soupkitchen

The triangle is a great place to live and has a lot to offer to its residence. Will working in Raleigh inhibit your chef career? No, only if you let it. Do I recommend a young Chef out of culinary school to move to Raleigh to begin exploring, laying the ground work, practicing the fundamentals he was shown at school? No Can you do well under the the area restaurants you mentioned? yes, as a former sous of Fearington I worked at other properties outside of the Triangle(NC) and I am glad I did before I moved back here. Look at the Chefs in the area and at there resumes. Very few came directly to Raleigh to start there career here. What I recommend to smogle is to make the short and long term goals to see what best fits his desires,needs and lifestlye.

I have cooked in Raleigh since I was 19, went to CIA graduated in 99, cooked in ny and the Inn at Little Washington, moved back to Raleigh and have settled here for the time being. There are some good restaurant s here and some great people to work for. However there are only so many challenges that you will find here and there are only a few places that I would recommend to lay the foundation of a young cook in addition the restaurants in Raleigh are not nearly as busy some of the other place I have worked and if your looking for line experience the busy the better. Raleigh/Durham would not be my first choice for an aspiring young Chef to work in, check a more food oriented market SF, NY, DC, LA, Atlanta, Chicago, Boston, aboard, etc...... I get very jealous when I visit these cities.