission Chinese Food New American Cuisine". Vice Munchies. 2017-04-30. Retrieved 2017-07-19.
  4. ^ "The Best Young Culinary Minds: Zagat's 30 Under 30 List Is Released". The Daily Meal. Retrieved 2017-07-01.
  5. ^ "Young Guns 2015". Eater.com. Retrieved 2017-07-03.
  6. ^ a b "2017 New York City Rising Star Chef Angela Dimayuga of Mission Chinese". StarChefs. 2017-01-01. Retrieved 2017-07-02.
  7. ^ Saxena, Jaya (2017-04-11). "IvankaTrump.com Slid Into Chef Angela Dimayuga DMs and She Was Not Having It". Elle Magazine. Retrieved 2017-07-03.
  8. ^ a b Burton, Monica (2018-05-02). "Angela Dimayuga Is the New Creative Director of Food and Culture at the Standard". Eater.
  9. ^ Dimayuga, Angela; Mishan, Ligaya (2019-10-07). "Angela Dimayuga's 10 Essential Filipino Recipes". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-11-27.
  10. ^ a b Hawgood, Alex (2017-07-06). "Angela Dimayuga: Chef Behind the Wok at Mission Chinese". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-08-18.
  11. ^ Zantal-Wiener, Amanda (2016-05-27). "Meet the Most Badass Female Chefs in New York". Thrillist. Retrieved 2017-08-18.
  12. ^ "Dinner Around the World". Creative Time. Retrieved 2019-01-06.
  13. ^ Sugar, Rachel. "A Spring Fish Recipe With a Healing Herb". Bon Appetit. Retrieved 2017-08-18.
  14. ^ "Artists4Ceasefire". Artists4Ceasefire. Retrieved 2024-03-19.
  15. ^ "MASSIVE GOODS: Mission Chinese Food x MASSIVE 2.0 T-Shirt". shop.oogaboogastore.com. Retrieved 2017-08-18.
  16. ^ Tishgart, Sierra (2017-12-05). "The Chef Who Stood Up to Ivanka Trump". The Cut. Retrieved 2018-01-08.
  17. ^ "Chef Angela Dimayuga Cares Deeply About Seagram's Seltzer, Pho, and Beef Tendon". Grubstreet.com. 15 January 2016. Retrieved 17 January 2018.
  18. ^ ""Eat the World with Emeril Lagasse" Culinary Enlightenment (TV Episode 2016)", IMDb.com, retrieved 2017-07-19
  19. ^ "Red Bull Music Academy Festival New York 2017 - RBMA NYC - event - New York". Eventbu.com.
  20. ^ Allen, Emma (13 March 2017). "The Cool Kids Behind Opening Ceremony". Newyorker.com.
  21. ^ "CREATIVE TIME TO HONOR OPENING CEREMONY FOUNDERS HUMBERTO LEON AND CAROL LIM AT THEIR 2017 GALA" (PDF). Creativetime.org. Retrieved 17 January 2018.
  22. ^ "A MAGAZINE curated by Eckhaus Latta". Amagazinecuratedby.com. Retrieved 17 January 2018.
  23. ^ "With Sight Unseen Presents, We're Helping Design Week Take Over New York". Sightunseen.com. 15 May 2017. Retrieved 17 January 2018.
  24. ^ "Chef turns down interview for Ivanka Trump site with strongly worded response". SFGate. Retrieved 2017-07-03.
  25. ^ "When a queer Filipina chef said she didn't want to be featured on Ivanka Trump's website, the reaction missed the point". Public Radio International. Retrieved 2017-07-03.
  26. ^ "The five chefs to watch in 2017". Newsweek. 2016-12-31. Retrieved 2017-07-03.
  27. ^ McCart, Melissa (2017-05-12). "Harlem EatUp! Starts Next Week with Marcus Samuelsson, Dominique Crenn, and More". Eater NY. Retrieved 2017-07-03.
  28. ^ "Three Of NYC's Best Chefs Are Cooking For City Harvest Next Week". Gothamist.com. Archived from the original on 2018-01-22. Retrieved 17 January 2018.
  29. ^ "Japanese lunch with chef Angela Dimayuga". Archived from the original on 2017-08-18. Retrieved 2017-08-17.
  30. ^ "Episode 87: New York's Next Wave | Radio Cherry Bombe on acast". Acast.com. 2016-08-11. Retrieved 2017-08-18.
  31. ^ Wells, Pete (2015-06-09). "Restaurant Review: Mission Chinese Food on the Lower East Side". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-08-18.
  32. ^ "The Best New Chefs of 2015". Grub Street. Retrieved 2017-08-18.
  33. ^ "Interview with JBF Award Nominee Angela Dimayuga of Mission Chinese Food". Jamesbeard.org. Retrieved 2017-08-18.
  34. ^ Muhlke, Christine. "Our Favorite Moments from the MAD Food Symposium (One Involves Guy Fieri)". Bonappetit.com. Retrieved 2017-08-18.
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