Chef Waree

A Dream Cooked to Life

From a tiny café in Southern Thailand to a chef's line in West Nyack — Waree's path to her own kitchen.

• Southern Thailand · Age 8

  Washing towers of dishes, scrubbing floors, trimming mountains of morning-market vegetables — little Waree lived inside her parents' café. Each chore was a lesson, each aroma a promise that one day the kitchen would be hers.

• Corporate Detour

  HR files, accounting ledgers, fluorescent lights. Good jobs — yet every lunch break she sketched menus in the margins of meeting notes, certain a cubicle could never contain her creativity.

• Nov 2015 · Pearl River Pop-Up

  A five-foot cooking line in the back of a neighborhood bar became her laboratory. One sizzling wok, thirty adventurous regulars, and a tidal wave of word-of-mouth proved the dream could pay its own rent.

• Rockland Grub · West Nyack

  Today she writes every recipe, fires every sauce, and greets guests by name. The little girl from Southern Thailand runs the kitchen she once imagined — and invites you to "Get Your Grub On."

If you can Wok it, you can cook it! — Chef Waree

What We Stand For

Three principles guide every dish that leaves our kitchen.