Rising Star Chef Jason Dady of Jason Dady Restaurant Group - Biography
San Antonio, TX
Texan-born Jason Dady started out with deep roots in the hospitality industry. One set of grandparents owned a local tavern for nearly 40 years, where the young Dady learned the value of customer connections, while Dady’s maternal grandfather, Charlie Murphy, was a master butcher.
Eager to start training, Dady earned a degree in restaurant, hotel, and institutional management from Texas Tech University. To polish his cooking, Dady moved on to the California Culinary Academy in San Francisco and worked at Stars Bar and Dining. After graduating, Dady headed for Napa and the Beringer Wine Estate, taking in one of the most verdant and culinarily abundant landscapes in the country.
Back in Texas, Dady opened The Lodge Restaurant of Castle Hills in 2001, and his empire has grown steadily ever since. In 2004, Bin 555 Restaurant and Wine Bar opened, and the hits just kept on coming: Tre Trattoria, the “true Texas pit-to-table” Two Bros. BBQ Market, and an expansion of Tre Trattoria at The Fairmount Hotel in downtown San Antonio. Texas pit barbecue—and local craft beer and wine— got yet another outlet with Dady’s B&D Ice House, while the Thai-Chinese-Japanese Umai Mi allowed the James Beard semifinalist and StarChefs Rising Stars alum to play with equally bold Asian flavors. The most recent additions to the Jason Dady Restaurant Group are Shuck Shack, Range steak and seafood, and Alamo BBQ Co. He will open his first restaurant in Austin, Chispas, later this year.
2012 Austin-San Antonio Rising Stars
The Austin-San Antonio Rising Stars Winners: Why They Shine
Shaking Up the Central Texas Food Scene: Austin-San Antonio Travel
The Product: Ribs Renaissance
2012 Austin-San Antonio Rising Stars Purveyors
1st Annual StarChefs.com SMOKE@ICC
Smokin' and Drinkin': BBQ Meets Its Match
Barbecue on the Hudson: 1st Annual StarChefs.com SMOKE@ICC
Dim Sum America
5th Annual StarChefs.com Somm Slam
9th Annual StarChefs.com International Chefs Congress
Blended Burger Battle at StarChefs Congress

Rising Star Chef Jason Dady
@chefjasondady- Jason Dady Restaurant Group
San Antonio, TX
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