Gabrielle Quiñónez Denton
Affiliation
OX Restaurant
Co-owner and chef of Ox Restaurant, Portland, Oregon (opened April 2012)
i. Biography
Gabrielle Quiñónez Denton is a James Beard Award-winning chef and co-owner of Ox Restaurant in Portland, Oregon, which opened in April 2012 and specializes in wood-fired cooking and Argentine-inspired cuisine. Born and raised in Los Angeles, she developed her culinary passion during childhood summers in Ecuador's Andean highlands, where her grandmother Rosario Albuja taught her traditional Ecuadorian dishes including empanadas, guatita, and yaguarlocro. She graduated with honors from the California Culinary Academy in San Francisco in 1999 and was named one of Food & Wine Magazine's Best New Chefs in 2014 alongside her husband Greg Denton. In 2017, she and Greg won the James Beard Foundation Award for Best Chef: Northwest.
The Archive
Selected Works & Focus Areas
Focus 01
Co-owner and chef of Ox Restaurant, Portland, Oregon (opened April 2012)
Focus 02
Wood-fired cooking and Argentine-inspired cuisine
Focus 03
James Beard Award for Best Chef: Northwest (2017)
Focus 04
Food & Wine Magazine Best New Chef (2014)
Focus 05
Signature dish: smoked beef tongue with ensalada Rusa
Focus 06
Co-author of cookbook 'Around the Fire' (2016)
Focus 07
Ecuadorian culinary heritage and family recipes